I recently watched the movie “Disclosure Day” (and also watched “Don’t Look Up” and “Project Hail Mary”) and also read the book “Contact” and here is what I feel about them.
Not sure what is it with media content these days, one cannot remember it for a longer duration. Everything feels transient.
I am sure I am going to forget these 2 as well: The movie and the book both. Not because they are not in anyways not worth remembering. Both of them are. And due to nostalgia and inertia, I was hooked by both of them. But because I came across them so late in life. Disclosure Day was released in June 2026. So it is not late but the movie itself could’ve been released 20 years late. Contact, released in 1980s (which is as far away from Now, as World War 2 was in 1980s) is considered a milestone in itself but I happened to read it 10 years after watching Interstellar.
Coming to the point: We have seen so many things inspired from Spielberg himself and watched enough Cosmos related shows inspired from Carl Sagan himself, that novelty is missing. Though, if one is enough open minded, certainly they both are quiet moving. I should not club both but since I did already, here is my short take on both, respectively.
Disclosure Day was a good movie. But not great. The cliffhanger ending was certainly the best part. We did see brilliant action sequence involving the chase and the train which reminded me of classic Spielberg. But Disclosure didn’t give me closure.
Contact is something to re-read, specially the part about how would the world react when an Alien Civilization would be at our doorstep. But would we actually react this way or it would be like the movie “Don’t Look Up”? I think the latter.
Only if “Project Hail Mary”‘s premise (I should rewatch this surely) becomes real, that Earth’s days are indeed limited, only then something would happen.
Otherwise, in general, going by the newscycles nowadays, general nihilism about everything would shock us negligibly if we get to know that we are not alone.
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