contact to write a message sent by a female astronomer who discovered an extraterrestrial civilization. Governments built a time travel machine based on the message. The heroine rides a machine through a wormhole to make contact with an alien civilization, but she cannot prove that she has traveled through time and space.
What's great about this film is its professionalism. Screenwriter Carl Sagan is an astronomer and popular popular science writer, so naturally he doesn't pick on the details of the plot. But the problem with the plot is precisely - in my opinion - the totality. Because the plot spends most of its time telling the various political struggles surrounding the discovery of extraterrestrial civilization information - from the US government to deceiving other countries, to the heroine's mentor taking credit for her everywhere. By contrast, 2001: Space Travel is not without political struggles. For example, the dialogue between the protagonist and the Russians after the discovery of the black stone on the moon suggests a fierce confrontation under the table. Contact's handling of political battles is fairly clean, but far less elegant than 2001: Space Travel. In fact, this is also related to the characteristics of Kalsagen. Carl Sagan and von Braun's generation of astronauts spent a lot of effort with the government and the public to promote space technology.
The plot of the contact is not completely without problems. For example, after building such a machine, it is almost impossible to put it into use without experimentation. Refer to the development of manned spaceflight. And the fact that the machine turned on for the first time was actually a real person—and not a soldier—was not really believable. Moreover, the plot says that the camera (which should also include other sensing devices) does not record what the heroine sees at all (especially the light at the beginning, the light when passing through the wormhole), which is also impossible - unless all this It really happens in the heroine's brain. Because everything that the human eye can see, the camera must also be able to detect. For another example, if there is a gravity recording device, the environment where the compass is weightless will be recorded. The last time, the abnormal electromagnetic field (in fact, there should be an abnormal gravitational field) recorded during the start-up of the instrument can finally provide some indirect evidence. So the ending bluntly stating that there is no evidence in order to put science and religion together is a plot hole.
Another very unsatisfactory aspect of contact is the treatment of science and religion. According to the deduction of contact, the ultimate of science is religion. What the heroine said in the last paragraph is an endorsement of religion. It feels sad. The director clearly confuses two things: beyond comprehension and religion. Sometimes we colloquially say that something cannot be understood must be the will of God, but this God is certainly not some God who created the world tens of thousands of years ago as defined by the Bible or the Koran. What scientists say about God is often a so-called pantheism, which refers to something beyond reason. Whether such a god exists is completely irrelevant to science. But this god has absolutely nothing to do with the gods of a certain religion. It should be said that scientists do not oppose gods, but they oppose gods. Surprisingly, the White House in the play actually has a magician as an important adviser, which is completely contrary to the principle of separation of church and state in the United States. So contact mixes religion with science, which is very unacceptable for a person engaged in scientific research.
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