About face!

Rating: Null/10 (25 January 2003)

And I don't just mean the closeups of Jodie Foster. (Slight spoilers to follow!!) Her character does such a fast 180 at the end that my neck was nearly broken! She was all about science and confident in its ability to explain the world around her. All good until she goes into space, sees the "alien" and comes back a changed woman. I don't doubt that shacking up with Matthew McConaughey's character did much to deter her from her new-found religion. Anyway, science explains the world around us. The same was true back in back when the Druids were building Stonehenge and hiding from the sun. Once folks started to understand the skies around them (by noting patterns, making charts, etc) they didn't seem so scary and mystical. Jodie Foster's character was a SCIENTIST who happened to have an experience she couldn't explain (in part because of her emotional attachment? Probably!) and it REALLY irked me that she seemed to fall right into religion's arms afterword. A small crisis of faith before the 180 would have been nice, just for those of us paying attention.