One of the best written, best constructed films ever made. Carl Sagan was a genius on so many levels. Jodie Foster is one of the best actors in existence. Those points combined with the true artistry in this film makes it by far one of the richest pieces of cinematographic art ever created. (In my simple opinion)
It's a good movie, but let's be real Hollywood turned an amazing vision into a somewhat disappointing narrative. The design is certainly remarkable though. It's tough to make a good movie after 6 directors and multiple studios get their paws all over every creative decision.
Jodi Foster's acting was terrible in this movie. I was 12 years old when this movie came out and just watched it for the first time. I loved the movie. Didn't love her acting.
@@runegeezy Yeah , thought the same as well. I could understand and felt her nervous excitement when they first received the signal but 18 months later when she was in front of the selection panel she was still giving exact same performance, all the shaky , nervous mannerisms. I mean come on, the entire world had 18 months to come to terms with it yet she was the only one acting like it had just happened yesterday. Plus the way she was talking to the kids at the end of the film was super cringe.
This is one of the most thoughtful and insightful reviews on deeper film meanings I think I've ever seen. In keeping with the rebirth symbolism, I would offer the following possibilities. 1) The transport pod symbolizes more of a womb, rather than a gas chamber. 2) The chair may not be an electric chair but rather a means for Ellie to assume a modified fetal position while in the capsule. This would mimic the position of a baby of in a womb prior to its own birth. 3) The wires plugged into Ellie represent an umbilical cord to sustain her, rather than a means to kill her. 4) The periodic updates given by the mission control staff as to the status of the machine (10%, 20%, 30%, etc.) mirror the increasing dilation of women in labor (1 cm dilated, 2cm dilated, 3cm dilated, etc.). 5) The wormhole sequence mirrors the new life traveling through a birth canal. 6) The capsule takes on a liquid form to symbolizes the protective amniotic fluid to keep the new life safe. 7) After Ellie’s “birth”, the first person she sees is her father. 8) This rebirth scene is enhanced by considering Ellie's mother died from complications of childbirth when Ellie was born. This backstory enhances Ellie's natural reluctance to be reborn as her initial birth killed her mother, and permanently altered her life. There’s undeniably imagery of execution and rebirth simultaneously occurring within the same frames! The filmmakers did an outstanding of capturing some very compelling storytelling while inserting remarkable symbolism. I look forward to seeing more reviews from this channel. Thank you!
I too believe that there is more to analyze here about the rebirth. There's the compass which is a symbol of love in her life, which helps her take the leap from science to having faith in something more; there's going into her eye and therefore into her subconscious, followed by the void where she's in a fetal position. She is being given the gift of knowledge and wisdom and then told to return. All of this also parallels to the Hero's Journey too. Once she's back, there's the obvious question posed to her, something like, "Do you mean we're supposed to take this on on faith?" to which she replies. "yes" and offers that she might have made it all up, but that she can't change her story. She's changed. Anyone else know about the symbolism behind the Vega star.
I had a dream that i was a Hooded Jesus Figure in Black in an ocean Waving to who knows to Join. Me Jesus in the water with the Scene were Her father is Walking towards her but she cannot make it out the watery Silhouette.The dream has the Stars and Everything in it.Cool dream but on to the Symbolism of Vega my Feeling is the Fact the A Star is So many light years away then we see it to our reality Here 3D is a Miracle and Science explains it Simple sort of Right i would say the Vega Symbolism is Earth always Changing right before our very eyes seen and Unseen like the Stars we see but they're millions of Light years already.Everything is Everything has been everything will be mysteries of Creation so to speak We are Stars Too Maybe cause The Swastika and all that there is to attach the Symbol too, But off the bat the movie takes you away from any history of that Swastika symbol.its a Alien movie kinda nobody dwell on it.So the Vega Symbolism or Star rather is to me Saying we are always living immortal like millions of Light years till we see a star.Our being is a Locomotive light-year ba da bing ba da boom 🤯💥....every atom in our bodies was once part of a Star.
I love how everything is shaking so violently, and it's shaking HER since she's so strapped into this ridged core structure. but then she just sees her compass gently floating, steady, not shaking like everything else around her, this is literally shaking her current beliefs she's harnessed into, and when she unclasps it's hold on her, she can float gently out into center of this shaking pod while she's stable and untouched. And if she hadn't have gotten out that chair would have snapped with her IN IT and crashed her into the ceiling as well.
Really good breakdown mate. On an even more esoteric level, at 8:20, she's inside a perfect sphere within a dodecahedron, one of the five Platonic solids that represents the classical element of Spirit. So she's going on a Sprit-ual journey as well as a fun wormhole trip
8:40 But don't forget before she said "Oh God" she kept repeating a sentence until that sentence became her last, weakest thing she says before being dropped through the tunnel of light: "I'm okay to go..." - dang, goosebumps!
Pretty cool breakdown on the movie... As a matter of fact, if I remember correctly the chair was added and wasn't part of the design and talked about in the movie too. That's why she didn't slam into the ceiling but the chair did
I love when movies have layers to fillet like this Contact has been one of my All Time favorite movies since I was 14 because of the dialogue and subject matter. As the layers are peeled back you realize how deep the production values go. Some of these metaphorical representations may have just been coincidences, some others may have been very intentional.
