We are not ready for 'contact'

Rating: 8/10 (31 July 2005)

Good film if no other reason it made the audience think! Personally I don't think alien civilisation would want to contact us at this moment in our evolution. It's not a question of surviving our technological adolescence - It's more a question of surviving our ridiculous belief(s) adolescence. No person on this planet can prove or disprove the existence of God and the fact that millions of us are willing to attach ourselves to 'blind' faith and (some) kill in the name of it says so much - put simply we are not ready - Until we can collectively address the issue with clear minds we are in no fit state to move forward and a highly evolved alien intellect would know this. Unfortunately I fear it will be many generations down the line before we put away our religious icons and truly open our collective minds. I for one are quite open to the possibility that a higher intelligence put the ingredients in the 'pot' to create our universe, but like everyone else I cannot prove it and would not have the arrogance to preach it to others. Yes I think its likely that higher intelligence exist around the galaxy and beyond, its just possible one of them may be aware of our existence through the premise of the film (electromagnetic broadcast) - but I think there methods of contact or more likely observation would be so sophisticated we wouldn't recognise it. And in any event, as I said earlier we need to rationalise our thoughts. The most telling scene in the whole movie was the 'carnival' in the car-park - says it all really.