"Oh God! OooOooOooOoo!" 0:50 (Looks down to her lower right) "Oh hell! Nothing but static! It's not recording anything. This is not going to look good when I get back."
The part that always struck me was that the trip was only bumpy and violent because of human beings contribution to the original plans (the chair). It's just like humanity to complicate things under the guise of believing we know better
Palmer Josh gave her that compass necklace saying "it might save your life one day" . And indeed it did, when it came loose it showed the occupant was much safer floating in zero gravity than to be tied to the machine and get crushed.
it’s simply a matter of your honesty. Ai guess @trust is sort of a lost cause. It seems like rather starting with a clean slate until proven marred, instead the process starts with being marred up by someone, then observing how u clean it up. If that’s where we’re all at, if that’s are default go to MO, it’s not ideal for our species I think it’s more of a matter of attracting like minds, the way mile or cream might separate
I saw this when it first came out. This scene blew my mind. I actually cried. The way they captured the vastness.. the wonder and possibility. We’re so small. We’re a speck. A grain of sand. There’s so much we don’t know.
Carl Sagan knew when he wrote the novel way back in the 1980's...we are not alone...sleep well Carl....you inspired generations of knowledge hungry children to marvels at the wonders of the universe...RIP Carl Sagan...gone but not forgotten.
@Carl Green ow i wondered that either. But i think when that transport falling to water that all things happening and its take a few seconds on earth. She could see two alternatives that ball falls to water and theyre coming to get her out and the other reality as that space thing lol i hope i told what i want to say
It is interesting to note that the chair was not part of the design sent by the aliens, and it is the only part of the device that was shaky. The moment she got off that chair, the ride was smooth.
even though the movie is a shadow of the book, it always makes me feel depressed that i've wasted my life whenever i see it. i regret that the younger awe filled version of me who was fascinated by the stars didn't double down and do everything to get a career in astronomical science or aeronautics. in any case i do feel jodie foster made for a perfect ellie, and i can live vicariously through this and carl sagan's writing.
Even if you had earned a degree in it, it's very difficult to get a career in astronomy or anything similar. Aerospace engineering, yes that's more likely, but usually only with the military or with aircraft manufacturers.
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Always loved how the singularity in the machine pulls everything to it. Air, clouds, ocean, ships. "And this kids is what happens when you make a miniature black hole on a planet surface"
I don't know how I've never noticed the clouds being pulled in before, I must've seen this movie a dozen times. What an awesome detail, thanks for pointing it out! "Contact" is such a criminally underrated gem.
To create a miniature wormhole you need mass any experiment or pratical device you could create or Earth would dissipate in a matter of nanoseconds through hawking radiations...
I think Carl Sagan who wrote this in the mid-eighties did so much to enlighten us to the wonders of the universe with his early 80's tv show Cosmos..it certainly awoke a passion in me to know all that is knowable...R.I.P. Carl
There is ancient portal network that our Secret Space Programs discovered, but humans are not fit to travel ... it gives headache and dizziness to people. So SSPs create their own portal network.
This movie alone made me research Carl Sagan. Reading some of his works & learning about him had a bigger impact on my personal well being than the bible ever did.
That little part in the scene that shows the lights down there and she says "They're alive" still scares me to this day. I always think about that part when I'm flying on a plane at night and look down out of the window. Something about it. Terrifying.
The scene she sees at 2:40 (the quadruple star system above a planet) is almost identical to a poster she had on her wall further back in the movie when she was staying at the Aricebo telescope. Cool little detail when you realise that the aliens were constructing the journey from her memories.
watched this last night, never even heard of it until few days ago, stumbled across it randomly. and oh dam!! what a film!! why dont they make more time travel/space movies like this more often. the whole movie builds up to this scene and gotta say its defo not dissapointing.
one fact of this travel scene is that no oxygen mask required, because the trip is at the speed of light, it keeps seconds in true time and space and the brain has all the oxygen needed for fuctioning.....best movie i ever saw !!!
