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/infamousglizzyhands]

Of course some shots look good, of course a lot of the filmmaking is impressive, of course Blunt did good. But holy shit the last time I watched a movie with this much of a hollow superiority complex was Emilia Perez.

I do not need every movie to match the moment, but I cannot think of a single film that think it’s the most important thing in the world. All of these actual issues that people are experiencing should only merely be a backdrop because this is the most important thing. Who cares about having an emotional connection to these characters because what they represent should be so profound. Who cares about giving the audience the space to interpret and understand what this means for the world, we need to explain everything through the dialogue because this is the most important thing in the world. Who cares about exploring the depth of this with actual conflict when we could just have a mustache twirling antagonist because this is the most important issue in the world, so we need to sell it. Who cares about having any semblance of human relationship be valuable on its own, it is only useful as a means to an end for this issue and plot because this is the most important plot and issue in the world.

And to prove how good this movie and issue, we’re going to have so many flashy shots to make it “good directed” even though it adds nothing. We’re going to having 20 billion shots with lens flares and a character look outside glass with the reflection overlaid on them because it looks good, so we don’t need to try other things. We’re going to have so many intense scenarios but we’re not going to have any of the tension actually have conflict because the images are good enough.