Steven Spielberg’s new film, Disclosure Day, is now in theaters, and it comes with a few promises. Those promises are: it’s a movie about aliens, and it’s a movie where something about aliens is going to be disclosed. But what exactly is being disclosed, how does it happen, and what does it ultimately mean? Those are the questions you sit down in the theater for.
And, once you’ve done that, we thought you might like to go back through what happens in the end to discuss it in a bit more detail. Massive spoilers follow. After many wonderful twists and turns, we learn that Daniel and Margaret were both abducted briefly as children and given crucial and superhuman abilities. Daniel could read and use the universal language of math, making it possible to communicate between the aliens and humans. Margaret was given the ability to see inside a person and understand their deepest emotions, helping the aliens understand humans. We watch Margaret’s abilities play out in several stunning scenes, including one where she appears to people as their dead or estranged loved ones. It instantly became one of my favorite Spielberg scenes ever.
With Daniel and Margaret now fully aware of the truth and their role in it, the pair and their friends head to the news station in Kansas City to begin disclosure day. Margaret gets on air so she can communicate with the viewers, and Daniel stays in the control room to upload and play all the files he stole from Wardex. (Side note: the teamwork and journalism in these scenes make them even more exciting and satisfying.)
