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Apr 29, 2024 · Perhaps, even if Palmer Joss truly did not know much about this discovery, it felt as if he was certainly helping guide her thoughts towards the possibilities of contact with the other side.
May 24, 2010 · Contact: Palmer Joss is one of my heroes. Contact is the story of a scientist who, through an unexplainable experience, opens up to previously dismissed possibilities about the nature and mysteries of our existence. Ellie Arroway is your garden variety young scientist, pure and noble in her utter trust in science as the path to discovering truth.
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But while the film portrays Arroway as journeying into the heavens to meet the dead, it actually leaves out the novel’s most remarkable religious details. For one thing, the novel has two “fundamentalist” characters instead of one. The sympathetic Palmer Joss (played by Matthew McConaughey in the film) is a kind of young Billy Graham figure. He’s p...
Contactmakes that reconciliation happen by establishing careful parallels between religious faith and the scientific enterprise as seen in Arroway’s journey and testimony. For instance, preparing for the trip home, Arroway realizes her experience has become very “theological.” As the novel narrates: “Here were beings who live in the sky, beings eno...
This religious sympathy is dramatized even further in a coda about Arroway’s scientific explorations that never made it into the film. She had been mysteriously encouraged by her alien-father, during her journey into the heavens, to investigate the transcendental number pi. So in the last chapter titled “The Artist’s Signature,” as her oral and wri...
Palmer Joss is a part of a panel to select the first human who will go into outer space to meet with the newly discovered life forms. But if he wants to be objective, he needs to find a way to balance his relationship with Ellie and his devotion to the pursuit of truth. Personality… intelligent, kind, and skeptical of society’s reliance on ...
Ellie's relationship with Palmer Joss (more fleshed out in the novel, but still present in the film) is specifically about her initially dismissing his spiritual experiences, and criticising any viewpoint that accepts anything on faith. Their character arcs are about coming to understand each other. That was Sagan's point in writing the book.
Jun 23, 2022 · There's a pivotal scene where Ellie pleads for funding for her research from the men with the money at Hadden Industries. Just as things look hopeless, an executive takes a phone call from someone ...
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Oct 31, 2024 · No matter how strong the darkness, it is no match for the light. Darkness cannot overcome it. John’s reference to light and darkness draws on language from the book of Genesis (cf., Genesis 1:3–5, 14–18, 20–31; 2:7). This suggests that John 1:5 alludes to the first act of creation in making a point about God’s Son.
