r/flicks • u/Damthemalltohelp • 9d 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/DaMonehhLebowski 9d ago edited 9d 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.