I wanted to start a thread for this! I'm about to watch it for the 2nd time. Feel free to put anything you want about the movie here! How did it make you feel? I felt.... a lot of joy! Hope. And very encouraged. Kinda low key hated the main character tho.
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Bit late here but I watched this before I made an account and caught 333 on the trailer thing where they have all their computer and recording gear the first time it shows up. Lower left on the screen.
They be like,"yeah that's us 3-3-3 👽✌️"
I just watched this for the first time tonight and it was amazing. I felt for the main character and his family and the struggle of it all. It made me so glad that he ended up exactly where he needed to be. And though they didn't address it, I'm just going to think that the wife and kids did too. I thought the environmental storytelling style was really cool and I kept getting sucked in to the little things, like the 44 on the license plate of the car crashing through the fences. I see that number on license plates all the time and use it as a little sign that I'm going in the right direction, so that had me giggling.
Just want to note this collective synchronocity, as I also was drawn to re-watch CEot3K recently introducing my partner to it within this past couple week time frame.
Moved this thread to the appropriate sub-forum. 💙
I watched it today and cried a lot. Over the last few years I’ve gone through mind-bending experiences that, though they didn’t involve open or direct physical contact, did involve a complete overhaul of my worldview. I felt exactly like the main character (who I started out not liking but came to love throughout the movie) when he was in the bathtub crying and saying “I don’t know what’s happening to me”. I was similarly alarmed and scared at the sudden influx of telepathic messages, but whenever I listened to them I experienced miracles, many miracles, some hilarious and some downright mind blowing. I was called bi-polar, a narcissist, selfish, crazy, erratic, etc. I was yelled at exactly like he was by a person who was unable to deal with the things I was saying and doing in response to my “contact”, and it felt so painful. Ironically this person considers themselves a “strong Christian” and yet was constantly telling me to “stop overspiritualizing everything”, as if the Bible doesn’t say things like “In Him we love and move and have our being” (ie - all is Consciousness, all is “spiritual”). At then end when they picked him to come in the ship I cried like a baby. I have wailed on the floor more times than I want to admit, begging to be taken home. That scene hit me
hard.
Joy, hope, love, peace, understanding, acceptance and connection. It made me feel like "home."
The ending makes the whole journey worth it IMO. Love the end and the Damien figure with the little greys
If you liked Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind you will fucking love Contact 1997. It's incredibly intelligent and spiritual, very moving.
Just watched it for the first time last night, actually. It's definitely one of my favorites now.. I found myself smiling so much when all the little greys came from out of their ship to do their little inspections on the humans haha.
Overall, the movie had such a happy, feel-good tone to it (apart from some of the characters absolutely losing their minds of course lol) that I feel is missing from a lot of the other ET like movies/media!
Just watched it recently for the first time and I was left with one burning question: How deeply involved has Jacques Vallee been with the US program?
I just watched it for the first time a few days ago, and then again yesterday with a friend. The whole thing with Roy 'losing it' and tossing the plants through the window in order to complete Devil's Tower reminds me of all the pictures I was drawing at the beginning of my awakening that made sense to only me. Spirals, random entities, a lion-headed serpent... when I tried to explain it to my friends, it was as if I was tongue tied, and worse, I sounded like a lunatic. Knowing what I was experiencing, but being made to feel like I was crazy hurt so much, and seeing that happen in the movie was just like "ah, yeah, this crap again". But the ending, the ending is so worth it and I cried so very hard in both joy and longing. It's hard to see someone living your dream. Haha.
I had seen Close Encounters as a kid, but didn't remember it at all. I just watched it for the first time as an adult two weeks ago. It's now one of my favorite movies! The scene where he's tossing all of the garbage through the kitchen window... I was dying laughing. All in all it felt so validating to me and was a really fun watch. I want to watch it again soon!