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highly recommended

Are We Alone?

Jodie Foster gives a passionate performance as a scientist in search for ET. Her determination to go against the scientific community, the government and politics within her own scientific community, in order to substantiate the existence of extraterrestial life pays off in the end, or does it? She is by default left to take the ultimate journey herself to see whether what her father believed was truth or fiction. The billionaire who funds her venture adds a bit of wonderful eccentricity to the movie. Even though the ending of the movie with her transport to the outer reaches of the universe and a surprise encounter with another being leaves one wondering "what was that all about" the movie, as a whole, is very entertaining. The special effects of the "other worlds" is stunning and so beautiful you don't want to stop watching. It is a fitting tribute to Carl Sagan, the Cosmos Series Author.

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THE EVER MYSTERIOUS UNIVERSE

Whenever I have a chance to look at the open clear skies at night, I always have a tingling sensation and wonder what do we have out there in this vastness, are there intelligent living things like us or even much superior than us out there. It would be rather preposterous to presume that we're the only living thing existed in the whole universe. As it is so well put in the movie that 'It would be such a waste, wouldn't it?' This is why I am so fond of Jodie Foster's character in the movie; from a very young age, she is fascinated with the idea of receiving messages from intelligent living thing from outer space. She has the support from her father but; unfortunately, he died when she is still very young. However, her interest remains unchanged and goes on to pursue her ambition and graduated with a doctorate in her desired field. She has to go through adverse situations before she got her financial support from a prominent industrialist played by John Hurt. She finally succeeded in receiving messages from a faraway place. The messages she received is to build a machine but it is in code that no one can decipher. Just as the hope of deciphering the blueprint is in vain, the industrialist summons her to his private plane and conveys the decoded chart to her.

You can imagine the discovery of this magnitude when made known to the world, what kind of commotion it would create. From this climatic moment on there is no dull moment. You see the ambitious contest and opportunistic seizure by some scientist to gain recognition and the right to ride in the spacecraft, the wacky religious cultist and his bent on destruction, and all kinds of outlandish demonstrations of human irrational reactions. In the end Jodie Foster gets to ride the spacecraft.

I don't want to spoil the fun of watching the movie yourselves, therefore, I'll leave it right here. I guess I'm not the only one who got a kick out of the line 'Wanna take a ride' spoken by John Hurt in the movie. There is one reviewer who put it as his title.

Contrary to the famous critic of a worldwide fame weekly magazine who ridiculed the movie as being shallow, I think instead, it is very imaginative and has a profound sense of the unknown.

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Great Movie

This is a great movie that I can watch over and over. The script develops the characters well and represents Carl Sagan's plot without compromise.

Pretty good

Overall, a gripping and dramatic experience, highlighted with many colorful stereotypes and strong performances but marred by pedantic, emotional manipulation (standard for Zemeckis) and some fuzzy math. There is absolutely no way that 95 percent of the world's population believes in a supreme being. China has over a billion people, and I'd wager that atheism is running at 80 percent or higher. Atheism is widespread over the former Soviet Union, then think of Japan, and the changing face of modern Europe. Even here in America, the most Christianized nation on the planet, atheism / agnosticism is 15 percent or higher and growing. I'm sure that fact would delight Carl Sagan a lot more than, say, the way his book has been twisted into this by a seminal Joe Neo-Con. Other than that, this is a pretty good film with powerfully strong effects and plenty of drama. Jodie Foster is extraordinary, no doubt about that.

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