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chinese
china
flashback
girl
father daughter relationship
alien
ufo
helicopter
memory
alien contact
space
wine
computer
military officer
colonel
u.s. soldier
language barrier
extraterrestrial
reminiscence
escalation
based on short story
title at the end
contamination
disease
militarism
physicist
hazmat suit
seeing the future
absent father
linguist
montana
female scientist
baby girl
first contact
kid art
low gravity
bird in a cage
first person narration
begins with narration
breaking news
chinese army officer
cowgirl costume
decontamination
foresight
international relations
linguistics
military aggression
news channel
palindrome
reference to abbott and costello
reference to the united nations
reference to the university of california at berkeley
sanskrit
theoretical physicist
death
flash forward
one word title
nonlinear timeline
voice over narration
husband wife relationship
montage
death of daughter
spacecraft
mother daughter relationship
no opening credits
threat