one of the truest movies made

Rating: 10/10 (24 March 2006)

At the end of the movie..the scientist is asked.."could it have been an illusion ..a projected, manufactured experience??
Yes, answers Jodi Foster as Jane Arroway..but she is sure it was not...but She admits that it might have been. Its moral lessons and truths still ringing clear to her.
Ask this question of the born again and other assorted "people of God" and you will be beheaded.. or asked to sit at the back of the bus.
The world wants to be known, but guess what...its hard .. and only open minds..exploring the world we can know directly with humility and HOPE and extracting the truths waiting to be revealed will know the path to a better future . Watch this movie and think about it.
I wish 9/10 of the world would!
This movie conveys the required broad view that displays the best and the predictably worst of our nature and yet holds out the promise that we may someday know our past and strive for something better. One has to know where one has come from before you can determine where it is you want to go. I think this was one of Sagans expressions.
Yes.. we have risen from the blank, unaware, unknowing void ..but the future is us... aware.. now ours to mold.
This movie states these facts and poses these questions in a beautiful and hopeful fashion.
Think about it! Yes we rose from the animal mind.. but that does not mean we can not go forward. Read "The Moral Animal" by Robin Wright and become aware of the "Naturalists Fallacy". Let us all go forward!