‘Disclosure Day’ Ending Explained: What Does “Listen” Mean?

Steven Spielberg‘s Disclosure Day (now streaming on VOD platforms like Prime Video) is not exactly an alien invasion thriller. He’s only done one of those, 2005’s War of the Worlds, and in a lot of ways, Disclosure Day feels as much like a response to that movie as a spiritual sequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, his 1977 hit that some speculated he might be secretly sequel-izing with his latest film. But no, Disclosure Day is not Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind, nor is it another movie about aliens laying waste to the globe (even though it was released awfully close to the 30th anniversary of Independence Day). Instead, like so many of Spielberg’s alien movies, it’s actually about people (though he does believe in aliens, too). Specifically, people who have been affected by a