Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster): “Poetry! They should have sent a poet. So beautiful. So beautiful. I had no idea.” In the 1997 film Contact, based on Carl Sagan’s novel, radio astronomer Ellie Arroway straps into the alien machine and keeps repeating “I’m okay to go” as contact with mission control fades. She is then pulled through a series of wormholes, watching stars, multiple images from relativistic effects, and a dazzling galactic center before the capsule goes dark and weightless. When sh...