Contact is a story of a scientist who receives a transmission from space and then tries to decipher its contents. The information received turns out to be schematics of a machine that will transport one person through space to the star Vega. It takes a coalition of quite a few countries to fund and birth the project.
The film ends with the main character, Ellie, traveling to see the aliens in the machine. The machine travels through wormholes. The part I found interesting was that the Vegans said they didn’t create the portals and that they didn’t know who did which means that there is even more sentient life out there.
When we watched Contact in class, I found myself way more into the movie than I ever have been. I’ve seen the movie on tv countless times but never before have I focused in on every detail of the film. I liked how they incorporated the theory of special relativity into the movie, it makes it feel more possible. Maybe that's it, the reason I was so into this movie was because we learned about the science used in it beforehand. On another note, the radical evangelical that blows up the first machine creeps me out.. big time. I think it's important, however, that there was a religious theme throughout the film because if this were to actually happen, I could see there being a lot of religious protest as seen in the movie.
The film ends with the main character, Ellie, traveling to see the aliens in the machine. The machine travels through wormholes. The part I found interesting was that the Vegans said they didn’t create the portals and that they didn’t know who did which means that there is even more sentient life out there.
When we watched Contact in class, I found myself way more into the movie than I ever have been. I’ve seen the movie on tv countless times but never before have I focused in on every detail of the film. I liked how they incorporated the theory of special relativity into the movie, it makes it feel more possible. Maybe that's it, the reason I was so into this movie was because we learned about the science used in it beforehand. On another note, the radical evangelical that blows up the first machine creeps me out.. big time. I think it's important, however, that there was a religious theme throughout the film because if this were to actually happen, I could see there being a lot of religious protest as seen in the movie.
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