That has been and still is my favourite movie. It’s a shame Carl Sagan wasn’t there to finish it. Spot on analysis of the archetypes and symbols that came to life with Contact’s immaculate industrial design 👌🏻
Ironically, I always saw Ellie as a Christ-like figure, sacrificing herself/her life for humanity. I also think she had more faith than any character we encountered in the story, she just didn't call it that, because of the negative connotation and stigma traditionally attached to faith.
Sandra Bullock did a good job with the same symbolism in the movie Gravity - from a person who had completely lost faith, to someone who was able to find it again.
The seat. Has anyone ever considered that the seat broke **because** she got out of it? Her body dramatically changes the resonant frequency of any object, especially an open metallic cantilever structure like the seat was. The change in resonance from her getting out of it put it more in sync with the vibes already there which amplified them and led to the failure of the mount.
Yes. This movie has so many layers. Both in scientific vs beliefs and the character's battle with other characters who are not on same level and opposite to her own.
Actually... The only reason that Science and Spirituality seem to be at odds with each other is because we have been trying to put Science in a box. If we let it out, we will find that Science and Spirituality are very harmonious and explain one another. Some day, our understanding will merge the two together seamlessly.
Wow! He completely missed the McGuffin at 9:04, namely the toy compass that links her to her love interest in the movie, played by Matthew McConaughey. Earlier in the film he gives it to her, but then she gives it back, saying, "It might save your life someday." He later scuttles her plans to be on that machine, because he loves her and doesn't want to lose her. This created a rift between them, but the first attempt would've killed her if she had been on it, because of a terrorist. However, Haddon industries built another one McConaughey couldn't do anything about. So, on the eve of her newfound opportunity he gave her that toy compass, and indeed it saved her life.
Your very comment here is a microcosm of the movie. You praise God for this analysis and then damn his name. Will you believe and embrace his reality even though there seems to be no proof? or will you deny him and embrace only empirical evidence in the science? Where will your "death journey" take you Leanna Glance?
I don't remember when I subbed to your channel but I am GODDAMN HAPPY THAT I DID. I've seen Contact so many times, and while I feel that I've picked up on more than a few of the design cues embedded throughout, your ability and knowledge to tease these elements from the screen leaves me feeling simultaneously stunned and illuminated. Thank you.
But she's never angry or rigid in the movie. That chair is put in there by mission planners. It isn't in the alien design and she suggests they leave it out. I agree with the rebirth idea, but the transformative experience Ellie undergoes isn't about scientism. I admit I don't know what it is about though.
In the book she went with several other scientists and they all had their own separate experiences meeting the aliens, with their own manifestations of the surrounding environment. I preferred that to the movie, gave it a lot more substance I think.
Something I’ve noticed in the dialogue of this film that I have yet to see anyone comment on. Every time someone in the film refers to religion or spirituality as a counter for the scientific argument they always do so by using a personal or directed claim of religion; “MY God”, “YOUR God”. Even during the committee questioning Ellie before she is supposed to go on the first machine one committee member makes a claim about the other 95% of the world believing in some kind of God but there never is a consensus by anyone that there is one true God in the film. This presents a problem with those deciding who goes…must you believe that God exists, and if so who decides which God? If Drumlin was a Christian was it fair to the candidate who was a Hindu? Does the Jewish candidate get to go over the person that practices Islam?
The 'higher power intervened' was a wise crack to indicate that Palmer Joust (a religious man) had gotten him in there. I would have thought the glance from Palmer would have made that obvious.
This is the first time I've considered that Ellie's 'dad' on Vega was actually an alien. I've always thought it WAS her dad, who survived in some other dimension and told her a little about time, space, space travel, and other civilizations. I still think it was her real dad. Another possibility I considered was that her dad was an alien to begin with.
I found the Book quite Boring, far too many pages wasted on Religious Nonsense. I really can't understand why people will reject Science, but readily accept a Figment of their Imagination is Real
Great stuff Mike. There's a youtuber called Jonathan Pageau who has been analysing film through the lens of symbology that you might find interesting. His video on Logan is excellent
Sadden by how few have reaction watched this impressive film. Soundtrack now difficult to find and is not cheap. I actually found the patch from the film, and is on a white cap now.
Это увидит такую красоту вокруг себя. Такое красивое небо не описать словами, как это всё красиво, когда об этом говорит, как красиво. Как всё красиво была бы я там, я бы осталась навсегда, всегда она потом на всё это время говорила, если бы можно было, я бы осталась здесь навсегда, как же тут красиво, как красиво произносила эти слова.
Now, amongst all these different levels of impressive production... ...how much can attributed to our author, Carl Sagan...and how much to those involved in the adaptation..??
Awesome. I just had my first mushroom experience and i couldn't help thinking about this and "arrival" movies when it ended. I feel a little bit like this film is a bit about that as well.
This story certainly has its share of Creepy Conmen. The Weasel with the Moustache, who pushes Ellie under the Bus(I was overjoyed when he Perished with the First Machine), and the Snake Oil Bible Thumper, played by Matthew McConaughey
Well who is that guy talking in the video?! Whoever ujploaded this video why hasn't he/she included the name of him in the title or in the description box?!
