Disenchanted Wonder: Spielberg's Disclosure Day and the Illusion of Certitude

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Spielberg's Disclosure Day is seen as mawkish and conventional, trading awe for familiar benevolent, human-like aliens and sentimental mythmaking that dulls mystery, in contrast to Kubrick's suggestive approach and Villeneuve's Arrival, while Spielberg's public embrace of belief and his blending of ufology with SETI are argued to turn a conspiratorial premise into a comforting guardian fantasy, ignoring the cosmos's silence as the real unsettling truth and signaling a pre-Copernican move away from wonder.