I don’t see how Steven Spielberg‘s Disclosure Day (Universal, 6.12) is going to blow that many minds.
Daniel Kellner (the jug-eared Josh O’Connor) wants the entire world to know that non-humans have been hanging out and more or less hiding (forcibly hidden?) on earth for decades, and decides to go full whistleblower. He finds a spiritual ally in weather reporter Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt), who’s been inexplicably tuning into alien hum signals and aural sub-currents.
Naturally the shadowy, glum-faced Noah Scanlon (Colin Firth), the CEO of Wardex Corporation who’s been covering up the alien sub-habitation all along, wants this earth-shaking news suppressed…business as usual. Colman Domingo‘s Hugo Wakefield, a Wardex defector, is a big advocate for disclosure blah blah.
It goes without saying that Daniel and Margaret, like Richard Dreyfuss and Melinda Dillon in the nearly half-century-old Close Encounters, don’t become romantically involved. Mr. Jug Ears is putting it to Jane Blankenship (Eve Hewson), a former nun. And Margaret’s “partner” is a dude named Jackson (Wyatt Russell).
Are the aliens cousins of the original Kanamits, who 65 years ago were looking to “serve man”? That would be the most enjoyable scenario, of course, but you know this won’t happen.
Give me one good reason why visiting aliens would be kept under wraps or imprisoned or disguised or whatever the deal is. What’s the point, Colin and other powers-that-be? To prevent everyday humans from experiencing “cultural shock and disorientation”? What are aliens going to convey at the end of the long dreary day? The scientific means to produce greater amounts of food? That they’re spiritual emissaries from some holy faraway place who are looking to turn us all on in a Timothy Leary way? Mass illumination?
Okay, so there are other civilizations out there just like ours…big deal.
Wait…Daniel and Margaret finally realize they’re aliens themselves, their memories having been somehow suppressed or wiped clean by Wardex when they were kids. Right? Will it also be revealed that Dario Amodei is an alien? (I’m just winging it here.)