Contact

Rating: 8/10 (10 April 2006)

Carl Sagan's novel about contact with extraterrestrial intelligence was made into a movie starring Jodie Foster. Foster as Ellie gets into astronomy as a young girl. She pursues her passion into adulthood, working for SETI. Contact is made, and a machine is built according to instructions sent by aliens. Ellie is transported through wormholes. She has an encounter with an alien whom she perceives as her deceased father. The ending is inconclusive which only shows we can not seek reality in science fiction. Foster achieved notoriety when John Hinckley, the man who shot Ronald Reagan in 1981, said he did it to get her attention. Sagan got famous appearing on the Johnny Carson show. He did his Cosmos series for TV. From there, he got into dinosaurs and politics.