To clarify here, in the book the journey was actually set up like a tour of various types of star systems, stopping briefly at each. Singles, binaries, Trinaries, etc.
@whatsina1 The second stop looks like a civilization, from that altitude they don't look much different from our own cities, which I believe is the message that part was trying to portray.
The chair wasn't in the alien designs. There's a scene where Ellie (Jodie Foster) is arguing that it should be removed, but the human designers said they wanted some sort of protection for the traveller. The implication is that it was a huge mistake and they should have trusted the alien design: if she hadn't gotten out of the chair she would probably have been killed when it hit the wall.
Epicnerd73 This is so cool to see! I'm researching blackhole scenes for an animated "3D Branding" project and came across this thread on Contact. I've really loved "Contact" since I read the book and then the film. So fantastic! Totally agree with the person that said most "underrated" SciFi film of all time -- even though it was quite revered. Still, not enough. I totally loved this movie and will always consider it in my top 5. (right up there will all the big ones that everyone knows)
"Plus it's also entirely possible that Ellie experienced the beach scene in her mind, when the aliens were communicating telepathically. They knew that humans are emotionally delicate creatures, and that Ellie as a human entity would have physical/emotional stress from spacetime travel. So a more personal approach might though breaching cultural human privacy mental space but be more effective. 'They know humans are not socially/politically/technologically advanced enough to handle the implications of this technology (seeing as they historically destroy and colonize each other and use scientific knowledge for uneven gain), but are individually empathetic creatures that can handle and trust in universally understood emotional minding coping mechanisms for comfort' "Similar to how an empathetic human would move a single ant away from the colony for curiosity's sake for five minute study, and gently give small crumbs and use subtle smell/pheromones to communicate with said single ant before returning it back to its colony. The human would not use spoken human vocal human language to the ant, because an ant would not comprehend that. When the ant returns, in what form do they communicate: "The Large Being Above treated me gently and brought me beyond the hill. There is a colony beyond you cannot even imagine the size and system of" Would the other ants believe this? Hard to say!" A gentle human who studies ants would do this. A careless human would stick its hand into the anthill and get bitten, or step into the anthill."
ahhhh, I remember watching this on basic cable some years ago when I was in middle school. Ahhhhh, It feels so good to find out the name of a movie that I didnt know. *sniff* its just like what happened to me and the Fifth Element
I watched this today and it is the best movie about extra terrestrial life ever. From what I'm told, the author of the book wrote a lot of non fiction on the subject of astronomy.
I don't know if anybody else caught it. Fosters' character in the book and the movie was an avowed atheist... yet the first thing she screams while traveling through the worm-hole is 'OH GOD!'
never noticed this before.. she has that projection saying "there alive" then seconds later she says that.. is this saying that time was distorted and that projection was from the future even if it was by seconds?
Yeah- Time and space were essentially "broken" at the core of the machine. Past present and future were all existing at the same time because of the singularity. :)
@jimahr She didn't travel through space but hyperspace (wormhole). Relative to the earth-bound observer she went 18 hours into the past and back to the very moment she left. Hyperspace theoretically allows travel to the past as you actually go faster than light, connecting two points in space which would normally take much longer through "normal" space at the speed of light. I think for reasons of not violating causation, Sagan made her come back to earth's present.
@unreal1298 I think one of the many points this film is trying to say, is that, one person listened to the universe, when no body else was interested and heard a message from space. Then she gets to go and after coming back after making contact no one will listen to her still.
This is one of the most beautiful SF-movies ever. Intelligent, thoughtful, realistic (as far as it can be given its speculative subject) and visually beautiful.
@Starbat88 everyone did, but giving them a physical form would just be the result of whatever artists designed them. By using a construct of Ellen's memories, we're able to 'see' the alien while still having a bridge to our own society to relate with. It makes sense considering how many different races they send out these messages to; they don't know if they'll be hostile when they arrive to meet them, showing them a form they're familiar with reduces the likelihood of hostility.
