Search for God

Rating: 9/10 (21 January 1999)

This movie is ALMOST perfect, and definitely goes into my top 10 of all time list. I could have done without pasting in Clinton (I don't know why, it just doesn't work for me), and I felt the end of the trial was falsely ambiguous. After all, when Ellie first gets the signal, she goes to great pains to make sure it's not "local," so at the end of the trial to admit it could have been a hoax from a satellite is anathema. And as far as validating her journey--why didn't they just put Kitz in the pod for the next trip? Seems to me that would have solved everything. I work for a national observatory, and one of the engineers made a comment to me one day that, I think, illustrates this movie in a nutshell. He said astronomers are just looking for God. I think he's right. Whether we look thru the lens of religion, spirituality or science, aren't we all, really, looking for God?