Contact: Quality Sci-Fi Film

Rating: 8/10 (11 December 2018)

I just viewed Contact for the second time. I had retracted my views on this film as a top 2000 film of all time because of an honest objection by one of my readers who disagreed with my assertion in the book. I took it out of the next edition; that was a mistake. I put it back in for the next several years' edition of 2000 of the Best Films of All Time. I was right the first time. It is a great film and does address several key questions: Is There a God? If There Isn't a God, then should we trust Science? Should we trust the Private Sector over our governments, God, and the Military-Industrial Complex? No one really knows the answers to these questions; we can only give our best guess; and that guess would be based on faith. Faith in science or faith in God? Maybe faith in both. There may not be much difference in any of these faiths. Everyone believes in something. I believe I'm going to have another gin and tonic.