IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/
This is an awesome movie. In fact one of the best sci-fi based movies I hv seen. Nevertheless this movie underlines a realization that we are so insignificant in this universe that all our mortal passions and evils add up to nothing.
"The Universe is a vast; much larger than anything u can ever imagine ..and if we're all that's there, its an awful waste of space"
Similarly..your life span is vast; much larger than the moment you are imagining about it....and if u hvnt seen this movie, its an awful waste of time..
I havent read the book yet, but the movie itself stands out on its own. It throws a perspective that is comprehensible to evn the lame man w/o any scientific knowledge..the realization that we are nobody. We dont even know who we are? Why we are? How we are? Essentially as our so called intellect progresses we separate ourselves from others. We surf the web, watch movies...but that is just to bypass the loneliness and seclusion we have enshrouded ourselves in. In comparison to the vastness of the universe we are really lonely..the only relief we can find is in each other....Can there be a better message to spread the message of love for fellow beings.
The debate Science vs Religion is as old as the Greek olympics and maybe even older. The film I think is a satire on our perspective of this debate....As said by Father Joss at the end..both are just two sides of the same coin: they are both dedicated to the pursuit of truth. The film makes a mockery of our consumer profit making mentality...As soon as the scientists acknowledge receiving a signal, an insurance company comes up with a UFO abduction insurance adn lots of other commercial ideas....sounds funny but thats exactly what we do...try to cash in on a situation...then there are fanatics who oppose evry damn step mankind has taken.....coming up with a "GOD" explanation...Finally such a fanatic finally try to blow up such a step( I wont spoil the mpvie)...
The film is sarcastic in many ways: It shows that the powerful mop up the ideas of their juniors and make their name out of it.....The real scientist remains unknown while a manager or coordinator of ideas hogs the limelight...Its the same thing that happened to the manhattan project(atom bomb)..Oppenheimer hogged the limelight? what was his contribution...next to nothing....
The one question Ellie would have asked the "intelligent ET" was " How did they survive through the technological evolution without destroying themselves"...man that was profound..we have already been close to that situation twice....
Jodie foster does extremely well as crazy but determined scientist. The cinematography is good and the editing crisp....no dogmatism...
Well I can write pages about this movie but then u wouldnt read it. Infact dont waste any more time, watch the movie and stop all your shady materialistic ideas. You are not even a microbe in a remote African anthill when the size of the universe is taken into account.....
Rating: 8/10
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