**Spoiler alert**
Steven Spielberg’s latest release, Disclosure Day proves to be yet another propaganda piece promoting the existence of aliens. Starring Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor and Colin Firth, Spielberg wraps his extraterrestrial-loving tentacles around viewers’ throats to shove down fictitious alien narratives designed to distract from government experimentation of transhumans. All the while, he conspires with religious institutions to legitimise his claims and undermine Christianity.
Daniel Kellner (Josh O’Connor) plays a whistleblower as he experiences a crisis of conscience working as cybersecurity for Wardex, a covert agency that holds classified information about these unethical experiments. His decision that the world should know the truth about them is predominantly what drives the film. His statement, “If they can rewrite the origin of humanity, they can rewrite everything we believe,” is ironically true, depending on whom one believes to be the origin of humanity.
His bleeding heart convinces him it is his ethical duty to expose the truth and seek justice for “aliens”, a supposedly superior minority in need of protection from the evil corporation and its governmental overlords. So he throws all company loyalty out the window and makes it his mission to reveal government experimentation on humans….I mean aliens. He steals the data and the super-galactic gadgets and goes on the run.
Shortly after, Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt) is seen experiencing a kind of awakening when she is confronted by a pretty red bird. Her faith is unknown and as far as viewers can tell, she has none. But the scene suggests the bird empowers her with psychic abilities to speak multiple languages, read people’s pasts, predict their futures and essentially become their saviour/helper. It turns out, she becomes a sort of transhuman with artificial intelligence downloaded into her cerebral. Spielberg calls her an alien.
At its core, Spielberg would have us believe there is a relationship between religion and the cosmos . He blends the two in such a way that undermines Christian faith. A kind of Close Encounters with The Da Vinci Code except without the cool action scenes and impressive architecture. You can almost hear him whispering that faith is not the whole story, that it needs to expand to fit a universe that is supposedly bigger than God. He even uses the Catholic church through the character of ex-nun Jane (Eve Hewson) to further support and propagate the idea that Christ has limited strength in this world.
This is seen when Jane is interrupted virtually by Wardex agent, Noah Scanlon (Colin Firth). He convinces her that the world is not ready to hear the truth about transhumans, I mean aliens. He also manages to persuade her to kill her husband Daniel to prevent him from “destroying mankind” with the truth. She unsuccessfully uses a crucifix in an attempt to withstand Noah’s brainwashing, which leads to Daniel’s capture. Spielberg strategically zooms in on the crucifix as it falls from her hand to the ground. Rendered powerless and irrelevant against technologically superior intergalactic gadgets, yet still powerful enough to trigger Jane’s conscience that prevents her from stabbing Daniel.
The movie culminates in the bleeding-hearts club hijacking fakestream media outlets globally to expose the truth about governmental “alien” experimentation and abuse, adding yet another minority to the ever-growing list. Corporate giant Wardex quietly slinks away, living another day to conduct more evil experiments.
Despite the usual anti-Christian tropes, it wasn’t a bad film overall, that is if you can stomach the obvious messaging and see through the lies. Emily Blunt and Colin Firth rarely disappoint, and there were moments where I couldn’t help but laugh a little to myself. The action scenes however, were low-quality and below Spielberg’s usual standard. It seemed like he cared little about quality, relying instead on the fact, most filmgoers will flock to see the movie simply because his name is attached to it.
The film leaves viewers confused about who the protagonists and antagonists truly are. Although it promotes the view that Wardex is the evil corporation and aliens are the supremely, morally virtuous, Spielberg seems to be the real antagonist and we, the audience, his victims. He challenges our faith by implying that the supreme being is not the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but a superior lifeform that has been “discovered” or is still in the process of being manufactured. Whatever shape this lifeform takes, it has the potential to become the new religion for undiscerning masses and I fear they will bow down and worship it.
““Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There!’ do not believe it. For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. “Therefore if they say to you, ‘Look, He is in the desert!’ do not go out; or ‘Look, He is in the inner rooms!’ do not believe it. For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.”
Matthew 24:23-24, 26-27 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/mat.24.24-27.NKJV
Margo Hus 