Contact
1997
film · 1997 · 13 min read
Contact
The Machine as Bridge Between Reason and Faith
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Sagan's novel — and Zemeckis's film — poses the one question science and religion agree cannot be answered by either alone: what if contact with intelligence beyond us reveals not answers, but the inadequacy of every framework we've used to ask questions? Ellie goes. She comes back with nothing verifiable. She knows what she knows.
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