Hallelujah!!!!

Rating: 10/10 (24 April 1999)

This is coming from a non-believer, but a true fan of this movie. Hollywood has FINALLY managed to make a fantastic sci-fi movie.
I can not express my feelings about this film, but I can say that it has affected me greatly. I have started questioning things, like Faith, the Universe and Mankind.
This portrayal of people's reactions, interactions and actions is but brilliant. Not only do the moviemakers ask how we would react to the knowledge of another form of intelligent life, but they avoid to focus on ugly and slimy the aliens, and instead focuses on US.
Jodie Foster is magnificent in this movie, and should AT LEAST have been nominated as Best Actress, and in my opinion won every award available that year. Also the movie itself should have won. Although Titanic was a good movie, and it did make me cry, it didn't touch me as much as Contact. I cry every time Ellie Arroway says: " ..some celestial event. Poetry! They should have sent a poet. (-) I had no idea...."
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