Disclosure Day

We promise we are not going to include any spoilers.

While waiting in the theater lobby, we spoke with the teenager working the concessions stand. She said she could not figure out what the movie was about by the trailer. I asked if she had seen Close Encounters of a Third Kind, and she said, no. We recommended to her, and we recommend to all of you, that if you have not seen Close Encounters, you should stream it before you go to this movie. It is a great palate cleanser before the main course, so to speak.

Stock Photo Devil's Tower, Crook County, Wyoming

We enjoyed the film, even though some of the dialogue was overly expositive, in order, we believe, to get a less familiar audience up to speed. This movie is the next step in Spielberg’s evolution of UFO movies. The plot arc is similar, and the characters share idiosyncrasies or tics, like Roy and Jillian. And there is the “big bad government” working with a “big bad corporation” on a long-term special access program. I am working on the anagram for which actual corporate ticker symbols were shuffled to come up with WARDEX.

Spielberg does like to embed some real items in his films, as he did in Close Encounters, with characters like Claude Lacombe as the stand-in for Jacques Vallée or adding J. Allen Hynek among the observing scientists. We are sure it will not be long before we start to learn of all the little “hat tips” that the director has added to this film.

This is a bird, not a UFO, but who knows what is hiding in the cloud.

It’s probably too much to ask that if the release of this film “warms people up” to the idea that UFOs and non-humans/aliens are real, that the US government, and its co-conspirators, give us the “data dump” on what they have and what they know, and stop hedging about “people not being able to handle the truth” a la Col. Nathan R. Jessup in A Few Good Men. We, like Lt. Daniel Kaffee, want the truth, and we believe the world is ready and able to handle it.

We viewed this film at a matinee, and for $20 for the ticket, a soda and popcorn, there are not much better, or cheaper, ways to spend two and a half hours on a Friday afternoon.