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I saw the film first, then I got the Audiobook read, quite intensely, by Jodie Foster. The film is a little more compact and accessible since Ellie travels alone and the story focuses more on her strong independence and her relationship with Palmer. I'm a believer in the science but I don't discount what I cannot see out of hand (a universe without a purpose would be a singularly unromantic place to be) and Palmer has some great lines and points to make.
Carl didn't live to see the release of his film but it's a great tribute to an important populariser of science and an inquiring man.
And you're wrong Ellie; they did send a poet, fluent in the language of science yet still with romance in her soul. It was you.
8/10
