Meg took this photo at the Roswell Museum several years ago.
Spielberg: does anyone in the universe NOT know who this guy is?
I’ve loved most of his movies, from ET to Schlinder’s List and The Sugarland Express, Jurrasic Park to Indiana Jones & the Crystal Skull…and well, you get the idea. I’ve been a fan for years and his movies have certainly increased my interest in this area. And have influenced what I write. Also, we’ve had a number of alleged abductees and definite experts on all this on our podcast.
Rob & I went to see Disclosure Day this last night. The movie is long – 2 and a half hours. Emily Blunt is fantastic & so is Josh O’Connor. The entire cast is good.But the story left me…wanting more of what wasn’t included. And the beginning left us confused. “Is this the movie?” Rob asked.
“Yeah, I think so.” But I wasn’t sure, either.
And that’s how it was for about the first hour. Okay, yes, I got hungry, and popcorn just wasn’t doing it and that was a distraction. But the movie started on a confusing note and despite outstanding performances from the actors, the confusion got twisted up with way too many car chases. Toward the end of the movie, things got clearer, particularly in a scene where we see Emily Blunt abducted as a child and where she initially meets Josh O’Connor. It’s the scene where the movie should have started.
Instead, it started with a UFC championship. That was the point where Rob & I thought we’d walked into the wrong theater, the wrong movie.
But there are some scenes that are classical – the way Emily Blunt’s psychic ability shows itself when she’s stopped by a cop and in moments, reads what’s going on in his life. The cop is so stunned she drives on. The way she suddenly speaks Russian and Korean on the spur of the moment, the way she begins to remember events from her childhood.
There’s a chaotic scene at a gas station where dozens of people are hurrying out with water and other supplies and for a few minutes,it reminded me of what happens here when a hurricane is headed our way. But it’s because WWIII has begun with Korea. But that fact wasn’t readily apparent.
I read that Spielberg wanted to show what happens to whistleblowers and he does that effectively. Here and there he includes scenes from what most of us know about the history of UFOs: a reference to Roswell and the aliens found there, Nixon’s meeting with Jacquie Gleason in 1973 when he supposedly showed him corpses of the Roswell aliens kept at Homestead Air Force base.
When disclosure finally happens in the movie, there’s a powerful scene of people all over the world watching on their cell phones & tablets & TVs, humanity collectively enthralled.
The movie is certainly worth seeing, but doesn’t reveal anything new. It also doesn’t capture who these aliens actually are, within themselves, as ET did.
