Contact [Blu-ray]

If it is just us, seems like an awful waste of space🥀....—=( ❤️ &💡)=—… _ _ _ … 🥀 “Have courage and be kind.”Happy

Great movie.

This movie came out when I was a child. I was enamored with the entire plot because it felt so obtainable.It will forever be one of my favorite movies.

Great Sci-Fi Movie!!! Seen it several times.

This movie is so good, but I don’t enjoy endings that leave you hanging. Even with what I think is an unfinished ending, I have watched this movie many times.

CQCQCQI was happy that the image was very clear. If you have a modern tv and you bring out the blu-ray player to play this, you might have to turn off the HDMI deep color setting. Always loved this movie. And seeing the Arecibo dish was kind of sad. You would be happy with this movie. 73

Critics slated this movie, but I suspect their motives for doing so have less to do with the film's objectives and more, much more, to do with its accurate portrayal of mankind's likely reaction to an extraterrestrial signal. Scientists, politicians, billionaires, those who usurp the work of others more deserving, those who believe in a god, extremists, and those indoctrinated into a cult, are all represented here, and with few exceptions, unflatteringly so.Carl Sagan played a pivotal role in the production and accuracy of this film but sadly passed before it was finished. Had he lived to champion it for what it is, a serious, thought-provoking, conceptual piece of sci-fi, those factions of the human race exposed by it might well have been forced to take a good hard look at themselves and realise, as he firmly believed, that the chances of us being unique in the universe, is probably naive.

Robert Zemeckis’ 1997 film, “Contact,” adapts Carl Sagan’s 1985 novel of the same name. Sagan and Ann Druyan had begun work on the film in 1979, but it stalled so Sagan published the story as a novel instead. The story focuses on Dr. Ellie Arroway (played by Jodie Foster), who receives funding from billionaire industrialist S.R. Hadden (played by John Hurt) to perform her work for SETI at the Very Large Array in New Mexico. Arroway discovers a signal coming from Vega that is a rebroadcast of the 1936 Summer Olympics, the first signal strong enough to leave the Earth, reach an alien planet, and then be rebroadcast. The signal also contained 63,000 pages of data. Now working at a top-secret facility, Arroway deciphers the data which appears to contain plans for a machine that will transport a single occupant. Arroway hopes to pilot it, but a religious philosopher (played by Matthew McConaughey) argues that she does not adequately represent the human race. Unfortunately, religious terrorists ruin the pursuit of knowledge and destroy the machine along with its pilot, Dr. David Drumlin (played by Tom Skerritt). Fortunately, S.R. Hadden had funded the secret construction of a second machine, which Arroway uses to contact the aliens from Vega.The film is a great work of science-fiction, more meditative and thought-provoking than the big sci-fi action films of the late 1990s. Sagan, a scientist and science communicator who encouraged people to see the beauty in the universe, crafted a story that delves into some of the philosophical ideas he touched on in his other works, such as “Cosmos.” Zemeckis brings just the right amount of heart to the story, humanizing the characters so that anyone can identify with them and their experiences as he finds the emotional core of the story. The boldest idea of all is that this film never shows the aliens. They communicate with Earth using our own signals, mathematics, and images that will be familiar to the people so that there’s never a worry about the aliens looking fake or dated or just being people in make-up. It’s a film about the journey of discovery and the joy of learning. That said, Zemeckis also created revolutionary effects for the late 1990s, but incorporated them in a way that drives the story rather than overrunning it. The effects hold up well for their time, too, and add to the sense of mystery. An all-around great work of cerebral science-fiction.

Wow! Je ne me souvenais plus de ce film. Scénario très brillant. Les films de scienfiction c'est mon dada.

Trés bon envoi, film excellent

Ein Mitreissender Film, der die Grenzen überschreitet. Ob wir alleine sind oder gibt es Türen die wir noch nicht kennen. In die wir durschreiten können.

praticamente tutto

A titre personnel, j'adore ce qui touche à l'espace et à la radio à onde courte, scénario plausible par moment.