Contact

There's a point near the end of Robert Zemeckis' Contact where the scientist Ellie Arroway (played by Jodie Foster), having been propelled through various wormholes on the way to Vega, sees the star system from the porthole of her IPV. As she stares in a state of incredulous awe she stutters into her recording device, almost unable to speak:

No words... no words... Poetry.... 

they should have sent a poet. 

It's so beautiful, so beautiful... so beautiful.... 

I had no idea... I had no idea... no idea....


And there you have it. 


They should have sent a poet.