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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 ...
- Contact
Contact is a science fiction film about an encounter with...
- Contact
Jun 29, 2022 · An oral history of Contact, Robert Zemeckis’s sci-fi movie that defied Hollywood norms and made it big anyway, with Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, and more.
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Sep 6, 2022 · The other is Matthew McConaughey's unconventional "man of the cloth, without the cloth," Palmer Joss, who got his "master's in divinity" before dropping out of the seminary to do humanitarian work.
A description of an emotionally intense experience by Palmer Joss, which he describes as seeing God, is met by Arroway's suggestion that "some part of [him] needed to have it"—that it was a significant personal experience but indicative of nothing greater. Joss compares his certainty that God exists to Arroway's certainty that she loved her deceased father, despite her being unable to prove it.
Oct 28, 2020 · Matthew McConaughey has dazzled viewers in countless roles over the course of his career, but one of his most memorable is his portrayal of Christian philosopher Palmer Joss in the 1997 film Contact.
Nov 10, 2017 · The official story becomes that the Message was real, but that the Machine did not work. The truth of the matter comes down to a faith decision initiated by an oral tradition spreading the good news.
Contact is a 1985 hard science fiction novel by American scientist Carl Sagan. It deals with the theme of contact between humanity and a more technologically advanced extraterrestrial life form. It ranked No. 7 on Publishers Weekly ' s 1985 bestseller list. The only full work of fiction published by Sagan, the novel originated as a screenplay ...
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