I think it’s important to acknowledge the fact that the chair wasn’t in the original schematics for the machine, humans added it in because we thought it was safe and then in that scene the chair smacks to the roof of the pod in which could have killed her if she didn’t let go
Люди перепугались там, потому что какой-то яркая вспышка, как-то все ру стёкла то, что там что-то происходит взрывы, какие-то она где-то теряется связь плохо лов, не слышит никто её, только все пуг, что-то происходит вспышки. Яркого света и всё такое ощущение что сейчас раз и всё об этом
И вот пошло в этот момент капсула падает, она видит какие-то тоннели есть как будто что-то затягивает куда-то и всё, и начинается этот момент, как страшно её, тоннель тянет её, туда, внутрь, какие-то дыры, какие-то чёрные дыры, какие-то чёрные дыры её. Потом тишина, потом опять какие-то тоннели, опять начинается всё заново, как ей тяжело, как тяжело это всё воспроизвести, что она пытается это камеры, всё и ничего не происходит, это вообще очень, очень страшно ей самой было, вот она пыталась писать. Всю, всю суть этого всего, вот и она в тоннеле попадала, то 1 тоннель, то другая тоннель, ну и очень страшно ей было.
Наконец-то она здесь отрывается от земли и попадает в невесомость и такая тишина сразу, и всё потом вокруг, так красиво интересно. И этот сиденье падает, но она, слава Богу, она всё-таки остаётся как будто в невесомости и видит такую красоту неизвестно, где и как она туда попадает тоже очень причина всё это как-то это всё интересное кино. Я верю что она долго отсутствовала другие не верили не верят в это а я верю что она долго отсутство на земле она где то была далеко отсюда
This is like a guy putting a bunch of rotten pumpkins next to a vineyard and a few years later another guy says that some wine from those vines has 'autumn notes'. 🙄
I believe the sphere she uses to transport in is more of an Egg then a Coffin. It's round as an egg would be , not monolith or coffin shaped. It's rebirth...not death.
You did watch a different film then. Even the last 15 minutes of the film reiterate that her stiff materialistic views have changed because of her experience.
Notice they call her El just like in Stranger Things. Interesting that both this chair and the show Stranger Things are storied to be connected to Montauk.
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Long before movies, writers like Lewis Carrol ( ALICE IN WONDER,AND HUNTING THE SNARK ) used complex mathematicallg-based logic to embed second, third and even fourth level "meanings" into their Works. Fatuous interpretation often coloured by religious bias only obscures what the author is trying to say !
В этот момент она говорит, что она готова и что по отчёта, я готова, я готова постоянно повторяла, готова со мной всё хорошо, вот и вот она попадает то что-то с ней происходит. Тишина, потом опять какие-то тонне она летит, что это такое, потом отрывается от земли куда-то падает, и она как будто невесомость появляется она по этому месту, вот и я такую красоту. Что планеты она видит, она видит изображение планет? Всё так спокойно интересно давайте посмотрим а дальше
Это очень интересное кино, Вега, да это вот именно то место, куда она хотела попасть в вегу, и она мечтала увидеть отца своего, она мечтала о том, чтобы он появился, она видела там такую красоту не. Словами, что там происходило не описать словами, как это было тяжело писать всё это ей, вот она настолько интересно было, настолько всё это было интригующе хороший фильм, хороший фильм интересный, столько всего происходило и как она. Приглашена была на это всё, а потом рассказывала, никто ей не верил, что она где-то всё это пока потом детям рассказывала, как это всё происходило вот такое кино интересное. Интригующее и очень интересно смотреть его, оно спокойное и интересное, во всём интересное, это кино романтичное, и такое во всём интересное, а вот. Оказывается, это брат её был, как я поняла от неё, что брат был нелюб, нет ни в коем случае её был, и у него была собака, которая его водила везде, вот так поняла, что да. А тут я как-то немножко не поняла, но всё равно я как-то смогла это кино, контакт настолько интересное, настолько интересно его только смотреть, не пересмотреть это каждый кадр каждой версии, как её взяли это всё, это всё она. Пытался воспроизвести, как это всё она пыталась показать, там было всё красиво, там было столько планет, как будто это всё и там была река, там пляж, она видела черртание человека бежит к ней, и она разглядела, что это её отец, он говорил, что у нас тут много. Мы ещё здесь знаем, это совсем другая страна, это другое место, это даже больше, чем мы сами пытался ей рассказать, вот такое кино поглядеть, и вы поймёте, как это тяжело изначально, это всё понять просто была, как она ловила. А в компьютере ловила эти все волны, как она это всё рассказывала, какие-то всё интересно, всё это было такое кино, настолько оно интересное. И приятная во всём.
