Almost Famous: The Silent Pulse of the Universe (2021)
In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell made an astounding discovery. But as a young woman in science, her role was overlooked.
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー
上映時間 : 16分
演出 : Ben Proudfoot
シノプシス
Growing up in a Quaker household, Jocelyn Bell Burnell was raised to believe that she had as much right to an education as anyone else. But as a girl in the 1940s in Northern Ireland, her enthusiasm for the sciences was met with hostility from teachers and male students. Undeterred, she went on to study radio astronomy at Glasgow University, where she was the only woman in many of her classes. In 1967, Burnell made a discovery that altered our perception of the universe. As a Ph.D. student at Cambridge University assisting the astronomer Anthony Hewish, she discovered pulsars — compact, spinning celestial objects that give off beams of radiation, like cosmic lighthouses. (A visualization of some early pulsar data is immortalized as the album art for Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures.”)
ホワイトハウスの女性スキャンダルを追っていたテレビ局のジェニーは、「エリー」という名に行き当たる。だがそれは女性の名ではなく、「Extinction Level Event（種の絶滅を引き起こす事象）」の略だった。大統領は、1年後に未知の彗星が地球に衝突する可能性があることを公表。これを阻止すべく彗星を核爆発させて軌道修正するプロジェクトが実行されたが、結果は失敗。衝突が刻一刻と迫る中、ついに大統領は地下に選ばれた100万人だけを移住させる計画を発表するのだった。
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宇宙観測所に務める科学者ゼインは、ある夜、正体不明の電波をキャッチする。地球外生命の証拠に間違いないとデータをNASAに提出するが、ボスであるゴーディはそれを黙殺し、ゼインも突然解雇されてしまう。納得のいかないゼインは自宅に観測所を作り、隣に住む黒人の少年キキと共に観測を続け、その電波がメキシコから発している事を突き止めた。到着した現地で謎の男に命を狙われながらも、ゼインは山奥に存在するオムニテック社の巨大プラントに行き当たる。
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アメリカ中西部の星のよく見える町に住む天文学者のサム。あるときニューヨークに滞在していた幼馴染かつ恋人のリンダが突然、地元にもう帰ってこない旨の手紙を送ってきた。どういうことなのか知るためリンダの所在を調べ直行したところ、なんとリンダは別の男と同棲していた。また自分に振り向いてくれることを信じ、リンダが現在同棲している家の向いのアパートを借りて監視することにした。そしてサムはカメラマンとコラージュ・アーティストをしている女性、マギーと出会う。マギーはなんとリンダと同棲しているアントンの元恋人だという。マギーはフラれた仕返しに恋人を奪い仕事を乗っ取ってやろうと画策していた。リンダとアントンの仲を引き裂くという利害の一致がした2人は、共同で監視するため共同生活を送ることになった。アントンの経営するレストラン内で嫌がらせをするなどしていたがあるとき、マギーはアントンが自分にも見せたことの無い笑顔を見る。それらに傷つきながら奇抜な計画を実行していたがあるときからサムはマギーに惹かれていきかくゆうマギーもサムに惹かれていった。そしてリンダとアントンを別れさせる計画をしているうちに自分らの想いが事実だと気付き、2人は過去にとらわれることをやめた。
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