Director – Steven Spielberg – 2026 – US – Cert. 12A – 145m
The first two hours *****
The last half hour ***
Hoping to reveal to mankind the hitherto censored truth about aliens visiting Earth, a man and a woman flee their pursuers across the United States – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, June 10th
The plot is in the title. This is the day we find out. The day when everything is revealed. As in the film’s posters. The man (Josh O’Connor) and the woman (Emily Blunt) saw a deer and a bird. The implication is that that encounter caused them to see and understand; the title further suggests that they want to disseminate that understanding to the wider world. All this sounds very evangelical to me: receive the message, get the word out. You shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall set you free.
Daniel (O’Connor) has been caught with a rucksack containing a bunch of objects. My first thought was that they were small mobile phones. Towards the movie’s end when he uploads information from these objects to a TV network for worldwide, open broadcast, you’ll work out that these objects are data sticks. At this early stage, though, they’re collectively the MacGuffin, the information which must not be disclosed to the world at large.… Read the rest