И она всем говорила, что я готова, я готов испытать это всё, всё, может быть, не будет испытывать на себе это всё и это момент, как она идёт к этой капсуле, как она волнуется, переживает, всё ли получится. Это всё что она увидит это вообще тяжёлое но оно интересное интересное все что там происходит кад за кадром потихоньку всё расскажу
Она говорит, я готова, я готова, и всё так страшно боялась прям какие-то тоннели бесконечные тон, она не могла понять, где она, что с ней, как она чувствует себя, что происходит дальше ей очень тяжело понять, что происходит мне её тоже жалко. Что с ней было правда это кино даже мелодраму драму мелодраму даже на 3 можно сказать 3 версии до этого кино подходит хорошо
I commented awhile back on this video and see it's disappeared. Well I can't find it anyway. This scene is pretty much a cinematic representation of the Baptism experience. Its also described quite well in the Bardo thodol especially the english interpretation, "The Psychedelic Experience ~ A manual based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead". It was pretty wild my Baptism, not so much because what I experienced which was crazy but because I had no idea what i had experienced. It was like being slap without seeing the hand. The following day I watched this movie and seen how much it paralleled what I experienced. There's so much in this experience that is explained through the Gospel of Thomas. For instance the part where she unstraps from the chair, "Mary said to Jesus, "Whom are Your disciples like?" He said, "They are like children who have settled in a field which is not theirs. When the owners of the field come, they will say, 'Let us have back our field.' They (will) undress in their presence in order to let them have back their field and give it back to them. Therefore I say to you, if the owner of a house knows that the thief is coming, he will begin his vigil before he comes and will not let him into his house of his domain to carry away his goods. You, then, be on your guard against the world. Arm yourselves with great strength lest the robbers find a way to come to you, for the difficulty which you expect will (surely) materialize. Let there be among you a man of understanding. When the grain ripened, he came quickly with his sickle in his hand and reaped it. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear." This is talking about ego and how in that moment when you face your maker you must give back what is his. Just let go and everything will be ok. Don't fear the death because all is one.
Какие-то якобы что-то какой-то пожар, то какие-то разряды ей страшно, не страх такой в глаза яркобит в глазах всё, может быть, ей только это всё, никто не мог она якобы упала, и всё и больше ничего не. Ходила, как она с этой капсулой упала вместе, и всё вот как это всё было. Вот мне тоже было не страшно, я смотрела тоже, мне было страшно с ник тяжёлые бед, как она боялась, кричала бедненько, как я боялась за не как бы не с ней. Сердечный приступ не произошёл вот как всё страшно было правда
I believe that Carl Sagan was an atheist most of his adult life. But the clues to a "deeper meaning" in this movie and the book hint at an enlightenment later in his life. The book and movie seemed to parallel Carl's life and his desire to attach meaning to the universe in his last years. There must be other life because "it would be a waste of space" for their not to be. Carl is deeply missed.
I think the message of the book and the movie is consistent with Carl’s atheism. Ellie doesn’t become religious at the end of the movie, any more than Palmer loses his faith - they both realize that the universe is full of wonder and awe and a humility-inspiring transcendence that neither of them can fully explain, and they realize that, in this, they understand each other and can share this experience with each other. Carl was always nuanced in his atheism, and I think this book/movie exemplify his spirit and attitude toward the natural world and toward our attempts to make sense of it. For Sagan, the universe was an awe-inspiring place, and we ought to be humble as we seek to understand it. If you have a chance to watch the 1980 series Cosmos, I highly recommend it. You’ll see these same themes, the same sentiments, in that series, from years earlier. His book The Demon Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Dark also lays out his case for having the kind of humility that Ellie discovers by the end of the movie.
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One of the best written, best constructed films ever made. Carl Sagan was a genius on so many levels. Jodie Foster is one of the best actors in existence. Those points combined with the true artistry in this film makes it by far one of the richest pieces of cinematographic art ever created. (In my simple opinion)
It's a good movie, but let's be real Hollywood turned an amazing vision into a somewhat disappointing narrative. The design is certainly remarkable though. It's tough to make a good movie after 6 directors and multiple studios get their paws all over every creative decision.
want to know something mind blowing???????
THe movie ends halfway.... the book has more, just finished reading it..... its mindblowing
more levels than most realise
Jodi Foster's acting was terrible in this movie. I was 12 years old when this movie came out and just watched it for the first time. I loved the movie. Didn't love her acting.
@@runegeezy Yeah , thought the same as well. I could understand and felt her nervous excitement when they first received the signal but 18 months later when she was in front of the selection panel she was still giving exact same performance, all the shaky , nervous mannerisms. I mean come on, the entire world had 18 months to come to terms with it yet she was the only one acting like it had just happened yesterday. Plus the way she was talking to the kids at the end of the film was super cringe.
This is one of the most thoughtful and insightful reviews on deeper film meanings I think I've ever seen. In keeping with the rebirth symbolism, I would offer the following possibilities. 1) The transport pod symbolizes more of a womb, rather than a gas chamber. 2) The chair may not be an electric chair but rather a means for Ellie to assume a modified fetal position while in the capsule. This would mimic the position of a baby of in a womb prior to its own birth. 3) The wires plugged into Ellie represent an umbilical cord to sustain her, rather than a means to kill her. 4) The periodic updates given by the mission control staff as to the status of the machine (10%, 20%, 30%, etc.) mirror the increasing dilation of women in labor (1 cm dilated, 2cm dilated, 3cm dilated, etc.). 5) The wormhole sequence mirrors the new life traveling through a birth canal. 6) The capsule takes on a liquid form to symbolizes the protective amniotic fluid to keep the new life safe. 7) After Ellie’s “birth”, the first person she sees is her father. 8) This rebirth scene is enhanced by considering Ellie's mother died from complications of childbirth when Ellie was born. This backstory enhances Ellie's natural reluctance to be reborn as her initial birth killed her mother, and permanently altered her life. There’s undeniably imagery of execution and rebirth simultaneously occurring within the same frames! The filmmakers did an outstanding of capturing some very compelling storytelling while inserting remarkable symbolism. I look forward to seeing more reviews from this channel. Thank you!
