Contact (1997) - Sooner Or Later.
★★★★★ |
When I was on my way to work this morning, I don’t know, this film
just popped up in my mind all of a sudden. It’s a film back in 1997, but after
all these years, it still moves and astounds me just thinking of it. I’m
talking about a sci-fi classic that will get people to ruminate about one’s
faith in science or divinity, and the position of Earth in the Universe.
I remember I first watched ‘Contact’ on a local TV channel. Its
running time’s 150 minutes, a relatively long film, but it’s not at all boring.
There’s a lot of talking indeed before the final contact happens. The things
they say are by no means rubbish. They’re pretty thought-provoking and help set
up the mood for the spellbinding ending—the way they manage to finally get Jodie
Foster’s Ellis to have contact with another being from another world so much
afar, is absolutely mind-blowing to me as a boy back then and even now as a
grownup. I never figured it’d end up like that. That what really happens inside
can be so different from what it seems from outside! I almost burst into tears
seeing Ellis waking up on that beautiful beach to have a philosophical
conversation with a seemingly gentle, sophisticated
being disguising as her father. It says, ‘you (mankind) are an interesting
species, an interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such
horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not.
See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness
bearable is each other.’
All the time, I wish it was me going through all that, and wouldn’t
have to come back to this world of sufferings after all. Just like the
unforgettable ‘K-PAX’, ‘Contact’ means a lot more than just a film to me. It
makes me wanna get out of my comfort zone for real, and somehow strengthens my
faith in something a whole lot more complete than anything I’ve ever come across
by far in my life. It’s already out there in fact. I may not be able to have it
right now, but I believe I will sooner or later!
P.S.: in case you may misunderstand, all you read here at ‘Almost
Buddhist’ is anything but so called movie reviews coz I’m no professional in
such things, and have no interest and talent to be one either. It’s all my feelings
and opinions on certain things as sometimes a Buddhist, and most of the time a
troubled man!
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