Aliens

You can hear more from Kim in previous Screenshot episodes looking at vampires or British dystopias, both on BBC Sounds now.

Ellen, I called Disclosure Day old-fashioned.

What did you make of it?

Really enjoyed it.

Really good fun at the cinema.

Exactly what I want an alien movie to be like.

But I, I did pick up on that old-fashioned vibe that you and Kim were talking about.

I, it's just that I would describe it as childlike and naive.

That was more-

Right

... where I was seeing it.

Like, it seems to me that Disclosure Day is part of actually quite a contemporary trend for alien films to describe this desire that we have for a parent-like alien to intervene from the heavens, deus ex machina-like, God the Father-like, and save us from this big mess of our own making.

So you're very much in the camp of the Carpenters Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft-

[laughs]

...

in which they want the aliens to come down and save us.

I'm not saying I'm necessarily of that ilk, but I think that that's the mood in culture now.

Because I'm t- I'm thinking about things like Pluribus.

Have you been watching that TV show as well?

Yes, I loved Pluribus.

Absolutely loved it.

Yeah.

Can't bear the fact that we're gonna have to wait ages for the second series, because the first series was so fantastic.

Yeah, I loved it too.

But it's also this kind of idea where the aliens come and they say, "Hang on.