Contact is wonderful (Contains Spoilers)

Rating: 10/10 (26 March 2013)

This movie is based on a novel bearing the same name which is Carl Edward Sagan's only work of fiction that he ever wrote. Carl Sagan is one of my heroes largely because of his Peabody award-winning Cosmos series. Sagan was willing to envision civilizations far more advanced than we are but reused to ignore the laws of physics when writing his novel Contact. Sagan had a friend at Cal-tech named Kip Throne who is a theoretical physicist who worked on wormholes and the nature of space and time whom consulted him on Contact. This movie was the #1 best astronomy movie according to Astronomy Magazine because it was a realistic depiction of contact with an alien civilization. Contact was very well written and deep, and I can totally relate to this movie. My favorite part was when Ellie went in the dodecahedron pod on that machine and traveled through wormholes and saw stars and galaxies and landed on a beach on a planet near the center of our galaxy where see saw an apparition of her father. This movie is currently my #2 favorite only second to Avatar and is a great homage to astronomy.