I too believe that there is more to analyze here about the rebirth. There's the compass which is a symbol of love in her life, which helps her take the leap from science to having faith in something more; there's going into her eye and therefore into her subconscious, followed by the void where she's in a fetal position. She is being given the gift of knowledge and wisdom and then told to return. All of this also parallels to the Hero's Journey too. Once she's back, there's the obvious question posed to her, something like, "Do you mean we're supposed to take this on on faith?" to which she replies. "yes" and offers that she might have made it all up, but that she can't change her story. She's changed. Anyone else know about the symbolism behind the Vega star.
Great comment!!
I had a dream that i was a Hooded Jesus Figure in Black in an ocean Waving to who knows to Join. Me Jesus in the water with the Scene were Her father is Walking towards her but she cannot make it out the watery Silhouette.The dream has the Stars and Everything in it.Cool dream but on to the Symbolism of Vega my Feeling is the Fact the A Star is So many light years away then we see it to our reality Here 3D is a Miracle and Science explains it Simple sort of Right i would say the Vega Symbolism is Earth always Changing right before our very eyes seen and Unseen like the Stars we see but they're millions of Light years already.Everything is Everything has been everything will be mysteries of Creation so to speak We are Stars Too Maybe cause The Swastika and all that there is to attach the Symbol too, But off the bat the movie takes you away from any history of that Swastika symbol.its a Alien movie kinda nobody dwell on it.So the Vega Symbolism or Star rather is to me Saying we are always living immortal like millions of Light years till we see a star.Our being is a Locomotive light-year ba da bing ba da boom 🤯💥....every atom in our bodies was once part of a Star.
This interpretation is biased, silly and potentially dangerous to the growth of Humanity !
Clever girl!
_Contact_ - one of my favorite films
I love how everything is shaking so violently, and it's shaking HER since she's so strapped into this ridged core structure. but then she just sees her compass gently floating, steady, not shaking like everything else around her, this is literally shaking her current beliefs she's harnessed into, and when she unclasps it's hold on her, she can float gently out into center of this shaking pod while she's stable and untouched. And if she hadn't have gotten out that chair would have snapped with her IN IT and crashed her into the ceiling as well.
i remember in the movie they mentioned how the plans didn't have a chair, but they added one anyway, because we humans think "well, we need a chair."
@@malinko35 hubris
Really good breakdown mate. On an even more esoteric level, at 8:20, she's inside a perfect sphere within a dodecahedron, one of the five Platonic solids that represents the classical element of Spirit. So she's going on a Sprit-ual journey as well as a fun wormhole trip
A Masterpiece on many levels.
Out of all the movies I’ve seen, Contact is up there with maybe two others ! A true masterpiece!
What are those other two movies?
I’m curious what other 2 movies do you mean
@@christianmorales3025 Interstellar and Inception
8:40 But don't forget before she said "Oh God" she kept repeating a sentence until that sentence became her last, weakest thing she says before being dropped through the tunnel of light: "I'm okay to go..." - dang, goosebumps!
These videos are so captivating. Some real insight into film and I can't wait to see more.
Pretty cool breakdown on the movie... As a matter of fact, if I remember correctly the chair was added and wasn't part of the design and talked about in the movie too. That's why she didn't slam into the ceiling but the chair did
I like how the aliens got humanity to build something that theologists recognize as a biblically accurate angel.
Wasn't aliens it was a billionaire who was dying that gave her the blueprint to build that thing
Nah. You're forging it.
:O
Dang, you are right. Those spinnning wheel angels
Yeah, Ezekiel’s wheel!
I love when movies have layers to fillet like this Contact has been one of my All Time favorite movies since I was 14 because of the dialogue and subject matter. As the layers are peeled back you realize how deep the production values go. Some of these metaphorical representations may have just been coincidences, some others may have been very intentional.
That has been and still is my favourite movie. It’s a shame Carl Sagan wasn’t there to finish it. Spot on analysis of the archetypes and symbols that came to life with Contact’s immaculate industrial design 👌🏻
Ironically, I always saw Ellie as a Christ-like figure, sacrificing herself/her life for humanity. I also think she had more faith than any character we encountered in the story, she just didn't call it that, because of the negative connotation and stigma traditionally attached to faith.
I see her more as Saul converting to Paul upon hearing Jesus talk to him but blinded in the process...
@@kentA205 Yes, definitely
Faith is negative? Bullshit
I’m ‘Ok to go!” reminds me of Jesus willingly going to the cross.
Sandra Bullock did a good job with the same symbolism in the movie Gravity - from a person who had completely lost faith, to someone who was able to find it again.
wow your videos about movies are amazingly deep. Thanks so much for making these!
The juxtaposition of Joan D'Arc and Ellie Arroway made me shed a tear.
The seat. Has anyone ever considered that the seat broke **because** she got out of it? Her body dramatically changes the resonant frequency of any object, especially an open metallic cantilever structure like the seat was. The change in resonance from her getting out of it put it more in sync with the vibes already there which amplified them and led to the failure of the mount.
Yes. This movie has so many layers. Both in scientific vs beliefs and the character's battle with other characters who are not on same level and opposite to her own.
Very enlightening. Thank you for this video that we can celebrate Contact’s 25th Anniversary with.
i've seen this movie billion of time..........;
Same here😂
Actually...
The only reason that Science and Spirituality seem to be at odds with each other is because we have been trying to put Science in a box. If we let it out, we will find that Science and Spirituality are very harmonious and explain one another. Some day, our understanding will merge the two together seamlessly.
