There is such a movie, which occupies the first place in the sci-fi world in my heart . It is neither Interstellar and Inception directed by Nolan, nor Avatar and The Matrix; it is a movie without gorgeous special effects, but with extreme A film that enriches the spiritual core, its existence can be said to be a milestone in the sci-fi world. The film that Cola-kun will introduce to you today is this 1997 release, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey .
Are you familiar with the names of the two leading actors? Let's briefly introduce the main characters of the film.
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Director: Robert Zemeckis, American director, has directed famous films such as "Back to the Future" , "Forrest Gump" and "Remaining Desert Island" .
Starring 1: Jodie Foster, American actress, Best Actress at the 61st and 64th Academy Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award at the 70th Golden Globe Awards, and her famous film "Silence of the Lambs".
PS: In "Zootopia", Officer Judy, played by Rabbit, paid tribute to Jodie Foster's role as a police officer in Silence of the Lambs.
Starring 2: Matthew McConaughey, American actor, yes, the one who played "Interstellar".
Every awesome sci-fi movie always has a more awesome sci-fi tycoon as an advisor, and this one is no exception. He is Carl Sagan, American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, and science fiction writer. , and a very successful popular science writer in astronomy, astrophysics and other natural sciences. Founder of the Planetary Society.
Story introduction
Why does Cola-Jun list "Contact in Time" as the first sci-fi film? It has no gorgeous special effects, no aliens, and it can even be said that the entire movie was filmed "on Earth" (I can't help but think of it The other two films, "The Night the Comet Came" and "This Man From Earth", Ke Lejun will find time to explain these two interesting films), but it is mixed with science fiction, faith, and religion, which makes people so unfinished. , and have infinite reverie.
The beginning of the film is quite unique. As the camera moves from the earth to the universe, it shows the electromagnetic waves that we can hear. The age also changes from near to far, and then to a dead silence, and this vast universe is in the eyes of the girl Xiao Huo Er .
Little Spark, who lost his mother at a young age, was playing with the radio with his father and received a greeting from Florida, "Can we receive further information?" "I may need a bigger antenna", Little Spark full of curiosity. At the same time, his father fell ill and died, leaving Xiao Huo'er alone.
As time goes by, Little Spark has grown into Dr. Harloway , working in the observatory, listening to distant signals in the vast universe day and night. One day, at a restaurant, he ran into the theologian Joss , and the two speculatively met for dinner. In Harloway 's eyes, the universe was so romantic.
Because the astronomical science program was losing money and the observatory was about to be shut down, Dr. Harloway decided to go with his colleagues to the Astronomical Array in Mexico, where the observatory is bigger. In order to attract Dr. Harloway 's talk about investing, he obviously did not move the investor to turn around, but fortunately, a potential businessman's father gave her an investment, and she was able to continue her dream of exploration.
Jos has become a well-known theologian, working for the government. At the same time, Dr. Harloway , who was lying on the roof of the car , received a regular signal in the distant universe. After adjusting the antenna , Dr. Harloway's team confirmed that it was a signal from the distant Vega. Society, all eyes are on here, including the government and the military.
The government forcibly took over all the work of Dr. Harloway 's team, but fortunately her father, the investor behind the scenes, gave her a clue to the signal, and decrypted and obtained a drawing of the machine and equipment. The government built the machine according to the drawing, and now it needs an astronaut Commissioner, who should I choose? Of course Dr. Harloway does his part on this issue , but Joss didn’t want Dr. Harloway to be alone, so asking the religious question at the hearing made Dr. Harloway ’s election difficult. Get on the astronaut.
Under the violence of the fanatics, the machine was blown to smithereens, but with the financial backing of the father behind the scenes, a second machine was built, and this time, Dr. Harloway finally got his wish. (It's nice to have a gold master dad)
Under the high-speed operation of the machine, Dr. Harloway drove the machine through the wormhole, saw many strange sights, and even had a conversation with the alien who turned into his father on Vega, but in the eyes of others, Dr. Harloway was only from The machine fell off and went nowhere.
At the press conference, Dr. Harloway was criticized by almost everyone and doubted the authenticity of the machine crossing. Fortunately, with the support of his lover Joss , Dr. Harloway continued to engage in astronomical work and passed on exploration to children. cosmic dream.
At the end of the film, government officials privately discussed the snowflakes recorded by Dr. Harloway 's head-mounted camera for more than ten hours, telling everyone that Dr. Harloway 's crossing was not a lie, but a real existence.
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I believe that many people have heard the phrase "the end of science is philosophy, and the end of philosophy is theology". I don't agree with this sentence. But a good sci-fi work will be more or less related to religion. Before we can figure out the ultimate problem of the universe, we cannot deny science and religion, but they can be said to be some kind of truth. kind of pursuit. The collision of religion and science in the film is described and discussed in a large amount of space. The emotional scenes and story lines are very tense and impactful, making the audience after watching it have a mellow aroma of wine tasting, and the aftertaste is hard to disperse.
Should we believe in science? Are we or should we be religious? I can't help but think of the famous double-slit interference experiment. After being observed by humans, the electrons actually walked out of different paths, and the behavior of human observation interfered with the objectivity of things. As the ultimate topic, the film naturally does not give an answer. It does not satirize religion or science, but looks at this issue dialectically.
"One of the grains in the vast ocean, mourn for the moment of my life." We don’t have to dwell on the questions set in the film. Science and religion are complementary. They push the wheel of history forward. The unremitting exploration of mankind is for the ultimate question. There are many details in the film. Dr. Holloway The first observatory was the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, which was the largest radio telescope in the world before the Chinese Sky Eye was built. The observatory where Dr. Holloway received the extraterrestrial signal is a radio telescope array remotely controlled by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory Array Operation Center in Mexico, the United States, spanning the distance of more than 8,000 kilometers from Hawaii to San Croix. It is 500 times that of the Hubble Space Telescope and 600,000 times that of the human eye, and its resolution can even be enough to allow people in New York to read a newspaper in Los Angeles.
Whether it is science or religion, human beings have done their homework on the issue of pursuing the ultimate goal of the universe, "Where do I come from, where do I go". With the landing of China's sky eye, the continuous progress of manned technology, the release of black hole photos. I hope that we can see the answer to the ultimate question in our lifetime. It is precisely because of this ultimate topic that human beings can continue to explore and make progress, their curiosity will never stop, and scientific exploration will never end. Facing the vast universe, "I need a bigger antenna!"
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