The Need for Significance, Transcendence and the Truth: Carl Sagan's 'Contact'

Please join us for the first event in our film and discussion series.

Contact, based on the novel of the same name by Carl Sagan, is the story of a "free thinking" radio astronomer, who discovers an intelligent signal broadcast from deep space. She and her fellow scientists are able to decipher the Message and discover detailed instructions for building a mysterious Machine. Will the Machine spell the end of our world, or the end of our "superstitions?"

Not only is Contact a good window of insight into our culture, it is a film about worldview, the nature of faith, the need for significance and transcendence, the possibility of truth, the existence of God, the wonder of the physical universe, and the meaning of death.

'Contact' (1997) is directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Wood, and others. Rated PG (for some intense action, mild language and mild sensuality) and runs 150 minutes.

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