> In the movie Jodie Foster cries and says they have to take it on faith.
Except they don't have to... there are hours of static from her camera, something that should not be possible if she spent only a fraction of a second out of contact.
Except they don't have to... there are hours of static from her camera, something that should not be possible if she spent only a fraction of a second out of contact.
One way of reading the film is as an epistemological exploration of modern society and how one character evolves their belief systems in the face of both ordinary and extraordinary events. I love the movie far more than the book because it doesn't neatly resolve the "truth" of what Ellie experiences, and it leaves the audience, minus this scene, in the same place as the protagonist.