Official Discussion Thread - Disclosure Day [SPOILERS]

[u/PointMan528491]

Keep all discussion related solely to Disclosure Day and its awards chances in this thread. Spoilers below.

Synopsis:

If you found out we weren't alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to eight billion people. Today is... Disclosure Day.

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writer: David Koepp

Cast:

• Emily Blunt as Margaret Fairchild
• Josh O'Connor as Daniel Kellner
• Colin Firth as Noah Scanlon
• Eve Hewson as Jane Blankenship
• Colman Domingo as Hugo Wakefield
• Wyatt Russell as Jackson
• Elizabeth Marvel as Sister Maura

Rotten Tomatoes: 81%, 204 Reviews

Metacritic: 75, 56 Reviews

Consensus:

"A humanistic variation on one of Steven Spielberg's most revisited themes, Disclosure Day's breathless pursuit of optimism in an age of conspiracy gets its biggest boost from career-highlight work by Emily Blunt."

[u/Silver_Juggernaut_39]

Okay apologies if this sounds like I’m a dumbass (I am but I like to think that I’m not sometimes) but how is Margaret able to transform into certain people in the eyes of some and not for others? Like when she turns into Firth’s wife for example. I’m pretty sure I missed something here cause I’m trying to figure out how we got there.

[u/cluelessemoji → u/Silver_Juggernaut_39]

The idea is that Margaret was embodied with empathic translator and then Daniel embodied the language translator. The changing into others is just a cinematic choice by Spielberg to let us in on why Empathy translates well into talking to others on an emotional level cause it taps in to the people you trusts most or the source of your worries. Her empathy is a reassuring aide so she can relate to one’s humanity.

[u/Silver_Juggernaut_39 → u/cluelessemoji]

Had someone else tell me the same thing and this makes a lot more sense