The heroine Ellie is a person who is willing to give up everything and follow science wholeheartedly. To be precise, she is wholeheartedly searching for electromagnetic signals from outer space, hoping to get in touch with external life. Her career was sidelined by almost everyone because everyone thought it was an impossible task and a waste of life. Ellie, however, remains persistent, and is able to continue pursuing her dreams with the help of the mysterious Harden, who is both wealthy and knowledgeable.
The hard work pays off, she finally received the signal of self-governing women at the most desperate time. Even more exciting, these signals were decoded and turned out to be blueprints for a kind of spacecraft. Humans like cats and tigers actually built this spaceship. The next step is to choose a person to board the spacecraft to make contact with the aliens. It's a pity that Ellie was not chosen because she confessed that she didn't believe in God. Ellie has followed science her whole life, and scientific thinking tells her that everything needs proof. She can't find evidence of God's existence, so she believes that God doesn't exist.
Contrasting with Ellie are other religious extremists, who believe that the development of science has made people lose their religious beliefs, so they hate science. They blew up the ship that was about to start, successfully thwarting the first human attempt to contact the Vega people.
But the mysterious Harden gave Ellie a second chance. It turned out that a subsidiary in Japan had secretly built a second ship. Ellie finally got her wish. At this point, the most sci-fi part of the movie begins. Ellie's spaceship passed through the wormhole and came to the vast outer space. She saw the beautiful and magnificent universe, and she was beyond words to describe her excitement. However, she actually saw her dead father in Vega. It is said that Vega restored her father's influence according to her memory. The scene where they meet is exactly the same as a seaside scene Ellie painted when she was very young. Her "father" talked to her cordially and sent her back.
When Ellie came back, she was told that the ship had fallen directly into the sea, and that she had not actually gone anywhere. Ellie firmly believes that she has indeed left the earth, but she can't produce any proof.
At this point Ellie seems to understand the meaning of faith. She saw the vast universe and thought of the insignificance and loneliness of human beings. There must be an unexplainable existence in that vast and magnificent space. Just as she can't explain that she has actually been to Vega, humans don't always find evidence. At this time, a certain belief has become a kind of support for human beings.
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1. This movie is based on Carl Sagan's science fiction novel "Contact". Sagan is a famous American astronomer and popular science writer. It is very famous in the field of popular science in the United States.
2. The Drake equation (also known as the Sagan formula) is a formula proposed by astronomer Frank Drake to speculate on "the number of intelligent civilizations in and out of the galaxy that may be in contact with us". According to this formula, it is speculated that there are 2484 celestial bodies in the Milky Way that may have high-tech civilizations. (Quoted from Wikipedia)
3. Occam's Razor, which is "When you have two competing theories that lead to the same conclusion, the simpler one is better." Used twice in the movie To this principle, the first time was when Ellie and Joss were discussing the existence of God, she said that after God created human beings and the world without leaving any evidence and God does not exist, the latter is simpler, so she believes the latter . The second time was when a government official asked if Ellie was lying by saying that you went to Vega to see your dead father and then came back without any evidence and you didn't go anywhere at all, the latter is simpler, so you don't go anywhere Did not go.
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