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> 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 tha
by branko_d 6y ago
> 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.
- LeoPanthera 6y agoThis tiny scene ruins the movie, IMHO. I have a personal edit which simply cuts out the scene where they discover that the camera ran for hours, and it vastly improves it.
- SeanBoocock 6y agoOh wow, I have always considered this scene a blight on an otherwise perfect movie. I have often speculated over the years that it wasn't in the original script and was a pickup after test screenings or inserted because a producer was scared audiences couldn't handle the ambiguity. 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.
- mjevans 6y agoYes, of "static". Which just reuses the signal from space plot-hook from the start of the film. Presumably that static, either in raw data or a display encoded form, could also contain a similar bit of vital data that will eventually be useful.