Contact

I watched Contact this weekend.
Arguably one of the best movies ever made.
This is probably the 5th or 6th time watching it in the last 4 years.
Why?
Below are snippets of the dialogue that are just worth it!
Reading them is one thing. Watching them performed by amazing actors is yet another.

[When Ellie talks to Hadden inside his plane]
- The powers that be have been busy lately.
Falling over each other to position themselves for the game of the millenium...
Maybe I can help deal you back in.
- I didn't realise that I was out.
- Well, maybe not out, but certainly being handed your hat.


[ When Ellie is being pushed to answer the question of whether she believes in God ]
- I believe... I believe I have already answered that question.

[ When Ellie is at the hearing, being 'questioned' about the validity of her testimony with respecpt to the trip ]
- You come to us with no evidence, no record, no artifacts.
Only a story that, to put it mildly, strains credibility.
Over half a trillion dollars were spent.
Dozens of lives were lost.
Are you really gonna seat there and tell us, we should just take this all on faith?
- Please answer the question Doctor.
- Is it possible that it didn't happen? Yes.
As a scientists I must concede that, I must volunteer that.
- Wait a minute, let me get this straight.
You admit you have absolutely no physical evidence to backup your story.
- Yes.
- You admit that you very well may have halucinated the whole thing.
- Yes.
- You admit that if you were in our position you would respond with the same degree of incredjulity and skepticism .
- Yes.
- Then why don't you simply withdraw your testimony and concede that this journey to the center of the galaxy in fact never took place.
- Because I can't!
I had an experience. I can't proove it, I can't explain it.
But everything that i know as a human being, everything that I am, tells me that it was real.
I was given something wonderful, something that changed me for ever.
A vision of the universe that tells us undeniably how tiny and insignifficant and how rare and precious we all are. A vision that tells us that we belong to somehting that is greater than ourselves, that we are not, that none of us are alone.
I wish I could share that. I wish... that everyone, if even for one moment, could feel that awe and humility and that hope....
That continues to be my wish.