Legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg’s most ambitious and highly anticipated sci-fi film, Disclosure Day, is finally here. The movie stars Emily Blunt as Kansas City TV meteorologist Margaret Fairchild and Josh O’Connor as young cybersecurity expert Daniel Kellner, who were imbued with special gifts by non-human lifeforms in their childhood and are now determined to prove their existence in front of the world, while corporations like WRDEX and its evil head Noah Scanlon try to stop them.
Disclosure Day opens in an atmosphere of uncertainty and unease, as fears of an impending doomsday event and growing concerns about World War III dominate discussions at Margaret’s news station. When Daniel and his new girlfriend Jane were on the run from WRDEX, with video evidence of extraterrestrials, they came across Margaret speaking an unusual language on live television that only Daniel could understand.
Although Daniel was ultimately arrested, he entrusted Jane with the alien device, which later proved instrumental in revealing the truth to the entire world.
Were Margaret and Daniel successful in their mission in Disclosure Day? Here’s what happened.
Disclosure Day ending explained: Hugo re-created Margaret’s childhood home
Margaret finally learned the truth behind her strange abilities and the gifts imbued in her by other lifeforms in the ending of Disclosure Day. After Hugo re-created her childhood home in his hideout to trigger Margaret’s memories, she regained her memories of aliens, who took on animal forms to guide her to a spaceship, where she was experimented on and given the ability to speak all languages. As the movie revealed, Daniel is fluent in the universal language of mathematics and sees equations all around him, which is why he understood Margaret on the television.
Disclosure Day proves that Margaret and Daniel were chosen & visited by aliens on February 23, 1996, who granted them special gifts.
While the duo was ecstatic to learn about their special connection with aliens, Noah and WRDEX circled Hugo’s warehouse. Margaret used the alien device to make everybody invisible and help them flee in fire trucks, but it eventually burned out and was destroyed.
The truth about the aliens was out
The Disclosure Day ending shifted the action to Margaret’s news station, KCXE in Kansas City. As the duo prepared to broadcast the truth about other lifeforms, Noah’s company disabled the power station and the backup generator. However, Jane arrived just in time with the original alien device, which was used to power up the station again.
Realizing he had lost the race, Noah sat back and watched as Margaret delivered her report to the world, revealing that the US Government had known about the existence of aliens since the 1947 Roswell crash and that WRDEX had aided in the cover-up. After the Kecksburg Pennsylvania incident in 1965 was proven to be a real UFO Crash, people all around the world stopped in their tracks to watch the special report, which was broadcast on all news channels. Archival footage showed charred bodies of aliens and living beings being escorted to a secretive US base.
For a movie like Disclosure Day, built around the possibility of alien existence, Steven Spielberg could not have ended it without an actual alien reveal. Just as the world watched evidence of other lifeforms, Hugo wheeled somebody/something into the studio, none other than In Vivo 17, the imprisoned non-human lifeform whom he freed before the events of the movie.
How does Disclosure Day end?
Disclosure Day ended in ambiguity after In Vivo 17 whispered something into Daniel’s ear, which he translated for Margaret, and she geared up to deliver the non-human lifeform’s message to the world. However, the movie ended before Margaret could deliver this important message, creating speculation and anticipation among viewers.
While there could be different readings of In Vivo 17’s message at the end of the movie, one can imagine it to be a message of hope and empathy. While Noah and his organization wanted to conceal the aliens’ existence to protect humanity, the movie suggests that the reveal could unite humans against this vast expanse of the universe.
Steven Spielberg’s movie opened with geopolitical turmoil in Europe and Korea, an impending WWIII and general unrest, which came to a standstill as humans came together to watch this monumental reveal unfold before their eyes. Additionally, as Hugo revealed, aliens consider empathy the “foremost evolutionary advantage,” whose rejection could lead to extinction.
Disclosure Day leaves with a clear message. Alien lifeforms should not be feared but used to expand the scope of human knowledge and bridge the gaps currently creeping into our world.
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Edited by Aashna