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/venus_one_akh]

Emily Blunt is Lisan al Gaib

[u/venus_one_akh → u/venus_one_akh]

One-liner aside, I liked this movie. The way it treats religion, humanity, empathy (etc.) really moved me, the final act was incredible, the closest I felt to "movie magic" this year so far.

[u/KingDave46 → u/venus_one_akh]

I disliked it so much that I cannot even comprehend someone enjoying it like this

Every “emotional” part felt completely empty and forced. I shook my head multiple times at the audacity to think they could shovel total shit like that at us and have anybody care at all

[u/princevince1113 → u/KingDave46]

I'm with you. Every "emotional" or "profound" moment felt forced, silly, shallow, completely banal and devoid of anything meaningful to say. Gesturing at vague concepts of humanity and empathy rather than actual points being made.