The Arrival Review

The Arrival that best describes a notion that storytelling can be reduced to the barebones of a single element, that being visual information alone. The Arrival tells the hero's journey that of a father leaving his family behind from his home country to settle and grow a new one in a alien foreign land.
With different customs, technology, biodiversity and social constructs he becomes increasingly confound in his new environment. What best keeps the single element to a visual is that with written language found on signs, written paper and so on is all written words in this worlds dialect are non readable for us viewers giveing us and the main character a shared commonality of confusion in this new environment.  Now although the majority of the book is followed in this format, it is especially effective when following the characters plight on identifying with his new world. Only when the character seems to be halfway identifying with the new world the time elapsed seems to transition though winter that indicates that he was been there for months when his wife and daughter arrives too. The story is best represented that the reader and the character share the experience of confusion and non identification of this new world though the lack of words given in the entire story except the only indication though the title itself.