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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.
Sep 9, 2019 · In the 1997 film Contact, astronomer Ellie Arroway detects a signal seemingly from the star Vega. It communicates prime numbers and contains an enhanced version of the first human TV signal powerful enough to escape into space: Hitler’s opening speech at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. As clear evidence of extraterrestrial life, news of the signal spreads and turns Ellie's world upside ...
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.
Nov 10, 2017 · The sympathetic Palmer Joss (played by Matthew McConaughey in the film) is a kind of young Billy Graham figure. He’s patriotic, nonpartisan, and seeks a “middle course” on issues of science ...
May 3, 2024 · Arroway asks the committee to accept the truth of her testimony on faith, as inspired by Palmer Joss, who sits in the audience. In a private conversation, Kitz and a White House official talk about unreleased confidential information that Arroway's recording device recorded static for 18 hours—proving she may have gone somewhere.
Nov 12, 2014 · That McConaughey (as Palmer Joss) embodies Contact’s have-it-two-ways attitude is thus a further, fitting conduit between Zemeckis and Nolan’s films, which also both utilize cutting-edge ...
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.