@Biotektan The reason she got out of the chair was because her necklace was drifting in the air so calmly while her chair was shivering violently. Besides, it's a good thing she got out before the chair hit the ceiling lol
The moment when Ellie realises that she can float free inside the spaceship thingy without the need for a chair. In fact if she had stayed in that dammed chair she would have been dashed to pieces. By the way the Vegans never mentioned a chair in their transmission.
0:27 gravity distortion 0:54 black hole natural relay 1:20 only without mass the photon reacts 1:32 reaches the second galaxy 2:00 artifical antique relay station 2:12 time distortion 2:50 alien planet 4:30 semi-transparent material
good catch at 2:00. I ended up here trying to find that element of the book, and at 2:02 I was pretty sure I found it, and your timeline seems to agree with that. Though perhaps we are not inferring the same thing as you refer to it as the 'relay station'. What I was looking for was the planet sized 'globe' in space she sees that is covered by all sorts of various shapes of radio telescope pointing in 360 degrees. And while the image at 2:02 does not look quite like that, I think they are trying to picture radio telescopes of a sort. Or perhaps what is shown at 2:50 is a attempt at a planet full of radio telescopes.
many underlying themes in regards to science religion and faith in general, as she passes through the first wormhole she screams OH GOD..just letting you know
the whole movie dealt with science and religion and how contact with aliens would stir up conflict between the two (the scene where the religious nutcase blows himself up with the machine), but also how science and religion can coexist (joss accepting that arroway really did have contact with aliens). I doubt that screaming oh god would mean anything to the average joe or jane though. I reckon I'm an atheist and I use 'Oh God' and 'Jesus Christ' a fair bit, when my sailor mouth isn't running itself off though haha, and I doubt I'm the only one to as well.
@avedic YES! I have had lucid dreams like that as well! I also can feel and hear the intense vibrations as well when doing this. One time when it happened there were other people with me doing the same thing!
This makes me think of the Cytherians from Star Trek. They never leave their home, but bring other races to them in order to learn and exchange information.
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people; She took me right up to the front of the line where there was a woman sitting behind a desk; The lady behind the desk gave me a blank piece of paper; and as i started writing on the paper; I blacked out and i was back in my body; My whole entire body was hurting like when you sit on your foot for too long and it feels painfully numb; except a million times worse; And i was just breathing really hard and fast like i stopped breathing for a long time; after 15 minutes the pain went away
Tks Fkkkening. No I was meaning a different part...not when looking down at lights.It was where she looks up and to the right and there is some elongated shape there and then the loud noises happen and off again into tunnel. Perhaps it is supposed to replicate the docking station as in the novel....but if so is out of sequence....
I don't get why people keep bashing this movie. How did they build a second machine in total secrecy? Everyone was concentrating on the hugely publicised one in Cape Canaverel! Oh, and it wasn't Hadden that "built" the second machine! He was just letting Ellie know about it. He says "First rule of government spending - Why build one when you can build two?" - That's *government* spending. Not him on his lonesome self bashing some steel into shape!
These special effects stand up 25 years later... which is absolutely AMAZING!
Jodie Foster carries this movie on her shoulders. Even the effects become irrelevant because she transmits those feelings so vividly. Amazing actress
i love it, her character was too complex for the average audience to grasp. Jodie is amazing!
@@hparas1 yesssssssssss
1:04 “ I’m gonna try and keep recording “ god bless her that’s the UA-cam spirit 👍
HAHAHAHAHA I'M YELLING 🤣
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"Oh God! OooOooOooOoo!" 0:50 (Looks down to her lower right) "Oh hell! Nothing but static! It's not recording anything. This is not going to look good when I get back."
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The part that always struck me was that the trip was only bumpy and violent because of human beings contribution to the original plans (the chair). It's just like humanity to complicate things under the guise of believing we know better
Wow, thanks for pointing that out!!
Very astute.
