SPOILER - A Question of Faith

Rating: 8/10 (21 April 2000)

I recently saw Contact for the second time; I got more from it the second time.
I think one of the real underlying themes was the questioning of a scientist's faith; a 'scientist' can only believe in that which can be measured, quantified, proven, etc.
Based on the fact that something like 95% of the Earth's population is involved in organized religion the selection council determined =this>scientist could not properly represent the people of Earth because she didn't believe in what couldn't be proven.
Upon her return the same people proclaim the scientist a fraud because =she>can't prove she had somehow taken an 18 hour journey during a split second in real time. They in essence had no =faith= in that which couldn't be scientifically proven.
I think it's that question which comes back to me every time I think about this film.
A line comes to mind, "Where you stand on a subject often depends on where you sit."