No words for Jodie's performance.

Rating: 10/10 (21 October 1999)

There are no words to express how Contact makes me feel.
When I first saw this movie, I thought it would be a predictable moral fable. But it became one of my all time favorites.
Contact is not a story about alien invaders. It's true that it features amazing special FXs. But most of alll, it's a story that touches your soul and makes you think about faith and science. This comment may contain some spoilers, so be warned. It's a complex portrait of contemporary society, our obsesions, our fears.

If you start thinking what would happen to us if we got a sign from an alien life form, it wouldn't be very different from Contact.
The fear of facing the unknown, the need of holding to old traditions and religion (in a fundamentalist way), it would all be confusing and controversial. The destruction of the first machine is breathtaking, it's like you lose all your faith in mankind. How can governments and people be so stupid and intolerant? If we can't trust ourselves, how could we ever trust an extraterrestrial intelligence?
Jodie Foster should have got the Academy Award for her performance.
She became Ellie Arroway, her despair, her amusement, it was all real.
When she tries to convince an skeptic audience that her experience was real, she made me cry.
Would you believe Dr. Arroway's story? Would you have faith in her words? I believe in them. I believe, as Ellie said, that if we're alone in the universe, it would be a waste of space.