https://vo.rs/tags/robert-zemeckis/Latest from the Robert Zemeckis desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Thu, 30 Jan 2025 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/contact-the-sci-fi-film-about-faith-and-evidence/<p>Most first-contact films are about the aliens. <em>Contact</em> (1997) is about us — about what a species does with a signal, and about the argument that breaks out the moment the universe answers. Robert Zemeckis, working from Carl Sagan&rsquo;s novel, made a big studio science-fiction film whose real subject is epistemology: how we decide what to believe, what counts as proof, and whether the two great human engines for making sense of existence, science and religion, are asking the same question in different languages. It is a talkier, stranger, more argumentative blockbuster than its marketing ever admitted, and that is exactly why it lasts.</p>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 09:00:00 +0000