This is a very hard film to review, I approached it blind ( it had slipped under my radar which is ironic) and the less you know, the better it works, so will stick to a few main ingredients but try not to give away to much of the end product.
- it is a mature imagining of our 1st contact with “others”, no huge flying ships blowing up the White House or tripods with death rays, its feet are firmly in current science for most of it, the fiction element is used with restrain.
- Jodie foster puts in a out of this world performance, it is
rare to have a female lead which concentrates on what is in her head
not what is below it, there is no reason the lead had to be female
so it was a brave choice and even braver not to go down the normal
route of the lens lingering on boobs and bums......the only real
passion you see from her is the passion for science.
- Now this is the bit that could ALIENate some viewers, the
core of the film deals with the conflict of science versus faith,
both sides are dealt an even hand, both sides get to place down
their cards and as the deck gets smaller you wonder who gets to
place the trump card
It is not for everyone but if you enjoy stuff like Doctor Who then it is defiantly worth a go, for me it ticked all the boxes I want from science fiction and left me wishing Carl Sagan was still with us and writing.................maybe the odd Doctor Who episode
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/?ref_=nv_sr_1
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