You can learn about battles in a war film. A romantic comedy may offer tips about courtship. But alien movies can tell you nothing about aliens. Their message is always about human beings. Steven Spielberg’s alien oeuvre(全部作品，作品集) has some enduring morals. Don’t trust the government. Your loved ones may not understand you. Find your way home if you can. “Disclosure Day”, his new release, adds a cosmic plea(宇宙性的恳求): give peace a chance.
你可以从战争片中了解战斗。浪漫喜剧可能提供求爱建议。但外星电影不能告诉你关于外星人的任何事情。它们的信息总是关于人类的。史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格的外星题材作品集有一些永恒的道德教训：不要相信政府；你所爱的人可能不理解你；如果可能的话，找到回家的路。他的新作《披露日》增加了一个宇宙性的恳求：给和平一个机会。
Breathless and occasionally baffling, the plot of “Disclosure Day” is hard to summarise, but here goes: nuclear conflict looms in America. Yet Daniel (Josh O’Connor), a renegade(背叛者，叛逆者) cyber-security guy, has bigger worries. He is on the run from Wardex, a sinister agency, and its haunted(被困扰的，闹鬼的) boss (Colin Firth), identifiable as a villain by his posh English drawl(上流社会英国腔). Daniel plans to release Wardex’s record of contacts with alien spacecraft and “non-human biologics”. The archive goes back to 1947, which, as UFO-spotters can attest, was the date of an otherworldly crash-landing in Roswell, New Mexico.
《披露日》的情节令人屏息且偶尔令人困惑，很难概括，但大致如此：核冲突在美国逼近。然而网络安全叛逃者丹尼尔（乔什·奥康纳饰）有更大的担忧。他正被一个邪恶机构Wardex及其阴魂不散的老板（科林·费尔斯饰）追捕，这位老板因其上流社会的英国慢吞吞口音而可被识别为反派。丹尼尔计划公布Wardex与外星飞船和“非人类生物材料”的接触记录。这些档案可以追溯到1947年，正如UFO观察者可以证明的那样，那是新墨西哥州罗斯威尔发生外星坠毁的日期。
Daniel brings two other important things with him. First, his girlfriend Jane (Eve Hewson), who takes him to a convent where she once trained to become a nun. The sisters are there to reassure Jane—and devout viewers—that belief in aliens isn’t heretical(异端的). He also has a mysterious hand-held device, a cross between a shard of kryptonite and a mobile phone, which enables all manner of tricks, including a kind of mind-melding telepathy. What has this gizmo(小玩意儿，小装置) to do with the aliens, you may ask? Don’t expect a straight answer(别指望有直接回答).
丹尼尔还带来了另外两样重要的东西。首先，是他的女友简（伊芙·休森饰），她带他去了一个她曾经接受修女培训的修道院。修女们在那里向简——以及虔诚的观众——保证，相信外星人并非异端。他还有一个神秘的手持设备，介于氪石碎片和手机之间，可以实现各种把戏，包括一种心灵感应。你可能会问，这个小玩意儿和 aliens 有什么关系？别指望有直截了当的答案。