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TannerT :
I completely agree with her. I just kept thinking during the ending that no one in real life would believe in the evidence despite the proof. And her real world evidence is so true.
2026-06-14 20:52:01
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Tim Poundstone :
Yeah. I liked the movie. But this take resonates at a deeply unsettling level. What have we lost….is it gone forever?
2026-06-14 20:15:04
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Jimmie Robinson! :
I think the actual aim Steven Spielberg was going for was that humans need more empathy, it’s not really about the aliens. So he creates this idealist movie where empathy wins and that we all have the same world view of what is supposed to matter. It’s a rose-colored take.
2026-06-17 23:38:33
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_renlaux :
We literally live w disclosures everyday and nothing has changed 😭
2026-06-16 15:08:08
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laura 🍄 :
Is this why it was such an underwhelming movie for me?
2026-06-14 21:35:47
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Ronnie :
"Do I still have yo go to work tomorrow"
2026-06-15 01:42:33
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Soto :
Spoiler: The outcome of the disclosure isn’t in the movie. We don’t see how it affects the world after that specific event. There is no justice be done moment. No big arrests. Nothing. I don’t even know if the thesis of the movie is the one that’s being hinted at here
2026-06-15 05:32:33
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Nategh360 :
I haven’t seen the movie but given what I know about what the tone is and where it ends, it feels like this movie would have connected with people much more 20 years ago
2026-06-15 03:10:21
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KokoMoko :
I guess I'm also far too cynical for this movie bc I did not enjoy it.
2026-06-14 14:16:50
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Nutty Plofessor :
This is such a good take
2026-06-14 13:14:00
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Aye :
Can someone please explain to me where we’re supposed to believe the alien at the end of the film came from? Are we supposed to infer that Hugo smuggled the alien out? If so, why wouldn’t the company extended infinitely more resources finding the alien compared to footage they could reasonably claim is doctored? Was the split second appearance of Hugo in the montage of footage meant to imply he had a relationship with this species outside of his work?
2026-06-14 20:59:46
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Mxyzplk :
Yeah the entire concept behind the movie would have resonated in the late 90s/early 2000s but Spielberg’s cultural relevance has faded and not with the current spirit of the age.
2026-06-15 05:07:53
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Shannon :
Thank you!! I lost Letterboxd friends over having this exact issue with the movie 😅 I just couldn’t even pretend that America is whatever Spielberg was trying to say it was
2026-06-15 20:02:02
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LauraRoxanne :
I’m glad she was able to put into words how I was feeling about the movie but couldn’t put my finger on it.
2026-06-15 00:39:29
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TMcGee445 :
Finally someone verbalizing how I felt about that movie. It was so out of place given where we are today.
2026-06-15 01:16:16
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Tom :
The most important lesson to learn about Watergate is that Nixon resigned and was pardoned by his VP Ford.
2026-06-15 03:13:56
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domdaddyE :
Man this is so damn sad and true.
2026-06-14 20:54:27
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clip_pod :
This is such a good take
2026-06-15 12:17:20
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brentover :
Spot on
2026-06-14 22:32:29
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mb :
This is why I think it was a missed opportunity to have the Boyd character (Colin Firths 2nd in command) not believe. He was the only other person who touched the alien artifact and somehow that didn't mean anything besides showing us they could go invisible. Thought it would be cool for him to be "shown the light and the truth" by the object and still reject it in the end because it just didn't fit into the beliefs that hes ordered his life around.
2026-06-14 16:42:46
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THR :
That’s what this comes down to. This movie cannot support cynicism. You give your self over to its optimism or you will find plenty of holes to poke. But I think the movie is trying to remind you it’s okay to give yourself over to hope.
2026-06-14 15:40:55
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Joshua Cosico :
Damn that heavy and well said
2026-06-14 18:40:18
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Alejandro Rivero :
The only thing I could think during the final sequence was if this "special report" interrupted the NBA finals, I'd be more mad and try to find a way to stream it on my phone than pay any attention to the news.
2026-06-15 06:09:18
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squirrel_hittin_a_yart :
The very reason they disclose these things at all is so that they can boldface tell you, "We know nobody who did this is going to jail." If they told you the stuff they can't show to the public, it would end poorly. I think it's well and truly common knowledge that the government can censor anyone instantly and permanently. If you were truly showing things the government could not allow to be shown, you would be silenced immediately and they wouldn't leave any trace of what you said at all. "If we just expose how they did [insert atrocity], then surely their career is over!", if you believe that you might as well have a lollipop and a propeller hat. I don't mean to be nasty but you gotta lock in and not let people trick you. Remember when they were disclosing the MKUltra files and they shredded about 90% of the files on it and they just went, "Oopsie daisy," and nobody went to jail? Or you remember when they told you that they destroyed or hid a lot of the info on The Finders in the declassified files on The Finders themselves, and then nobody went to jail? This idea rich people have any consequences at all for what they do needs to go, it's the fakest shit ever, they wrote the laws. Epstein is not the first time this has happened and it won't be the last either
2026-06-16 16:26:42
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Btjmn :
W take
2026-06-17 06:26:24
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