"Contact" by Robert Zemeckis (1997)
В феврале, наконец-то, 10 лет спустя после выхода на экран, российское телевидение показало этот один из любимейших мною фильмов. Не многие американские фильмы я могу смотреть повторно. Этот могу смотреть бесконечно много.
И дело не в фантастической компьютерной графике, не в замечательной игре Jodie Foster, дело в самой идее фильма, вот в этом, например, прекрасном диалоге, первоначально отсутствующем в сценарии:
ELLIE Some celestial event. No - No words. No words to describe it. They should’ve sent a poet. So beautiful, So beautiful... I had no idea.
Her words are echoed as she passes out. She wakes up on a celestial beach that looks a little like the picture of Pensacola she drew when she was young. She reaches out and her hands brushes against something invisible that makes a sound. She touches somewhere else, a different sound. She continues to do this, making beautiful music, until she sees something in the distance... her father.
TED ARROWAY Hiya Sparks.
ELLIE Dad? She gives him a hug.
TED ARROWAY I missed you.
ELLIE I missed you (crying).
TED ARROWAY Oh, I’m sorry I couldn’t be there for you sweetheart.
ELLIE You’re not real. None of this is real.
TED ARROWAY That’s my scientist.
ELLIE When I was unconscious, you downloaded my thoughts, my memories, even Pensacola.
TED ARROWAY We thought this might make things easier for you.
ELLIE Why did you contact us?
TED ARROWAY You contacted us. We were just listening.
ELLIE Then there are others?
TED ARROWAY Many others.
ELLIE They all travel here through that transit system that you built?
TED ARROWAY We didn’t build it, we don’t know who did. They were gone long before we ever got here. Maybe some day they’ll come back.
ELLIE All the other civilizations that you find, they come here?
TED ARROWAY Not all.
ELLIE Is this some test?
TED ARROWAY No, no tests... (holding Ellie’s hand) you have your mother’s hands... You’re an interesting species, an interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares. You fell so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you’re not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we found that makes the emptiness bearable, each other.
ELLIE What happens now?
TED ARROWAY Now, you go home.
ELLIE Home? But I have so many questions, do we get to come back?
TED ARROWAY This was just a first step. In time you’ll take another.
ELLIE But other people need to see what I’ve seen, they need to see...
TED ARROWAY This is the way it’s been done for billions of years. Small moves, Ellie. Small moves.
She takes one last look at the sky and the stars, and then... the IPV drops into the net at the bottom of the machine.
Фильм талантливо переведен на русский язык. Он по-прежнему захватывает воображение. Он вполне оптимистично утверждает:
"Да! Мы не одиноки во Вселенной!"
Да. Мы не одиноки.