This chapter examines the multiple ways in which the film Arrival is a philosophical investigation into the nature and progress of interpretation and, more broadly, of the step-by-step processes we undergo to more fully understand each other. Much like coming to an awareness of the grammar of our first language by learning the grammar of a second language, we can learn a good deal from this film about our placement in time and the often-unappreciated role that our language plays in determining such placements. We see here what it means to have experiences shaped by language and within our temporal placement that seem nevertheless to carry us, at least psychologically, into the past, thus making that past in its distinctive way present. And we can also see, through a consideration of the way that the unspoken verbal implications carried within what we explicitly say can inform us of what will be, or what is possible, in the future. At first in this chapter, we will see the extreme differences between the aliens’ life across time and ours in time, but later in the chapter some perhaps surprising commonalities will emerge that can reveal the extent to which we in psychological experience are perhaps not as temporally bounded as we might initially have thought. The interpretation of the aliens—the working out of a description of another way of living with time—is an interpretation of the radically other that then creates the space for a reinterpretation of ourselves.