DISCLOSURE DAY

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Review by Victoria Alexander

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD

Terrible. A big disappointment. It has two great action scenes, and it does have a reveal at the end. Adding a Mother Superior of nuns was a howl. Where was Spielberg’s magic?

It has long been UFO lore that Steven Spielberg, because of E.T. and CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, was given secret government information. If anyone would be told at a private dinner the truth of alien visitation, it would have been Spielberg or Tom Clancy.

Visiting Tom at his Chesapeake Bay compound—the one with the World War II tank* on the way to the main house—I asked him about alien contact. He said he didn’t believe in any of it. Tom’s direct answer was, “If it were true, someone would have told me.”

Bravo, Tom.

DISCLOSURE DAY confirms that Spielberg has never been “read in.” If DISCLOSURE DAY was intentional in order to prepare us for alien-human contact, Spielberg and screenwriter David Koepp have failed. It’s a ho-hum.

Daniel Kellner (Josh O’Connor) was hired by WARDEX after serving eight years in prison for tech crimes. WARDEX is a secretive organization that has no formal government oversight and a big black budget. For over 70 years, WARDEX, now under the control of villain Noah Scanlon (Colin Firth), has been deeply involved with following the activity of an alien race interacting with humans.

Noah is a silly, poorly written character. Does he have a special relationship with the alien chief, and is he jealously guarding it? Has he been doling out alien technology to benefit WARDEX, while mainstream scientists are still carping about Einstein’s equations? Those equations are the best we have, but they don’t hold up under scrutiny.

While Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity is remarkably accurate on a cosmic scale, it fundamentally breaks down when applied to the extreme microscopic environments of quantum mechanics.

As long as gravity still works, we’re golden.

Film stars of the caliber of Colin Firth are not directed. After a long career in movies, it is an insult to tell a star what to do or how to say a line of dialogue. Famous actors direct themselves. So in Firth’s case, I assume his overacting, mustache-twirling villain was his idea. Where was the complexity of Noah?

Daniel has been influenced by a former WARDEX scientist, Hugo Wakefield (Colman Domingo), who runs an equally secretive, wealthy organization. Hugo knows what WARDEX has but needs the physical proof.

With all our moaning about “conspiracy” and the need for “disclosure,” what would happen if we found out that humans are a fluke and there is no other human-like intelligence out there?

Hugo convinces Daniel to hightail it out of WARDEX with a backpack of original files.

Regardless of the treasonous illegality of Daniel’s action, the world must know the truth: We are not the only intelligent life in the universe.

One video shows the long-held silly myth that President Nixon wanted to impress the great Jackie Gleason by showing him the dead bodies of aliens.

Daniel absconded with the original files and walked out. WARDEX had no security in place to check bags and people leaving the facility.

The aliens are amongst us!

Does this mean I can live rent-free because they are here to help us?

Is Elon Musk on his way to Mars?

Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt) is transfixed one morning by a red cardinal bird.

While Daniel is being hunted by WARDEX and a squad of killers, weather woman Margaret steps in front of her morning TV show and starts talking in clicks! She is speaking alien!

Margaret is over 35 years old and has a live-in boyfriend, Jackson (Wyatt Russell). Of course, Jackson adores Margaret and appears to have some kind of job. There is no purpose for Jackson. Or is it because there would be too many questions if Margaret was 35, not married, and without a boyfriend?

Margaret begins displaying extraordinary insight to every person she meets. She demands Jackson drive her north. Then east. She meets up with Daniel, who understands the alien language.

The aliens have found just two people who they have deemed special enough to impart special information to.

Currently, the population of Earth is 8.3 billion. Outside of some physical differences, all humans have the same body, organs, brains, and senses. No one, that I know of—and I keep tabs on this—has special powers.

Margaret and Daniel must flee all the dangerous elites after them while lugging, dropping, and nearly losing the backpack. Why not just download the files, be done with it, and jump on a plane to Russia?

Edward Snowden leaked NSA documents and fled to Russia.

Hugo wants to properly release the videos himself all over the world at once.

Noah and his people kidnap Margaret and want to trade the original files for Margaret.

What happens when those videos are downloaded and everyone is watching them on their cell phones on the New York subway while on their way to work? No one seems freaked out.

Everything still goes on as before. No one has jumped out of a skyscraper window. People expect the barista at Starbucks to be there to take their order.

Civilization does not come to a screeching halt.

The aliens are amongst us!

SPOILER ALERT:

DISCLOSURE DAY ends with the reveal: Spielberg and Koepp bring out the living alien in a wheelchair, with an enormous head and a thin, naked body. The alien struggles to stand to whisper something in Margaret’s ear.

**Let’s review accepted time frames: The universe is 13.8 billion years old. Initial life on Earth was microscopic, single-celled organisms that evolved just a few hundred million years after the planet formed roughly 4.5 billion years ago. One to 1.6 billion years ago, plant-like algae appeared. It took another 500 million years for plants to transition to dry land. Over 500–600 million years ago, fish-like creatures started to appear in the ancient oceans. Fish transitioned into land animals 360 to 390 million years ago. Around 230 to 245 million years ago, dinosaurs emerged.

By 200 million years ago, dinosaurs ruled. Earth would have remained a dinosaur planet if it wasn’t for the large irritant of an asteroid that slammed into Earth 65 million years ago. It may have taken 1,000 years for the complete wiping out of dinosaurs. This momentous event opened up a small niche for little creatures who would be our forerunners.

So if we find life on another planet like ours, will it be a planet of dinosaurs?

*A functional WWII-era tank costs anywhere from $250,000 to over $1,000,000, heavily dependent on historical provenance, originality, and operational status. Then there are ongoing yearly costs.

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