Mallory Rubin
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They're retrofitting and reverse engineering to try to make new tech and they're using what they've discovered.
They're taking the aliens and they're holding them and they're torturing them and they're tormenting them and they're trying to learn and they're not actually learning anything of consequence.
I don't know if what Spielberg is interested in doing in this movie is possible if it's a period piece because it feels like it –
The foundation is the undeniable aspect of a period of time of withholding and obfuscating and denying the public the truth that they deserve to know.
But then it's like the response that people have
using broadcast news instead of the internet, aspects like that have to be different because they have to feel more of the moment.
It's a difficult melding attempt, I think, to say the story requires 80 years of deception, but the response does not feel like it exists in a period of time that's 80 years after Roswell.
So, yeah, that's the ending of this movie.
It's very, very, very, very, very, very strange at the end.
Even just the way that people in the various newsrooms are responding, none of that made any sense.
It's funny because when everybody boots up their phones, the shot in particular on the airplane, I'm just like, literally not everyone has Wi-Fi up, stuff like that, whatever.
We do have real-life examples of the great meme, everybody's watching the World Cup and the one dude is watching the World Cup.