One of the best movies ever made

Rating: 10/10 (9 March 2013)

Young genius Ellie is encouraged by her blue collar dad to channel her talents into astronomy ,as he lacks the funds for private school or tutors.As they are about to watch a stellar event he has a massive heart attack.leaving her completely alone. Gifted astronomer Ellie Arroway is working on the seti project hunting for aliens by listening to radio chatter from deep space.As she moves around from Arecibo to New Mexico not making attachments to anyone ,it seems like her footsteps are dogged by the presidents science adviser David drumlin who shuts down projects ,cancels funding and is very condescending of her chosen speciality. And then she receives a signal...
A lot of people criticised the movie for various reasons the most famous one being the south park comment "waited 3 hours to see the aliens and it was her god**** father". those people missed the point of the film entirely .There is nothing they could have possibly ever done with the aliens that would have pleased the audience with a 3 hour build up,so they didn't try.The film was of a strangely spiritual bent and seeing her old dad again fit in perfectly with this.In the end Ellie ask her disbelieving planet for "faith" that the journey actually occurred at all. A very great majestic triumph of movie