Arroway’s personal struggle with God turned out in the end to be a matter of semantics, as the conclusion of the book (which the author evidently never read) – comes to all but conclude the universe was designed by another being or beings – all but God in another name!

This was partly one of many reminders throughout the book of the scale of the universe and our small part in it – and how everyone has very different ways of attempting to make sense of it all, all of them probably far shy of the great magnitude of the truth.

I long for the day when a main character in a movie or book can be non religious – and the film still not slated “anti religion” with a kneejerk slap of the hand.

OP – buy the book – and read it – or don’t make reference to it in an attempt to give your one dimensional, emotive slating more weight.

Yet Arrival is ranked lower than Contact in your list!?

Okay.

Here we go.

The Truman Show is science fiction because it centers on the sociological and psychological effects of a man taking part in a reality show inside humongous television studio the size of a city where the producers of the show can see him at all times and control the weather.

Edward Scissorhands is science fiction because it involves a scientist dying before he can finish his android.

The Sixth Sense and Princess Mononoke are not science fiction. The former is horror, and the other is fantasy. I haven’t seen Pi or Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, so I don’t know about those. Still, I have my doubts about Pi, but Batman does tend to have science fiction elements.

And finally.

The point of Contact is not simply to “ignorantly rant against religion,” but to delve into the concept of faith and show why it’s not a good idea to rely on it as a principle, especially in the field of science where facts and evidence are of utmost necessity to find out whether a claim is true or not. However, religion was thrown in the mix because, in general, religion revolves around the concept of faith. That, however, does not mean you can’t believe whatever you want to. It’s just something for people to consider, to make people think and possibly search within themselves.