Ok.. this happens everytime Contact (movie starring Jodie Foster, based on Carl Sagan's book) shows up on TV, and I'm reminded of two things I don't get while watching it. It's driving me nuts.. I was *this* close to buying a cheap 2nd hand copy of the novel at a book sale, but as soon as I turned my head, it was gone.. It would've helped explain it though!
Ok, when Jodie's character meets the alien on the beach (who is in the form of her father), the alien bends down, picks up a hand full of sand and lets it slowly fall out of his hand until most of it is gone. You see some sand left on his hand, and a curved line of about 6 or 7 sand particles shimmering.. and at the end of the movie, Jodie does the same, and you see the same pattern as well.. what was Carl Sagan or the script writers trying to say there, exactly?
Also, when Jodie goes through the worm hole for the first time, you see a blur of her face extend out and say different things.. what's the scientific explanation for that (in layman's terms) too ? [:)] I'm guessing it might be that she was saying something different in a parallel universe, but I'm not sure.. *shrugs*
Well the first one is really open to interpretation.
I remember the bit vaguely but haven't seen the movie in ages.
If i see it some time soon and i remember this post i will be able to help you.
For the second one i think its got to do with time distortion. Those are things she is saying in the past and future. Again i don't remember exactlly cause last time it was on TV i watched something else [:p]
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