26th September 2005, 3:33 PM
Hmm.... Well, contact uses a lot of logic near the end. I mean, the makers of the movie seem to intend the audience to not go for the logic, but all the logic does point to you, the viewer, needing to realize that yes, that scientist was delusional.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)