No I'm serious, I get the message in the movie and I thought it was pretty cool, but it's certainly not on the same level as 2001 or even THX. The movie is about faith. The book may be different, but I've only seen the movie. There wasn't a whole lot up to interpretation, you know what I mean? Even the ending was straight-forward. The main character knew what she saw, knew that it was fact, but also knew that there was no scientific evidence to back it up (or so she thought). It's analogous to religious belief. Many people think that it's a blind belief because our science does not confirm it (though neither can it prove it wrong), though I'm sure that for some people it really is a blind belief. I think that part in the end where they basically confirm that the whole thing did happen kind of hurt the movie. There was really no speculation after that. Good movie, and it had a nice message, but yeah...
The best part about Contact, 2001, THX and Solaris is that there's NO BLACKS, ASIANS OR JEWS.
*waits for explosion*
Contact was about faith in God, yes. But it also had really cool theories brought to the screen. Solaris is about letting go (but the movie sucked). THX is about loss of humanity and 2001 is about creationism, the black monolith being God/the universe that appears when an evolution is about to begin (ape kills ape, learns value of possession and ability to conquer leading to human evolution and qonquest - Human kills computer, learns value of artificial man-made humanity leading to comprehension of the brain and ultimately omnipotancy).