Wow! He completely missed the McGuffin at 9:04, namely the toy compass that links her to her love interest in the movie, played by Matthew McConaughey. Earlier in the film he gives it to her, but then she gives it back, saying, "It might save your life someday." He later scuttles her plans to be on that machine, because he loves her and doesn't want to lose her. This created a rift between them, but the first attempt would've killed her if she had been on it, because of a terrorist. However, Haddon industries built another one McConaughey couldn't do anything about. So, on the eve of her newfound opportunity he gave her that toy compass, and indeed it saved her life.
Oh my god I love this analysis. Ugh. This is one of my favourite movies. Love love love this detailed analysis of everything. Goddamn.
Your very comment here is a microcosm of the movie. You praise God for this analysis and then damn his name. Will you believe and embrace his reality even though there seems to be no proof? or will you deny him and embrace only empirical evidence in the science? Where will your "death journey" take you Leanna Glance?
I don't remember when I subbed to your channel but I am GODDAMN HAPPY THAT I DID. I've seen Contact so many times, and while I feel that I've picked up on more than a few of the design cues embedded throughout, your ability and knowledge to tease these elements from the screen leaves me feeling simultaneously stunned and illuminated. Thank you.
does anyone know what that pod's shape is called
Idiot
Thanks for explaining the symbolic imagery. It makes me love the film even more than I already did.
But she's never angry or rigid in the movie. That chair is put in there by mission planners. It isn't in the alien design and she suggests they leave it out. I agree with the rebirth idea, but the transformative experience Ellie undergoes isn't about scientism. I admit I don't know what it is about though.
I just saw it today for the first time. Beautiful movie, never a dull second
Ah, I remember my first joint too.
In the book she went with several other scientists and they all had their own separate experiences meeting the aliens, with their own manifestations of the surrounding environment. I preferred that to the movie, gave it a lot more substance I think.
Brilliant analysis of the design of this film!
This is great, so insightful.
This is the best sci fi film
Ever
excellent analysis. My favorite of all films.
This is one of the best examples of why the internet is a good thing! 🤣
Fantastic Video 🙏
Something I’ve noticed in the dialogue of this film that I have yet to see anyone comment on. Every time someone in the film refers to religion or spirituality as a counter for the scientific argument they always do so by using a personal or directed claim of religion; “MY God”, “YOUR God”. Even during the committee questioning Ellie before she is supposed to go on the first machine one committee member makes a claim about the other 95% of the world believing in some kind of God but there never is a consensus by anyone that there is one true God in the film.
This presents a problem with those deciding who goes…must you believe that God exists, and if so who decides which God? If Drumlin was a Christian was it fair to the candidate who was a Hindu? Does the Jewish candidate get to go over the person that practices Islam?
Came here from ingersoll page. 😁
The 'higher power intervened' was a wise crack to indicate that Palmer Joust (a religious man) had gotten him in there. I would have thought the glance from Palmer would have made that obvious.
"Unhealthy scienctific dogma" 😂
That kinda flies in the face of Sagan, and the character of Ellie Arroway tbh.
Yes, hated the use of "dogma" associated with science. It's like, in ORDER to be a scientist, the No.1 step is to ditch dogma...
This is the first time I've considered that Ellie's 'dad' on Vega was actually an alien. I've always thought it WAS her dad, who survived in some other dimension and told her a little about time, space, space travel, and other civilizations. I still think it was her real dad. Another possibility I considered was that her dad was an alien to begin with.
What an amazing crackpot presentation. No mention about it being based on Carl Sagan`s book `Contact`.
Yes that was very odd...as if Sagan had nothing to do with it...
"crackpot"?
@@johnnythewalrus foolish, irrational, crazy etc
fantastic book, fantastic movie, a hint of God hidden in irrational numbers, in the fabric of the universe...Something that could never be done today.
I found the Book quite Boring, far too many pages wasted on Religious Nonsense. I really can't understand why people will reject Science, but readily accept a Figment of their Imagination is Real
@@pjimmbojimmbo1990 People are scared to admit to themselves the universe is an entity that exists separately from them
Great stuff Mike. There's a youtuber called Jonathan Pageau who has been analysing film through the lens of symbology that you might find interesting. His video on Logan is excellent
You have a link to that?
best movie i ever watched
I don't know this movie, but now it's my second scene that I see today. When her back is plug to the chair it was really credible like in real life!
Sadden by how few have reaction watched this impressive film. Soundtrack now difficult to find and is not cheap. I actually found the patch from the film, and is on a white cap now.
EXCELLENT PERSPECTIVE
Это увидит такую красоту вокруг себя. Такое красивое небо не описать словами, как это всё красиво, когда об этом говорит, как красиво. Как всё красиво была бы я там, я бы осталась навсегда, всегда она потом на всё это время говорила, если бы можно было, я бы осталась здесь навсегда, как же тут красиво, как красиво произносила эти слова.
I love this movie! So underrated
We only get 11 mins? Is there a part 2 of the video?
Now, amongst all these different levels of impressive production...
...how much can attributed to our author, Carl Sagan...and how much to those involved in the adaptation..??
Awesome.
I just had my first mushroom experience and i couldn't help thinking about this and "arrival" movies when it ended. I feel a little bit like this film is a bit about that as well.
Just meaning, not "hidden" meaning, just meaning.
Anyone else sent here by Ingersoll Lockwood?
