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They should have droppet the whole trial/hearing part

posted 9 years ago by StanleyKubrick2001
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To really think an exentric engineer had the capibility to fake "the whole thing" and fooling all scientist across the globe. Then having Dr Arroway lie and fake her experience... It's just silly and not realistic. A hearing would not have been held before every peice of evidence from the mission had been scrutinized, thus discovering the 18 hours of static and a load of other evidence. And also, it is mentioned in the movie that scientists believe the device actually could be a portal/wormhole. If thats the case, then what happened to Dr Arroway was completely expected and a very reasonable.

Science was very underrepresented in the movie, instead we had alot of God Vs Atheism going on. This movie would have been a 10/10 without all the religious nonsense and useless moral context.

[–] ajhdettmer 9 years ago

Imho your right about that. The religious bs and the hearing
were utter crap. However it was not that bad that it drowned the
whole film. Well,it was the time when religion was back on the
plate in the US,so....

[–] StanleyKubrick2001 9 years ago

Luckily it didn't. We need a directors cut without that whole scene.

[–] Wombstar 8 years ago

We need a directors cut without that whole scene.

You assume the director would want to cut and didn't want it in the first place.

[–] jaystarstar 9 years ago

The congressional hearing was inflated into a much bigger deal in the movie than it was in the book.

Ellie would never have stood there and allowed the whole thing to develop into HER being personally put on trial.

When the senator says, "Over a half trillion dollars were spent, dozens of lives were lost," Ellie would say, "Not to be blunt, but tough cookies. There was never any guarantee the Machine was going to work AT ALL."

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4) You ever seen Superman $#$# his pants? Case closed.

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[–] Ithilfaen 9 years ago

You only think it's useless and BS because you didn't get the bigger picture.

Science was very underrepresented in the movie, instead we had alot of God Vs Atheism going on.

Because ultimately the movie, just like the book, is about faith. Not in a father figure with a booming voice that lives in the sky, but in something larger than ourselves.

Arroway believed that science made her immune to faith but she was wrong. She just didn't have faith in a religious figure or some other delusion.

For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco

[–] nass_k 9 years ago

It should never have gone to a "trial". It was a total farce with Kitz not being bothered to read the report on the findings (such as the 18 hours of static that was recorded). Constantine knew about it because she read the report. Who else did? Was it just some vendetta Kitz had against Hadden? Seems cowardly as the dead cannot answer back.

Also if the outcome was more funding for Eleanor then are they in effect saying "we believe you after all"?

[–] sneakyrose 8 years ago

Totally agree. The rest of the movie on that trial is frustrating and annoying.

[–] HalBanksy 8 years ago

I don't understand why anyone was doubting her claims.
They had no idea what the machine was actually going to do - and didn't some think it was going to open a portal to another dimension? Why did they find the idea of an alternate timeline so unbelievable?

[–] bananabry 7 years ago

droppet

Not a real word, but it probably should be. ☺