Contact (Keepcase)

Contact (Keepcase) Review

Contact has long been in my list of top 10 movies. A big fan of Carl Sagan in my youth (his series Cosmos inspired many budding Astronomers I'm sure) seeing his novel contact realised as a motion picture was a joyful occasion for me and while there are a few differences from the book I was extremely pleased with the result.

The choice of Jodie Foster as Elly worked well as she brought her considerable acting talent to crafting a character driven by a thirst for knowledge and the need to know that we are not alone. Other powerful performances from Tom Skerrit and Matthew McConaughey round out the main characters in this movie nicely.

Stunning visuals, great soundtrack, and great philosophical questions to answer.

This will always be one of my favourite movies and I am glad that I can now enjoy it in magnificent full HD.

Contact (Keepcase) Overview

Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/08/2009

Contact (Keepcase) Specifications

The opening and closing moments of Robert (Forrest Gump) Zemeckis's Contact astonish viewers with the sort of breathtaking conceptual imagery one hardly ever sees in movies these days--each is an expression of the heroine's lifelong quest (both spiritual and scientific) to explore the meaning of human existence through contact with extraterrestrial life. The movie begins by soaring far out into space, then returns dizzyingly to earth until all the stars in the heavens condense into the sparkle in one little girl's eye. It ends with that same girl as an adult (Jodie Foster)--her search having taken her to places beyond her imagination--turning her gaze inward and seeing the universe in a handful of sand. Contact traces the journey between those two visual epiphanies. Based on Carl Sagan's novel, Contact is exceptionally thoughtful and provocative for a big-budget Hollywood science fiction picture, with elements that recall everything from 2001 to The Right Stuff. Foster's solid performance (and some really incredible alien hardware) keep viewers interested, even when the story skips and meanders, or when the halo around the golden locks of rising-star-of-a-different-kind Matthew McConaughey (as the pure-Hollywood-hokum love interest) reaches Milky Way-level wattage. Ambitious, ambiguous, pretentious, unpredictable--Contact is all of these things and more. Much of it remains open to speculation and interpretation, but whatever conclusions one eventually draws, Contact deserves recognition as a rare piece of big-budget studio filmmaking on a personal scale. --Jim Emerson

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