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Comments on Contact
Adapted from Carl Sagan's fine novel of the same name, 'Contact'
is pretty true to the book - a fairly rare thing in movies.
It's a beautiful film, which is as thoughtful and moving as the
book was. Jodie Foster puts in a nice, sensitive performance as
Dr. Ellie Arroway. - Paul Rance.
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Review
The opening and closing moments of Robert (Forrest Gump)
Zemeckis's Contact astonish viewers with the sort of
breathtaking conceptual imagery one hardly ever sees in movies
these days--each is an expression of the heroine's lifelong quest
(both spiritual and scientific) to explore the meaning of human
existence through contact with extraterrestrial life. The movie
begins by soaring far out into space, then returns dizzyingly to
earth until all the stars in the heavens condense into the
sparkle in one little girl's eye. It ends with that same girl as
an adult (Jodie Foster)--her search having taken her to places
beyond her imagination--turning her gaze inward and seeing the
universe in a handful of sand. Contact traces the journey
between those two visual epiphanies. Based on Carl Sagan's novel,
Contact is exceptionally thoughtful and provocative for a
big-budget Hollywood science fiction picture, with elements that
recall everything from 2001 to The Right Stuff.
Foster's solid performance (and some really incredible alien
hardware) keep viewers interested, even when the story skips and
meanders, or when the halo around the golden locks of rising-star-of-a-different-kind
Matthew McConaughey (as the pure-Hollywood-hokum love interest)
reaches Milky Way-level wattage. Ambitious, ambiguous,
pretentious, unpredictable--Contact is all of these things
and more. Much of it remains open to speculation and
interpretation but whatever conclusions one eventually draws, Contact
deserves recognition as a rare piece of big-budget studio
film making on a personal scale. --Jim Emerson
Contact Synopsis
A young woman who firmly believes in extra terrestrial life,
receives a message from outer space. Decoded the message reveals
the instructions on how to build a transporter.
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