one of the best sci fi movies : contact 1997 movie review
At the beginning, I would like to say that one of the people who wrote this story is Carl Sagan, and he is, in short, an astronomer and an author of great importance, as his works and writings have reached millions around the world, and have won some awards.
contact 1997 movie storyline and events
The film begins with the little girl, Ellie, who loves searching for others, communicating with them, and also loves following the stars. Her father encouraged her to do so until he died when she was young.
Ellie grows up to become an astronomer, specializing in searching for other life patterns in the universe, and works in one of the scientific projects called SETI under the management of Dr. Drumlin, who wants to get quick results from this project, which made him end the project due to the difficulty of obtaining results. He was convinced it was out of reach.
This greatly angered Dr. Ellie, as it was destroying her dream. During that time, she had met a person named Palmer joss, a cleric who confronted those who used technology in a bad way against human nature and their beliefs. joss wanted to conduct an interview with Dr. Drumlin, which might benefit him in his book, which he wrote. He wrote a book about the impact of technology on third world countries.
Ellie had admired joss because he reminded her of her father, and she entered into a quick relationship with him, which was not destined for her to continue. When Ellie learned of the termination of the project, she decided to seek other funding to complete the project in another place as well, and began her pursuit of that.
Indeed, Ellie succeeded in finding funding for her project, and she moved to live in New Mexico next to the large array there, and spent four years searching for other life in the universe, until she learned that the government had decided to withdraw its telescopes from the project, under pressure from several other scientists, led by Drumlin. She should start looking for other financing now.
At the same time, joss became an author of popular works among the people, and even succeeded in becoming the spiritual advisor to the White House. He was distinguished by his strong belief in God. He had gained great fame through his ideas, and began giving television interviews to announce these ideas.
Ellie was going to the array, and sitting alone listening to the whispers of space coming to Earth, until that sound rang loudly in her ears. It was a signal coming from space, so she set off like a madman to the laboratory, shouting over the radio to her colleagues there to start monitoring the signal, and indeed they began monitoring quickly. And recording it until she arrived at the place, she began to determine what the signal was and its source, until she discovered that it was coming from a star named Vega. It was one of the most important times of the movie and the most exciting and fun, leaving you in an indescribable state of enthusiasm.
Ellie had to tell everyone about this amazing revelation, but she was still skeptical about what was happening, so she began communicating with other stations around the world quickly, to tell them about the signal so that they could start tracking and monitoring it, due to the Earth’s rotation around itself, and to make sure that there was a real signal coming from outside. the earth.
The matter became certain for Ellie. Everyone spotted the signal, and the American government learned of the news and rushed to the place, along with Dr. Drumlin, and also the President’s National Security Advisor, who was trying to understand what was happening. In the midst of that, they discovered the presence of a second signal stronger than the first. It was a signal. Visible this time, and when they received it on the screen and it was redacted, shock was on everyone's faces.
Hitler was on the screen, and he was announcing the start of the first Olympic Games in the new era. It was the first transmission broadcast by satellite from inside the Earth, and it was received by aliens and broadcast again to us.
Then the White House held a conference to clarify the nature of this discovery, and to make people reassure a little because of these events, and Ellie was supposed to speak at it, but Dr. Drumlin took the lead in explaining what happened to the press and the public.
At the same time, inside the laboratory, another message was discovered along with the visual message. It became clearer after examining it that it was a huge amount of data. No one knew why it was referring. When Ellie learned of this, she was happy and surprised at the same time. When the government was informed of this, they decided to assign the research mission. All these discoveries were made under the supervision and coordination of Dr. Drumlin, and under the leadership of Dr. Ellie.
These statements had no principles of reading and no clear meaning, and their attempts continued to find their meaning or explain them, but they did not achieve anything at all, until Ellie returned one night to her house to find another message waiting for her, but this time it was from an earthly one, and someone had known about this. Data, and asked to meet her somewhere to clarify the matter.
It was Mr. Hadden, who granted her the funding for her project, and who was and still is very enthusiastic about it. He surprised her by finding out the principles of reading this data, and gave it to her, which made her extremely happy and amazed. She headed to the White House to inform them of the matter, and in a small session she presented what she had learned. The data was drawings of a machine they were required to build, but no one knew the purpose of building it. There were several opinions opposing its construction, including the spiritual advisor to the White House, joss.
