In Robert Zemeckis’s 1997 film Contact, Dr. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) discovers an alien signal, analyzes it, cracks its code, deciphers a blueprint for a gigantic space travel machine, convinces the federal government to build that machine at great cost, gets bumped from captaining its first flight because she doesn’t believe in God, avoids dying in the terrorist attack that prevents that first flight, gets to be captain of the second identical space travel machine built in secret by a weirdo gazillionaire... Читать дальше...