Palmer Josh gave her that compass necklace saying "it might save your life one day" . And indeed it did, when it came loose it showed the occupant was much safer floating in zero gravity than to be tied to the machine and get crushed.
it’s simply a matter of your honesty. Ai guess @trust is sort of a lost cause. It seems like rather starting with a clean slate until proven marred, instead the process starts with being marred up by someone, then observing how u clean it up. If that’s where we’re all at, if that’s are default go to MO, it’s not ideal for our species
I think it’s more of a matter of attracting like minds, the way mile or cream might separate
I saw this when it first came out. This scene blew my mind. I actually cried. The way they captured the vastness.. the wonder and possibility. We’re so small. We’re a speck. A grain of sand. There’s so much we don’t know.
you also see a space ship
and what we aren't
"Contact" came out the same year as "Titanic", 1997. That was a great year for motion pictures.
I can't believe this is from 1997, it's just so incredible.
it was ahead of its time.
still is
Carl Sagan knew when he wrote the novel way back in the 1980's...we are not alone...sleep well Carl....you inspired generations of knowledge hungry children to marvels at the wonders of the universe...RIP Carl Sagan...gone but not forgotten.
@Carl Green ow i wondered that either. But i think when that transport falling to water that all things happening and its take a few seconds on earth. She could see two alternatives that ball falls to water and theyre coming to get her out and the other reality as that space thing lol i hope i told what i want to say
@Tyson Fury#1 Always though it was some alien satellite or some spacecraft.
It is interesting to note that the chair was not part of the design sent by the aliens, and it is the only part of the device that was shaky. The moment she got off that chair, the ride was smooth.
Not only that, but had she stayed seated she would have likely died when the seat flew into the ceiling.
Fantastic film but probably the most underrated Sci-Fi film ever.
One of my favorites after 2001 A Space Odyssey.and Alien.
seriously underrated and seriously misunderstood.
100% agree
0:57 just realised the whole time her monitor shows static which is exactly what mission control told her when she got back.
even though the movie is a shadow of the book, it always makes me feel depressed that i've wasted my life whenever i see it. i regret that the younger awe filled version of me who was fascinated by the stars didn't double down and do everything to get a career in astronomical science or aeronautics. in any case i do feel jodie foster made for a perfect ellie, and i can live vicariously through this and carl sagan's writing.
Oh please. Living vicariously through anybody is a pathetic waste time. You want experiences? Go out and make your own.
EmptyMan000 happy i can offend you so strongly with my earnest comment!
Even if you had earned a degree in it, it's very difficult to get a career in astronomy or anything similar. Aerospace engineering, yes that's more likely, but usually only with the military or with aircraft manufacturers.
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Always loved how the singularity in the machine pulls everything to it. Air, clouds, ocean, ships. "And this kids is what happens when you make a miniature black hole on a planet surface"
I don't know how I've never noticed the clouds being pulled in before, I must've seen this movie a dozen times. What an awesome detail, thanks for pointing it out! "Contact" is such a criminally underrated gem.
To create a miniature wormhole you need mass any experiment or pratical device you could create or Earth would dissipate in a matter of nanoseconds through hawking radiations...
Has anyone run the numbers as to how much of Earth's atmosphere is lost per machine usage?
Im reading the comments and WOW. Everyone is nice and intelligent and moved by this scene. Refreshing to say the least.
I think Carl Sagan who wrote this in the mid-eighties did so much to enlighten us to the wonders of the universe with his early 80's tv show Cosmos..it certainly awoke a passion in me to know all that is knowable...R.I.P. Carl
This is an incredible movie, and this scene particularly is incredible. For a movie made in 1997, it's breath taking.
There is ancient portal network that our Secret Space Programs discovered, but humans are not fit to travel ... it gives headache and dizziness to people. So SSPs create their own portal network.
This movie alone made me research Carl Sagan. Reading some of his works & learning about him had a bigger impact on my personal well being than the bible ever did.
It will always be ahead of its time .
" they are alive "
That little part in the scene that shows the lights down there and she says "They're alive" still scares me to this day. I always think about that part when I'm flying on a plane at night and look down out of the window. Something about it. Terrifying.
This really is one of the most awesome scenes in any Sci-fi I have seen!
One of the best sci-fi movies of all time!
If not thee. To me it’s the best. Because of the way it makes me feel.
