Jeremy Renner as Ian Donnelly and Amy Adams as Louise Banks in the film Arrival. Jan Thijs/Paramount Pictures hide caption toggle caption Jan Thijs/Paramount Pictures Opinion 13.7: Cosmos And Culture The 'Arrival' Of The Heptapods: Time Holds The Key To Everything November 23, 2016 Arrival speaks to all of us, making us think about where we are in life and what we've been doing with the time we have — confronting us at the individual and collective level, says Marcelo Gleiser.