"Contact" How to express unknown emotions? Jodie Foster's masterpiece has evolved through the integration of special effects.

Special effects meticulously incorporated into every detail of the video

The success of ``Contact'' is the result of a rich story that makes you feel the depths of space and life, Zemeckis's visual magic that becomes more profound the more you watch it, and the performances of the excellent cast. The main story is 150 minutes long, but it is rare to find a work that can withstand repeated viewings. In particular, it is worth noting that Zemeckis' style of creativity, ``incorporating special effects even in trivial scenes that the audience would not notice,'' is on full display.

Indeed, when I look at it again in detail, I realize just how elaborate the film was. For example, even when the heroine was still young, special effects were used to change her eye color to blue in order to connect her to Jodie Foster. What's more, the father's movements, played by David Morse, have been subtly manipulated from the beginning to seem awkward.

Other features include elaborate fine-tuning such as sky color and image brightness, CG-drawn spectacular outer space, winding wormholes, crowds, and spectacular scenes of departure into space. Even if you look at the entire product, it seems that there is almost no scene that does not have special processing added to it.

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That is not all. Zemeckis is also particular about how he shoots each scene. For example, when a camera moves from outdoors to indoors, or vice versa, when it gradually recedes, the camera may pass through a window or wall without you noticing. The technique used by Hitchcock and others was achieved by using special effects without any sense of discomfort.

At other times, he uses incredibly complex and outrageous photography techniques. What I would like to focus on is the scene in which Ellie, as a child, is looking up at the sky through a telescope when she notices something strange about her father downstairs. She immediately runs out to get the medicine from the sink shelf. At this time, the camera captures her running in slow motion from the front, but before she knows it, the footage switches from what was taken by the camera to ``her reflection in the mirror.''

Even if you read this article, you probably won't understand anything at all. In fact, even on set, the staff had a hard time figuring out what exactly Zemeckis had in mind and sharing his vision. However, if you actually watch the video, you can understand it instantly. If you are in an environment where you can easily watch this work on Netflix etc., please take this opportunity to set the playback time to ``around 21 minutes''. I think people will be surprised to find out that they were able to take such detailed photographs.

Capture complex things in their entirety.