There will never be a perfect moment, when you do drop into the deep end of the unknown, go feet first.
R.I.P Mr Carl Sagan....your wisdom is sorely missed
The scene she sees at 2:40 (the quadruple star system above a planet) is almost identical to a poster she had on her wall further back in the movie when she was staying at the Aricebo telescope. Cool little detail when you realise that the aliens were constructing the journey from her memories.
This scene makes me cry and get chills, its so god damned good!
watched this last night, never even heard of it until few days ago, stumbled across it randomly. and oh dam!! what a film!!
why dont they make more time travel/space movies like this more often. the whole movie builds up to this scene and gotta say its defo not dissapointing.
one fact of this travel scene is that no oxygen mask required, because the trip is at the speed of light, it keeps seconds in true time and space and the brain has all the oxygen needed for fuctioning.....best movie i ever saw !!!
To clarify here, in the book the journey was actually set up like a tour of various types of star systems, stopping briefly at each. Singles, binaries, Trinaries, etc.
I hope that when I die this journey will bring my soul to heaven....no pain, just a beautiful understanding.
I would literally have a heart attack if I was in her place and saw myself falling into that sinkhole in space at 0:55
this scene is amazing.
omg. her face as shes looking at the floating compass is priceless XD
Ellie Arroway dropping in to the wormhole: "OOhhhh GOOOD" 😄
@whatsina1 The second stop looks like a civilization, from that altitude they don't look much different from our own cities, which I believe is the message that part was trying to portray.
loved this movie!! thnx for uploading.
It's interesting that Matthew Mcconaughey went through a similar experience many years later in Interstellar
I watched this scene once while I was stoned, it was epic! lol
It is bro! Hahaha
Top 10 scenes to watch stoned
one of the best scenes ive ever seen, just a great and enlightnening film
Seriously this movie is great. This movie does not get enough love!
The chair wasn't in the alien designs. There's a scene where Ellie (Jodie Foster) is arguing that it should be removed, but the human designers said they wanted some sort of protection for the traveller. The implication is that it was a huge mistake and they should have trusted the alien design: if she hadn't gotten out of the chair she would probably have been killed when it hit the wall.
my favorite movie! love this scene
Greatest sci fi film ever
Does anybody have ANY IDEA how fucking awesome this would be. ANYBODY?!?!?!?
No because no one would probably survive the trip.
I saw this movie three times with different friends back in 1997. Only movie to repeat this.
All time fav’s! 💜✨💫🔥
Gracias Carl Sagan y Jodie Foster por esta maravillosa película.
Best view you can get of a wormhole. Love this movie.
this is what my near death experience looked like
They're Alive
@GTRPrime "If you believe there's nothing up his sleeve, then nothing is cool"
Gotta love when REM, a band, puts it into perspective.
This scene is probably the best depiction of a wormhole that humxnity has.
At 0:45, you can see that the wormhole is passing through Red Vega.
BEST MOVIE EVER!!!!!
Epicnerd73 This is so cool to see! I'm researching blackhole scenes for an animated "3D Branding" project and came across this thread on Contact. I've really loved "Contact" since I read the book and then the film. So fantastic! Totally agree with the person that said most "underrated" SciFi film of all time -- even though it was quite revered. Still, not enough. I totally loved this movie and will always consider it in my top 5. (right up there will all the big ones that everyone knows)
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I love this movie as well. I have the book, out of print copy in fact. Very inspirational.
its simply amazing to me how 18 hours could be that long elsewhere...but only 1 or 2 seconds EARTH time.
"Plus it's also entirely possible that Ellie experienced the beach scene in her mind, when the aliens were communicating telepathically.
They knew that humans are emotionally delicate creatures, and that Ellie as a human entity would have physical/emotional stress from spacetime travel. So a more personal approach might though breaching cultural human privacy mental space but be more effective.
