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This is a story about the tension that exists between science, faith, and politics. I loved how both the book and the movie handled all those ideas… until the end when it tips the scales a little too far for my liking by giving the reader/audience more information that robs the story of the ambiguity that I think makes Ellie’s decision at the end so powerful. So, I’ve snipped out the scene between James Woods and Angela Bassett that gives the audience specific information that Ellie does not, thereby forcing the audience to make up their own minds about what she did, or didn’t, experience.
Please send me a PM if you’d like a link (it’s the same link if I’ve given you one before). As always, an ESL reader adaptation will be included and there are also English subtitles as this is primarily created for my students.