Ooops, I should say something about Contact since I said I would ... Let's see ... real quick, as a scientist, and talented astronomer, Jodie Foster is a very "must see to believe, empirical evidence doesn't lie, prove it buster" kind of person. Yet, since her youth she always just knew there were other life forms out there. When she'd look at the sky and the stars, it would fuel her dream and vision to one day find a sign of other life. A part of the plot is that a man of God falls in love with her; they're opposites in the sense that he believes in God and she doesn't. Yet, for some reason, he continues to pursue her and their paths very remarkably cross many times. (SPOILER - don't read this if you still haven't seen the movie and want to watch it) At the end, she ends up makin a trip to the star Vega, where she sees the wonders of the universe - wormholes, distant civilizations, and finally ... she meets the other life forms. The encounter is an interesting one. Upon her return to earth, many onlookers had no idea what she went thru and considered the entire project an utter failure. To them, less than a second had passed; for her, she was gone for over 18 hours. She was left with no proof of her encounters. The final scene has her in front of an inquiry panel, questioning her about her experiences. This is the most telling scene - she can provide no very solid in your face evidence or explanation from a earth perspective, and totally understood the skepticism she was met with. Yet, with every fiber in her body, she knew her encounter was real - and it is her wish that everyone else could know the truth she had found. All the time, she could never understand how a person could believe in God when there seems to be no solid proofs (from her perspective) of his being. Suddenly, she was thrust into the other end of the spectrum, having the eyes of her heart opened. There's really a lot of spiritual themes in this movie. Anyway, it ends at that ... and I enjoyed the movie, quite interesting. It spoke to me somewhat about how I relate to others. That's all.