'They know humans are not socially/politically/technologically advanced enough to handle the implications of this technology (seeing as they historically destroy and colonize each other and use scientific knowledge for uneven gain), but are individually empathetic creatures that can handle and trust in universally understood emotional minding coping mechanisms for comfort'
"Similar to how an empathetic human would move a single ant away from the colony for curiosity's sake for five minute study, and gently give small crumbs and use subtle smell/pheromones to communicate with said single ant before returning it back to its colony.
The human would not use spoken human vocal human language to the ant, because an ant would not comprehend that. When the ant returns, in what form do they communicate: "The Large Being Above treated me gently and brought me beyond the hill. There is a colony beyond you cannot even imagine the size and system of" Would the other ants believe this? Hard to say!"
A gentle human who studies ants would do this. A careless human would stick its hand into the anthill and get bitten, or step into the anthill."
How is fuck could you dislike this...
ahhhh, I remember watching this on basic cable some years ago when I was in middle school. Ahhhhh, It feels so good to find out the name of a movie that I didnt know. *sniff* its just like what happened to me and the Fifth Element
I watched this today and it is the best movie about extra terrestrial life ever. From what I'm told, the author of the book wrote a lot of non fiction on the subject of astronomy.
wow!!!i guess,in order ti understand this scene one have to be a good physics student....love it..am gonna watch this 2day...
One of the best films ever. Its interesting how riots on the streets were covered. I believe we humans are better than the perception.
ImortalMonster1 Right? I think there might be panic at first but it wouldn't be riots in the streets.
Here we are in 2021....... No, apparently we are not better than the perception.
This must have been something to see on the big screen.
I really need to see this movie.
I loved the callback to the notion that the cheap compass from the Cracker Jack box could save Ellie's live - which it did.
This scene uses the radio stunning format from "92.7 Kiss FM" in Chicago, IL and "Energy 92.7/101.1" in Phoenix, AZ.📡📻
I don't know if anybody else caught it. Fosters' character in the book and the movie was an avowed atheist... yet the first thing she screams while traveling through the worm-hole is 'OH GOD!'
never noticed this before.. she has that projection saying "there alive" then seconds later she says that.. is this saying that time was distorted and that projection was from the future even if it was by seconds?
Yeah- Time and space were essentially "broken" at the core of the machine.
Past present and future were all existing at the same time because of the singularity. :)
I just realized that for the first time looking at this clip. I've seen the film a million times.
Final Fantasy VII from the same year, had a wormhole like scene very similar to this at its end too.
@jimahr She didn't travel through space but hyperspace (wormhole). Relative to the earth-bound observer she went 18 hours into the past and back to the very moment she left. Hyperspace theoretically allows travel to the past as you actually go faster than light, connecting two points in space which would normally take much longer through "normal" space at the speed of light. I think for reasons of not violating causation, Sagan made her come back to earth's present.
I loved this movie high :)
Beautiful
@unreal1298 I think one of the many points this film is trying to say, is that, one person listened to the universe, when no body else was interested and heard a message from space. Then she gets to go and after coming back after making contact no one will listen to her still.
This is one of the most beautiful SF-movies ever. Intelligent, thoughtful, realistic (as far as it can be given its speculative subject) and visually beautiful.
This is so beautful and powerful, I feel like crying!
I always do when she morphs into her younger self
Wow, that giant space-station looking thing at 2:00 is awe inspiring. Amazing but so creepy at the same time.
Of course they hear you! All you're doing is just traveling through the universe.
@Starbat88 everyone did, but giving them a physical form would just be the result of whatever artists designed them. By using a construct of Ellen's memories, we're able to 'see' the alien while still having a bridge to our own society to relate with. It makes sense considering how many different races they send out these messages to; they don't know if they'll be hostile when they arrive to meet them, showing them a form they're familiar with reduces the likelihood of hostility.
@Biotektan The reason she got out of the chair was because her necklace was drifting in the air so calmly while her chair was shivering violently. Besides, it's a good thing she got out before the chair hit the ceiling lol
That chair was a huge mistake!! Cool vid...Great movie.
The moment when Ellie realises that she can float free inside the spaceship thingy without the need for a chair. In fact if she had stayed in that dammed chair she would have been dashed to pieces. By the way the Vegans never mentioned a chair in their transmission.
