PaulMemoli — 9 years ago(November 11, 2016 01:53 PM)

That's right. Amy Adams comes to share something unique with Kurt Vonnegut Jr's Billy Pilgrim. They both become "unstuck in time" due to the involvement of extraterrestrials.
And that, my friends, is the key to understanding this film.
With Billy Pilgrim, it was something done to him in the film SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE
Amy Adam's character was educated into it by learning the alien's language.
Her experience in being given the alien's language is what opens up her sense of time. It is an attempt on the film maker's part to answer the question: does learning a new language rewire the brain?
http://sapir.psych.wisc.edu/papers/scudellari2016.pdf
Can learning a language rewire
your brain?
As our species evolved parts of our brainexpanded, resulting in more computing
power for language. Its what makes us hard-wired for communication. What is
perhaps more surprising is how language can shape our brains throughout our lives.
Most of the evidence for this comes from studies of people who are bilingual.
Brain scan studies show that switching between two languages triggers different
patterns of brain activity compared with speaking in one language, particularly in the prefrontal cortex. That part of the brain, at the very front of our skulls, is involved in organising and acting on information, including using working memory, reasoning and planning. Other studies show that
bilinguals are faster at getting to grips with a new language.
Quadrilinguist Arturo Hernandez,
director of the Laboratory for the Neural
Bases of Bilingualism at the University of
Houston in Texas, says these differences
could reflect differences in the architecture
of bilingual brains. In other words, learning
another language could change how your
brain is wired. It would make sense, if you
have had this very different linguistic
experience, to see some sort of stable
long-lasting effect, Hernandez says

Just as every cop is a criminal, And all the sinners, saints. As heads is tails Just call me Lucifer