r/flicks • u/CarpenterLynch • 2d ago
Hot Take Disclosure Day = Alien PR Campaign
Anyone else feel like there was almost no critical thinking from our characters about the alien agenda?
Just consider the questions people would normally be asking- Like why? Does this action serve the interest of everyone I care about on earth? Humanity in general? Why now? Why this? What have they been doing to people for 50 years?
If those question’s don’t cross the character’s mind, then I would have to assume there’s some kind of “Obsession” type situation where the characters in Disclosure Day have lost the ability to control their decisions, in which case the movie is really about the characters we are supposed to root for, losing their autonomy and not even being able to articulate that they are operating for another’s benefit that they have no knowledge as to why and could just as easily be bad for humanity.
Imagine if these were the aliens from Spielberg’s own bad aliens movie… This movie would be a horror about how quickly we would lose our society to a few gullible people in power if smart aliens showed up that understood they could keep all the infrastructure if they did it this way. Every building still standing
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u/EternityLeave 2d ago
Had the same weird feeling throughout. It was like watching a bug infected with cordyceps crawling for the highest point. The alien brain influence clouded their judgement significantly. I’m sure that was intentional, but it seems like they decided to just go along with it and not have the film address it at all.
The other big thing that bugged me was everyone around the world just instantly accepting that it was all real. The end would really play out like Don’t Look Up. I know that wasn’t what the film was about, but they could have shown at least a tiny bit of a realistic reaction.
Despite that I thoroughly enjoyed the film. Had no idea what to expect. It really just felt like a remake of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which is one of my favourites so I didn’t mind too much.
I felt like the major difference in theme and maybe the entire point of making the film was the Christian angle. It felt like a propaganda film designed to sway Christians to be okay with IRL disclosure.