IT'S A SERIES OF THEM!!!!
0:27 gravity distortion
0:54 black hole natural relay
1:20 only without mass the photon reacts
1:32 reaches the second galaxy
2:00 artifical antique relay station
2:12 time distortion
2:50 alien planet
4:30
semi-transparent material
good catch at 2:00. I ended up here trying to find that element of the book, and at 2:02 I was pretty sure I found it, and your timeline seems to agree with that. Though perhaps we are not inferring the same thing as you refer to it as the 'relay station'. What I was looking for was the planet sized 'globe' in space she sees that is covered by all sorts of various shapes of radio telescope pointing in 360 degrees. And while the image at 2:02 does not look quite like that, I think they are trying to picture radio telescopes of a sort. Or perhaps what is shown at 2:50 is a attempt at a planet full of radio telescopes.
I Love This Movie
many underlying themes in regards to science religion and faith in general, as she passes through the first wormhole she screams OH GOD..just letting you know
the whole movie dealt with science and religion and how contact with aliens would stir up conflict between the two (the scene where the religious nutcase blows himself up with the machine), but also how science and religion can coexist (joss accepting that arroway really did have contact with aliens).
I doubt that screaming oh god would mean anything to the average joe or jane though. I reckon I'm an atheist and I use 'Oh God' and 'Jesus Christ' a fair bit, when my sailor mouth isn't running itself off though haha, and I doubt I'm the only one to as well.
M M oh god is an expression of surprise or frightness
@avedic YES! I have had lucid dreams like that as well! I also can feel and hear the intense vibrations as well when doing this. One time when it happened there were other people with me doing the same thing!
I tell you, this was a mindbender when I was around 8 years old. (Not so much now.)
Hell yeah, is like going through a wormhole and then well i started to think a lot about myself
OOOOH GOD!!!! Even an atheist like her calls upon Him in a moment like that
well yeah its an expression as much as its literal.
This makes me think of the Cytherians from Star Trek. They never leave their home, but bring other races to them in order to learn and exchange information.
Make it all a thematic roller coaster experience!!
ASTRAL TRIP !!
The end of this film is very similar to astral travel through a tunnel of light. It's very intense !!
Believe it or not!
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people;
She took me right up to the front of the line where there was a woman sitting behind a desk;
The lady behind the desk gave me a blank piece of paper;
and as i started writing on the paper; I blacked out and i was back in my body;
My whole entire body was hurting like when you sit on your foot for too long and it feels painfully numb;
except a million times worse;
And i was just breathing really hard and fast like i stopped breathing for a long time;
after 15 minutes the pain went away
A trip to see Grandmother
Smiling, indeed it was at other times. This one is a trip to visit Dad.. CJ x Melbourne Victoria Australia STRAYA Southern HEMISPHERE
A Great Movie !
Right on man.
it's beautiful.....they're alive...
how did they made such graphics at that time! ?
really awesome ;)
Couldn't shut my eyes during this whole scene..... at the end of it my eyes were so dry my contact's fell out.LOL
Tks Fkkkening.
No I was meaning a different part...not when looking down at lights.It was where she looks up and to the right and there is some elongated shape there and then the loud noises happen and off again into tunnel. Perhaps it is supposed to replicate the docking station as in the novel....but if so is out of sequence....
@Illiyuwn very cool! I've heard of other people who do this too. Makes me wonder about the whole Out of Body experience.
I don't get why people keep bashing this movie. How did they build a second machine in total secrecy? Everyone was concentrating on the hugely publicised one in Cape Canaverel!
Oh, and it wasn't Hadden that "built" the second machine! He was just letting Ellie know about it. He says "First rule of government spending - Why build one when you can build two?" - That's *government* spending. Not him on his lonesome self bashing some steel into shape!
Great movie, tight post
nice scene this is what one can imagin what is wormhole
Jodie Foster is such a good actress!
Love Jody Foster and CONTACT. CJ x JEAN 9.12 am Tuesday 27th September 2022