In the end, they knew that the machine was not intended to cause harm to the Earth, but its purpose was to carry one person to go to them, and to achieve communication between the two parties. Accordingly, several candidates were chosen, led by Dr. Ellie and also Dr. Drumlin.
The machine was built at a very large cost, and Dr. Drumlin was chosen to be the passenger in it. After several tests of the candidates and listening to their opinions and reactions, during these sessions, the cleric Joss asked Dr. Ellie about her belief in the existence of God, and she replied that she believes in the result and the cause. Only, and this was precisely the reason for her exclusion from taking this trip, and this was fortunate for her, as the machine exploded in Dr. Drumlin, just before he embarked on the trip.
Dr. Ellie was surprised that another machine had been built, in another place, by Mr. Hadden, and that he had decided that she would be the Earth’s ambassador to it. Immediately before its launch, she was surprised by the cleric joss. He visited her and informed her that he had asked her about her faith in God on purpose, as he loved her and did not want to. To lose her.
Dr. Ellie begins her very exciting journey, as she passes through more than one wormhole, until she finds herself in a place with a beach, water, and trees, where she could touch space with her hands, and from afar appears the silhouette of a person forming and approaching her, and she tries to clarify its features until it is close. She was very surprised that he was her father, which made her unable to believe what she saw, but she threw herself into his arms in a very beautiful scene. Of course, it was not him actually. He was one of the creatures that contacted us, embodied in the image of a person from her memory, and he was the closest person to her, her father.
A conversation took place between her and this creature, in which he told her that there were other creatures in the universe other than them, and that they had been studying them for a while. He also told her that they found humans suffering from loneliness, a feeling of loss, and an intolerance of each other. Dr. Ellie asked him if there were Other visits were possible, so he answered her yes, but this was only the first step, and asked her to be patient when she told him that her people wanted to see what she saw.
The return trip began immediately, and Ellie suddenly woke up from her coma, and heard a voice asking her how she was doing, and that they were trying to find out what kind of malfunction had happened to the machine, but she shocked them all by asking her how long she had been absent on her trip, and what the date was today, and when she regained full consciousness, they offered her What the cameras surrounding the machine recorded was that the vehicle it was carrying had fallen through the machine and into the water. This astonished and greatly confused her, and made her insist that she had gone on her journey.
The President decides to conduct a special investigation into what happened, and it is headed by the National Security Advisor, who had some degree of doubt about what happened, and this was evident in his sharp interrogation of Dr. Ellie. He told her that this was all a big hoax, carried out by Mr. Hadden for an unknown purpose, and that there is a saying Scientific says that the simplest explanation is the correct one, and that there is not a single piece of evidence for what she tells her about her journey. The very important question posed by one of those in charge of the investigation was: Are you asking us to believe your story with faith without evidence, facts, or even a recording? Her answer was shocking to everyone when she said that it was possible that all of this did not actually happen, and that she had no actual evidence of its occurrence, and when the National Security Advisor shouted at her to admit that this trip of hers did not actually happen, she answered him with what the movie wanted to tell us.
This trip was an experience that felt very real, and it changed her forever, because it gave her a vision About the universe, I learned about the extent of man’s size, his rarity, and his value in it, and that we definitely belong to something greater than us, with certainty, and that we are not alone in the universe, and that she hopes that everyone feels the humility, awe, and hope that she felt. She was unusually honest in her feelings.
From not believing in God, Ellie turned to believing in God, and the last scene showed us her leaving with the cleric joss, his support for her by believing her story and realizing that she had actually changed, and touched what he had touched before, by feeling God and the miracles He created in the universe and its creatures. It was a very beautiful moment for him with her holding his hand, in appreciation of his love for her and his faith in her.
my words
- A very wonderful movie that carries a beautiful idea and more beautiful feelings, dreamy moments between a father and his daughter, a person’s fight to protect his dream, and an ending that tells us the greatness of our Creator, who placed in us all these qualities that are unique to any other creature in this vast universe.
- The movie's music is very dreamy and delicate, and evokes wonderful feelings. It adds a lot to the events of the movie.
- This movie touches a part of the heart, and makes it comfortable, calm, and accepting of the being of each one of us that God created us with.
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