One of the best sci-fi movies I've ever seen. In the film, the female protagonist enters the wormhole to reach the destination and the dialogue with the extraterrestrial life is impressive. As an "interesting hybrid", human beings have an innate ability to feel loneliness and self-doubt. Lost, isolated, and lonely can only survive by relying on each other, producing various forms of collective beliefs to console themselves: Religion , country, nation, social group, family... In the face of the vast space, human beings are always like an orphan without friends, a beggar who warms himself in a cold winter alley, a death row prisoner in an empty dungeon without a jailer, cowardly , fear, bewilderment.
Science is nothing more than two forms, one is the continuous improvement of technology, which separates people from primitive life; the other is the exploration and self-evidence of the nature of human beings and the world, and the connection between us and the world, while people are Indulge in material desires and gradually lose the motivation to move forward. In a sense, science is another form of "atheism" that exists with logically rigorous proofs and is undoubtedly deeply rooted as a religion. As the male protagonist in the film said, the original appeal of science is to seek truth. If we only focus on reality and pay attention to the benefits within reach, just to improve the good life of most individuals and better ensure the continuation of the safety of the species, if we lose the courage to move forward, human beings will always be a child who cannot return home. , forever tormented by loneliness and emptiness.
At the end is a poetic scene: Ellie sits on the canyon, looking out at the horizon, so similar to the beautiful scene in her head of "Chrono Contact", maybe she is already looking forward to the next encounter, the bard will be there for one. This encounter is an immortal poem... It is impossible to know what the fate of civilization will be, but even if we are tormented, we do not want to go from birth to death as numbly as the living dead.
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