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| Rated: PG-13 |
2001 |
Color |
120 minutes |
| Starring:
Jena Malone, David Morse, Jodie Foster, Geoffrey Blake, William Fichtner, Sami Chester, Timothy McNeil, Laura Elena Surillo, Matthew McConaughey, Palmer Joss, Tom Skerritt |
| Directed
by: Robert Zemeckis |
| Written
by: Carl Sagan (novel)
- Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (story), James V. Hart, Michael Goldenberg (screenplay) |
| Music:
Alan Silvestri |
| Movie
Co.: South Side Amusement Company, Warner Bros. |
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The
Point of Contact
by
Michael Flanagan
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When Robert Zemeckis’ film version
of the Carl Sagan novel came to movie
screens in 1997, it became known for 2 major
attributes: it was the alien film where the
world didn’t get blown up; also, it
was long and the payoff wasn’t what people
would expect or, for some, what they would
want. Contact
is not a blockbuster summer action movie,
it’s not about aliens, and it is
relatively long with very few special
effects-laden scenes.
In other words, it’s great.
What is Contact about, if not
aliens, earth domination, or box office
gain? First,
and by first I mean the first in the list
and not necessarily the most important,
it’s about science and technology. Our technology is powerful enough that television signals may
reach another world.
However, the first television signal
was Hitler opening the Olympic games.
So what kind of aliens would contact
us after seeing Hitler?
And when they respond, will we know
it? Who’s
listening?
Secondly, and related to the first, Conact
is about people.
What are we to become when we find
out we’re not the only living beings in
the universe with that science and
technology? Will we fear, respond, strike?
Finally, Contact is about
religion. If there exists life elsewhere, and that knowledge can be
gained by technology, then how do we explain
the universe? We have knowledge of technology, and we have knowledge of
aliens, so what happens to our faith?
Contact raises these
questions, and more, and for the most part,
leaves us to answer them, while providing a
guiding path that some may choose not to
follow.
It shows us that technology is good,
but it can be bad.
But it takes an extra step and points
out the very same about people and religion.
The point of Contact, and the
point of life, is to find harmony in these
three constantly conflicting forces.
We can look to the stars at the same
time as we look around us, and look in
ourselves.
Then and only then may we ask, what
do I see?
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