Man who spent 50 years making the world imagine alien contact through cinema has apparently made the film that makes all the others feel like preparation.
Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day has generated first reactions so unanimously powerful that critics and early audiences are placing it alongside the most celebrated work of his entire career, calling it his finest film in 20 years and describing it as a cinematic experience that transcends the science fiction genre entirely.
Colman Domingo, one of the film’s stars, described it as one of the most hopeful films he has ever been part of, a word choice that has generated enormous analytical attention given the subject matter’s history of producing fear rather than hope in popular culture.
Spielberg has publicly stated that everything depicted about alien contact in this film is true and has been true all along, a declaration from a director with documented relationships with military and intelligence insiders spanning five decades that lands with extraordinary weight during the most active disclosure period in American history.
The Pentagon released classified files. Congress heard sworn testimony. Trump acknowledged seeing an alien. Spielberg finished his film at the precise convergence of all of it. First reactions say it is his best work in 20 years. The director who prepared humanity for contact may have just delivered the farewell to secrecy that disclosure needed.