Brilliant
🖤🖤🖤🖤 Thanks for this.
Sometimes a cigar, is just a cigar.
This story certainly has its share of Creepy Conmen. The Weasel with the Moustache, who pushes Ellie under the Bus(I was overjoyed when he Perished with the First Machine), and the Snake Oil Bible Thumper, played by Matthew McConaughey
Well who is that guy talking in the video?! Whoever ujploaded this video why hasn't he/she included the name of him in the title or in the description box?!
I think it’s important to acknowledge the fact that the chair wasn’t in the original schematics for the machine, humans added it in because we thought it was safe and then in that scene the chair smacks to the roof of the pod in which could have killed her if she didn’t let go
Good point; the full lecture includes this - ruclips.net/video/Jo53PTCvH_Y/видео.html&lc=Ugwn5lo-RZu9xEt1XPB4AaABAg
So what exactly is the message that the author wants to convey in all of this?
Good movie. I rewatch it sometimes. Same class as The Arrival. It would have been fun to have this review continue on to the alien meeting.
Words of wisdom my friend! :)
Люди перепугались там, потому что какой-то яркая вспышка, как-то все ру стёкла то, что там что-то происходит взрывы, какие-то она где-то теряется связь плохо лов, не слышит никто её, только все пуг, что-то происходит вспышки. Яркого света и всё такое ощущение что сейчас раз и всё об этом
Well, at least I agree that it's a masterpiece.
И вот пошло в этот момент капсула падает, она видит какие-то тоннели есть как будто что-то затягивает куда-то и всё, и начинается этот момент, как страшно её, тоннель тянет её, туда, внутрь, какие-то дыры, какие-то чёрные дыры, какие-то чёрные дыры её. Потом тишина, потом опять какие-то тоннели, опять начинается всё заново, как ей тяжело, как тяжело это всё воспроизвести, что она пытается это камеры, всё и ничего не происходит, это вообще очень, очень страшно ей самой было, вот она пыталась писать. Всю, всю суть этого всего, вот и она в тоннеле попадала, то 1 тоннель, то другая тоннель, ну и очень страшно ей было.
She didn't believe in God but called God in that moment.
WoW!
There is a hint to astral projection if you can get into that.. Or if you are taking psychedelics
Interesting..
Doesn't a fireman or policeman do the same exact thing each day??
Наконец-то она здесь отрывается от земли и попадает в невесомость и такая тишина сразу, и всё потом вокруг, так красиво интересно. И этот сиденье падает, но она, слава Богу, она всё-таки остаётся как будто в невесомости и видит такую красоту неизвестно, где и как она туда попадает тоже очень причина всё это как-то это всё интересное кино. Я верю что она долго отсутствовала другие не верили не верят в это а я верю что она долго отсутство на земле она где то была далеко отсюда
Я готова всё хорошо, я готова, я готова ко всему, вот-вот так происходит, вот это всё.
In the scene where Ellie floats down to the beach to me always looked like a fetus or a baby in the womb being born.
This is like a guy putting a bunch of rotten pumpkins next to a vineyard and a few years later another guy says that some wine from those vines has 'autumn notes'. 🙄
You put a lot of work into this and it shows
I believe the sphere she uses to transport in is more of an Egg then a Coffin. It's round as an egg would be , not monolith or coffin shaped. It's rebirth...not death.
great vid. quick crit: Symbolism,,, not Symbology .
"Leave behind her unhealthy scientific dogma..." Is there a different movie called Contact? Because that's not what happened in the movie I saw.
You did watch a different film then. Even the last 15 minutes of the film reiterate that her stiff materialistic views have changed because of her experience.
ok ingersoll lockwood, ive been noticing the language.
Notice they call her El just like in Stranger Things. Interesting that both this chair and the show Stranger Things are storied to be connected to Montauk.
Montauk?
Project Montauk?
Many importan Movies have masseges than tell us in than part in time we are and what's go in am in earth, and something else excelent explain it this codes in contact movie
Long before movies, writers like Lewis Carrol ( ALICE IN WONDER,AND HUNTING THE SNARK ) used complex mathematicallg-based logic to embed second, third and even fourth level "meanings" into their Works. Fatuous interpretation often coloured by religious bias only obscures what the author is trying to say !
В этот момент она говорит, что она готова и что по отчёта, я готова, я готова постоянно повторяла, готова со мной всё хорошо, вот и вот она попадает то что-то с ней происходит. Тишина, потом опять какие-то тонне она летит, что это такое, потом отрывается от земли куда-то падает, и она как будто невесомость появляется она по этому месту, вот и я такую красоту. Что планеты она видит, она видит изображение планет? Всё так спокойно интересно давайте посмотрим а дальше
just read the book people. it is obvious this guy didn't.
Show me you haven't read any Carl Sagan without telling me you haven't read any Carl Sagan.
