A fascinating post featuring a comparison of Meadow Merrill’s recently published memoir Redeeming Ruth with the movie Arrival (2016) starring Amy Adams. Read on for some beautiful insights into how these two creative pieces relate to and draw meaning out of one another. However, be warned: there are spoilers for both works!
[Warning – this post contains spoilers for the 2016 movie Arrival and the brand new memoir Redeeming Ruth.]
Is it better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all?
I finally watched Arrival, the award-winning, thought-provoking alien movie, starring Amy Adams as a linguist who saves the world.
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In the beginning of the movie there’s a montage of Louise (Amy Adams’ character) and Hannah, her cherished child who becomes very ill and dies. Later we find out Louise is remembering/forseeing her child, and her fate, before she even becomes pregnant. She chooses the relationship that will create her daughter, and to bear and love her fully, even though she knows the the suffering and loss that lies ahead.
©Paramount Pictures
I had just finished Meadow Rue Merrill’s powerful new book, Redeeming Ruth:Everything Life Takes, Love Restores. I couldn’t help weaving both stories together as I watched
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