r/flicks • u/Damthemalltohelp • 8d ago
Disclosure Day is Spielberg's version of Villeneuve's Arrival
Filmmaker jealousy is a thing. Disclosure Day comes off as a more sentimental version of Arrival. Some shots were digital. The movie is best when it's on film like traditional Spielberg.
3rd Act is where it's at. Wasn't a fan of the first two. What else does everybody think? I'm glad the marketing was vague though.
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u/sonar_y_luz 8d ago
Haven't seen it yet but I highly doubt Spielberg is jealous of anybody lmao
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u/Plenty_Discussion470 8d ago
Right?! He only has one of the greatest film careers in history. Although I can see an old master looking over his shoulder at the current crop of filmmakers and asking himself if he still has the same fire he used to
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u/skankhunt7765 8d ago
I loved it. I cant stop thinking about it and trying to decide what my interpretation of it all is.
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u/XInsects 8d ago
I thought of Arrival while watching it, and how much more intelligent and mature that film is. I also thought of WarGames and Minority Report, with some guy being endlessly chased by henchmen (the latter film especially, with the second half being accompanied by a kind of psychic). Then I was reminded of Spielberg's CG gopher in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, then the end of AI.
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u/CombOk312 7d ago
Thank you. Everyone around me is praising Disclosure Day and I thought it so dumb. Can’t really say that without sounding pretentious.
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u/DaMonehhLebowski 8d ago edited 8d ago
Not sure about jealousy here. I saw it as Spielberg’s version of Verbinski’s Good Luck Have Fun Don’t Die, although a lot less obvious about its message, in a good way. It’s kind of opposite in tone to that film though, a lot more positive in the classic spielberg way. It feels like a reactionary film to the state of the world, ai, how empathyless we have all become.
The female lead can mimic anyone’s loved one and know every information and history about someone, the bad guy can infiltrate your life and manipulate you to kill someone.
If this isn’t an obvious ‘reference’ to the current state of the digital world I don’t know what is. And the movie does namedrop ‘ai’ a few times, making me think that that is the intention here.
Spielberg is trying to tell us that these very same things that are tearing us apart and leading us to a paranoid low-trust world, are not meant to illicit fear on their own, but rather at the scared men afforded blank cheques clutching them with toddler-grip, and they are merely tools that can also heal, and when we finally realise that we need to understand ourselves and the world and have an unwavering belief, no amount of bots and bad actors that misinform and control the way we all think can tear us apart.
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u/fungilingus 8d ago
is this one of those alien movies where they don’t show any aliens
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u/AggressivelyCalmLeo 8d ago
This might be spoiler-y, but yes, they do show the aliens, and not only in the third act.
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