She's so beautiful
Это очень интересное кино, Вега, да это вот именно то место, куда она хотела попасть в вегу, и она мечтала увидеть отца своего, она мечтала о том, чтобы он появился, она видела там такую красоту не. Словами, что там происходило не описать словами, как это было тяжело писать всё это ей, вот она настолько интересно было, настолько всё это было интригующе хороший фильм, хороший фильм интересный, столько всего происходило и как она. Приглашена была на это всё, а потом рассказывала, никто ей не верил, что она где-то всё это пока потом детям рассказывала, как это всё происходило вот такое кино интересное. Интригующее и очень интересно смотреть его, оно спокойное и интересное, во всём интересное, это кино романтичное, и такое во всём интересное, а вот. Оказывается, это брат её был, как я поняла от неё, что брат был нелюб, нет ни в коем случае её был, и у него была собака, которая его водила везде, вот так поняла, что да. А тут я как-то немножко не поняла, но всё равно я как-то смогла это кино, контакт настолько интересное, настолько интересно его только смотреть, не пересмотреть это каждый кадр каждой версии, как её взяли это всё, это всё она. Пытался воспроизвести, как это всё она пыталась показать, там было всё красиво, там было столько планет, как будто это всё и там была река, там пляж, она видела черртание человека бежит к ней, и она разглядела, что это её отец, он говорил, что у нас тут много. Мы ещё здесь знаем, это совсем другая страна, это другое место, это даже больше, чем мы сами пытался ей рассказать, вот такое кино поглядеть, и вы поймёте, как это тяжело изначально, это всё понять просто была, как она ловила. А в компьютере ловила эти все волны, как она это всё рассказывала, какие-то всё интересно, всё это было такое кино, настолько оно интересное. И приятная во всём.
Great analysis.
И она всем говорила, что я готова, я готов испытать это всё, всё, может быть, не будет испытывать на себе это всё и это момент, как она идёт к этой капсуле, как она волнуется, переживает, всё ли получится. Это всё что она увидит это вообще тяжёлое но оно интересное интересное все что там происходит кад за кадром потихоньку всё расскажу
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Она говорит, я готова, я готова, и всё так страшно боялась прям какие-то тоннели бесконечные тон, она не могла понять, где она, что с ней, как она чувствует себя, что происходит дальше ей очень тяжело понять, что происходит мне её тоже жалко. Что с ней было правда это кино даже мелодраму драму мелодраму даже на 3 можно сказать 3 версии до этого кино подходит хорошо
Trying out new VR set for VR chat ...so u can meet the knuckles.
I commented awhile back on this video and see it's disappeared. Well I can't find it anyway.
This scene is pretty much a cinematic representation of the Baptism experience. Its also described quite well in the Bardo thodol especially the english interpretation, "The Psychedelic Experience ~ A manual based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead".
It was pretty wild my Baptism, not so much because what I experienced which was crazy but because I had no idea what i had experienced. It was like being slap without seeing the hand. The following day I watched this movie and seen how much it paralleled what I experienced. There's so much in this experience that is explained through the Gospel of Thomas. For instance the part where she unstraps from the chair,
"Mary said to Jesus, "Whom are Your disciples like?"
He said, "They are like children who have settled in a field
which is not theirs. When the owners of the field come, they will
say, 'Let us have back our field.' They (will) undress in their
presence in order to let them have back their field and give it
back to them. Therefore I say to you, if the owner of a house
knows that the thief is coming, he will begin his vigil before he
comes and will not let him into his house of his domain to carry
away his goods. You, then, be on your guard against the world.
Arm yourselves with great strength lest the robbers find a way to
come to you, for the difficulty which you expect will (surely)
materialize. Let there be among you a man of understanding. When
the grain ripened, he came quickly with his sickle in his hand
and reaped it. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear."
This is talking about ego and how in that moment when you face your maker you must give back what is his. Just let go and everything will be ok. Don't fear the death because all is one.
Ingersoll Lockwood
talk about the fifth element :)
all media was designed from day one
FuturistDataVerification
Is that blind guy Jackson Browne?
lockwood send me here wow
Какие-то якобы что-то какой-то пожар, то какие-то разряды ей страшно, не страх такой в глаза яркобит в глазах всё, может быть, ей только это всё, никто не мог она якобы упала, и всё и больше ничего не. Ходила, как она с этой капсулой упала вместе, и всё вот как это всё было. Вот мне тоже было не страшно, я смотрела тоже, мне было страшно с ник тяжёлые бед, как она боялась, кричала бедненько, как я боялась за не как бы не с ней. Сердечный приступ не произошёл вот как всё страшно было правда
I believe that Carl Sagan was an atheist most of his adult life. But the clues to a "deeper meaning" in this movie and the book hint at an enlightenment later in his life. The book and movie seemed to parallel Carl's life and his desire to attach meaning to the universe in his last years. There must be other life because "it would be a waste of space" for their not to be. Carl is deeply missed.
Yes, he was keeping up with current works like "The Tao of Physics", so he had a spiritual awakening later in life.
I think the message of the book and the movie is consistent with Carl’s atheism. Ellie doesn’t become religious at the end of the movie, any more than Palmer loses his faith - they both realize that the universe is full of wonder and awe and a humility-inspiring transcendence that neither of them can fully explain, and they realize that, in this, they understand each other and can share this experience with each other. Carl was always nuanced in his atheism, and I think this book/movie exemplify his spirit and attitude toward the natural world and toward our attempts to make sense of it. For Sagan, the universe was an awe-inspiring place, and we ought to be humble as we seek to understand it. If you have a chance to watch the 1980 series Cosmos, I highly recommend it. You’ll see these same themes, the same sentiments, in that series, from years earlier. His book The Demon Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Dark also lays out his case for having the kind of humility that Ellie discovers by the end of the movie.
He was an agnostic! He could neither prove or disprove the existence of a Supreme Being.