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Don't read too much into it.
Anyway, what I liked about the movie...
It's the kind of sci-fi that I like, grounded in some semblance of reality.
The way that the "aliens" chose to communicate is highly plausible. Mathematics is a universal constant so to speak.
Jodie Foster was excellent. I loved how she was always in her element as a scientist yet appeared pretty geeky and unsure everytime she was with Matthew Mac-whatever-ey's character. It's subtle but you pick it up. She played the driven scientist very very well. Tom Skerrit was excellently cast and did a great job of infuriating me through out the film. That said, you still felt bad when he died the way he did, because you realize that no matter WHO had gone up, a great opportunity had passed us by.
The "impedence mismatch" between religion and science was a very central theme and was very, very well done. The movie didn't preach either way and it was up to you to draw your own conclusions. Jodie Fosters character so believed in the scientific process that even when
she had the opportunity to realize her dreams by "blaspheming" so to speak, she just couldn't. Interesting juxtaposition of science and religious zealotry right there I thought.
The whole space travel scene consistently gives me goose bumps, ever since I was a kid I've dreamed about what a trip into space aboard some alien spacecraft would be like, and so far to me, Contact is the only film that makes me go "yeah, I bet it would be something like that".
Lots of subtle things I loved about the movie. Our arrogance as mankind and how destructive it is was easily captured in the scene where she freed herself from her harness aboard the space craft. That to me was pretty powerful stuff (Though I always secretly wished she'd gotten up to get a cross rather than a compass. I can sort of see why they did it, but it would have been that much more powerful IMO). The long sweeping shot of all the different groups of people that had gathered in the desert, from Indians, to religious cults, to Nazis...I thought it was both hilarious as well as a commentary on how Jodies character was really no different from them, in that they were all looking for some sort of justification of their belief systems. Thats why they were ALL there.
Only thing that sucked was the S R Hadden character. He was a bit too over the top for me.
All in all, it's my personal favorite Sci-Fi film ever, until yall recommend something I should go see that'll change my mind.
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