Spielberg Delivers The Needed Disclosure Day

Imagine it. The unifying event humanity desperately needs, all put together in a way you can feel. After all the buzz throughout the years, and the recent round of critical reviews to the contrary, Steven Spielberg can still deliver. And he does it with a subtle but powerful punch in the end that makes sitting through Disclosure Day worthwhile.

Disclosure Day stars Colin Firth, Emily Blunt, Wyatt Russell, and Josh O'Connor. It's a Steven Spielberg adventure that brings together elements of government conspiracy, human drama, and questions about our existence in the Universe. And when the questions are finally answered, what a profound effect on mankind the answers will have.

Blunt plays a reporter experiencing strange events. As she sits with her boyfriend, she suddenly, and without knowing it, begins speaking fluent Russian. Later at work, as she is preparing to give the weather report, she helps a colleague by interpreting Korean, and everybody is surprised, while she's oblivious.

When it's her time to shine, and the spotlights are on her to give the weather report, as the world is rapidly spiraling toward World War III, she begins making strange sounds before she passes out.

Meanwhile, Colin Firth leads a shadowy cabal of government contractors as they try to catch up with a rogue doctor who's absconded with classified secrets. Daniel Kellner is on the run with the secrets to what the government's been doing behind the scenes of the UFO and Alien investigations, and the secrets go all the way back to the beginning, with the Roswell Crash.

As Margaret (Blunt) realizes something about what's happening to her may be connected to a traumatic event as a child, she finds she can connect with others, even at great distances. This inevitably brings her and Kellner together as their stories are on a parallel path, with both carrying an unknown secret from childhood.

Noah Scanlon (Colin Firth) and his team use strange technology to help him magnify an ability that keeps them hot on the heels of Kellner, and eventually Blunt, who knows she needs to find out what's really going on. This leads to a series of car chases, crashes, and chaos as Blunt and Kellner avoid being captured long enough to learn the truth.

With the help of Hugo (Colman Domingo), Margaret and Daniel discover that they were only kids when they experienced their first encounter with life from another planet. As young child abductees, they're connected in a way only they can understand, and with a piece of alien tech, they manage to avoid being apprehended by the agents who'll do anything to keep the world from knowing the truth.

What's a reporter to do when she's got the inside scoop on the story of a lifetime, even as all the world's news is focused on the coming world conflict? It's time to tell the story to the world. But with an army of agents tracking them, getting the truth out is a race against the clock.

Disclosure Day brings viewers face to face with the reality that humankind is not alone in the universe. But it does something even more thrilling. Spielberg makes the ultimate argument that governments of Earth should tell the people what they know. And if they have proof, show it to the world.

Blunt gets to the television studio with a little help, and she and her cohorts prepare to unveil a sordid history that proves not only that there has been alien contact, but that the governments and industries working with them have been reverse-engineering alien technology for the past seventy-plus years. Not only that, they've found living biological non-terrestrial survivors, and the proof is on video.

Right to the bitter end, they fight until the leader of the agents, Noah, relents and decides not to stop them. And that's when it happens.

The Unifying Moment Humanity Needed

When, from the battlefields and troop transports and the streets of major cities and living rooms, all the eyes turn from the seemingly end of days to what's shocking every human being on Earth simultaneously, in that one moment, all the world ends up on the same page. Every man, woman, and child of our world is faced with the startling knowledge that aliens have been on Earth. There's no more doubt, no denying it, because the secrets are all out.

Each news agency switches as the feed is sent to every broadcast station around the globe. Finally, humanity is unified, if only for one reason. There's more to the universe than just us. But for the doubters, those who might call it a hoax, Hugo and his team have one final disclosure.

On live television, after showing the world the atrocities done to the visiting creatures, all in the name of science, there's a surprise that even Margaret (Blunt) wasn't expecting. A living, breathing alien life.

By the end of disclosure day, it feels for a moment like the answers are right there in front of everyone. And a whole new line of questions should start to arise. What have we been doing?

Speilberg's use of the Grays as an example of the alien life we have been detaining, abusing, and experimenting on feels genuinely upsetting as the newscasters sit with the world as one after another piece of evidence is unveiled to the global audience. And it makes you think: if it were to happen, would we be that abusive?

The questions of our own humanity come to the forefront of your conscious mind as the tense ending sits with you. The eight-foot-tall Gray says something blunt, and as she's about to tell the cameras in the studio, fade to black.

Disclosure Day is right up there with the classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind for those who grew up intrigued by the idea of our eventual first contact with life from another planet. It's a harsh look at the reality that our governments may take a dastardly approach to how they respond, even as more and more people openly accept the likelihood that aliens are real, they've been here, and may still be among us.

Check out Disclosure Day, and get ready for a strange and intriguing ride.