Contact based on Carl Sagan's book

Have you guys watched a film called Contact? A very interesting film. If I were you, I would watch it. It's based on the book of Carl Sagan. I always say to my husband that this film is about God and that's why I like it, but he always says that this film is about Science and that's why he likes it...maybe it's about both. 

I will tell you how I see it. The film is about scientists that want to discover if there is life in other planets (sensitive subject for many). The main scientist is Jodie Foster and she is the most skeptical scientist of all of them. She doesn't believe in God and, in fact, she thinks God is a creation of the human mind to comfort us when we have problems. But then she meets a religious men and they get involved. Jodie Foster's character goes through an experience and when she comes back from that experience, no one believes her story because she doesn't have proof of what she's seen and what she's heard. She had a camera with her that only recorded statics and the project she was involved in seemed to have failed, but she experienced something. 

The funny and great thing about this film is that every penny of skepticism she gave to religion came back to her after the scientists panel (the panel where she once belonged to) asked her when she went to an official meeting to defend her story: "Do you expect us to believe your story on faith?" That was exactly what she was expecting as a scientist that couldn't prove what she's seen and heard. And yet, the only people who believed her were religious and all her scientists fellows turned their back on her.

There is another bit of the film that I find great. When Jodie Foster's character was a little girl, she asked her father: "Do you think that there is life in other planets?" Her father answered: "If there isn't, it seems an awful waste of space." 

This movie makes me think and wish that scientists find the answers they are looking for sooner than later. We will all be in the same page when they discover the truth that has always been in front of them the whole time ;) 

That's the film trailer for you below.

Take care! 

Mrs. P