Steve Ahlman

This is the deal.

That's a huge fucking deal, right?

And it's a gigantic, earth-shattering, huge changing deal.

It reorients the perspective on everything.

It changes history.

People will start to relitigate crop circles and Stonehenge and whatever other phenomenon that they believe in.

That would be a thing.

There, of course, would be some people who believed in it and some people who didn't believe in it.

My point about the movie is that the movie is not concerned really in any real way with the ramifications of that.

The movie is concerned with a struggle between the people who want to make this truth known and the people who don't.

That's what the movie is about.

Well, Colin Firth doesn't believe in the humanity of the aliens.

The difference between Colin Firth and Joshua Connor and Emily Blunt to a lesser degree because she's kind of a passenger.

No empathy.

and Coleman Domingo is that Coleman Domingo is still open to the bounty of connection to the degree that he's allowed himself to connect with these aliens and believes them to be more than what they are.

Colin Firth has experienced this great trauma and tragedy in his life.

And that's hardened him.

And so he doesn't even want to have the conversation about whether or not what he's doing is wrong.

He's in pain.

And because he's in pain, he's taking it out on probably the aliens, but more the idea that we should be in community with them, which is kind of...