Analysis Of The Movie Contact

Part I of Essay
The Warner Bros. movie Contact, based on the novel by famous Astronomer Carl Sagan, is a fascinating journey through the human mind and attempts to answer the question that humans have been asking since the dawn of time, "Are we alone in the Universe?" The movie describes ....

Part II of Essay
.... falls back on faith to believe her journey took place upon her return after having shunned faith that others had in God before. The movie did not deal with the Cold War politics that Sagan's book dealt with mainly because of the release date of this movie. The movie was made well after the end of the Cold War and the efforts to build a space pod for space travel is depicted as being an international effort. The feasibility of the events in Contact is not too far from reality. The movie makes the assumption that the alien civilizatio ....