Disclosure Day combines pseudo-science with pseudo-religion;
Another plank in Hollywood's war on the Catholic Church
Disclosure Day is the climax of 50 years of ET grooming by Steven Spielberg who, in a CBS interview, said
The actual idea that we have been under observation and been interacted with is something that I have always hung on to as a core truth …[It’s] inspired movies like ‘Close Encounters,’ like ‘E.T.,’ … leading up to, as I call it, my science fiction summation movie, which is ‘Disclosure Day.’ [1]
The movie appears to be a strategic plank in the message against the Church. Some would say the rollout of the antichrist. The message is simple, "hey Catholics, it's fine to believe in aliens, nothing to worry about." The movie doesn't make a direct assault on Catholicism. It absorbs Catholicism.
Let's unravel the flashbacks and put the movie in chronological order.
The abduction
The aliens "shape-shift" to become animals. Ironically, this is similar to when satan became a snake in The Garden (Gen 3). However, in the movie, the animals (aliens) are saviours, hmmm.
Young Margaret wakes up in her bedroom and sings "One Day my Prince will Arrive" from Disney's Sleeping Beauty. A deer, fox, and cardinal appear to her and lead her out through the woods to a fairy-tale-like "gingerbread house" where the animals reveal themselves as aliens. Unlike real life (demonic) child abduction experiences, Margaret voluntarily walks with the animals to the experience.
Daniel, the other child abductee, meets Margaret for the first time. They undergo a procedure where they are given latent supernatural gifts and a life mission to be the bridge between humanity and the aliens. This is pehaps an ape of supernatural experiences of Catholic visionaries, such as the Fatima children, sent to warn the world.
The aliens suppress their memory until they are adults. The movie portrays this abduction as heavenly, while real life abduction experiences closely mimic the cadence of demonic black masses, and usually occur in children whose parents have exposed the family to the occult or deep sin. It's tragic that this movie encourages these children to affirm their experience, rather than seek spiritual deliverance. After this movie, UFO minded people will be thinking about aliens every time they see an interesting bird or animal. Perhaps that's the point.
The villain, Noah, has the name of a Bible hero
We have a very WOKE concept of villian. Noah Scanlon (Colin Firth) is a middle aged straight white male cradle Catholic. He leads WARDEX, a private company in the industrial military complex, which is hiding the truth from the public about alien bodies, files, and technology. They torture aliens for information.
The world is on the brink of World War III and people are looting stores. The aliens decide it's time to save the world (even though humans torture them).
Daniel has a gift for math and steals thousands of secret files and alien devices (Edward Snowden style). WARDEX kidnaps Jane Blankenship (Eve Hewson), Daniel's girlfriend, for ransom, to get back the stolen stuff. Daniel meets WARDEX at a "Grudgefest" wrestling match (this is the movie's opening scene showing brutal humanity compared to the "empathetic" aliens we meet later). The ransom exchange between Daniel and WARDEX collapses in confusion.
Daniel and Jane escape to the Monastery of St. Clare where Jane was previously a novice. Jane reconnects with her former mentor, Sister Maura (Elizabeth Marvel). They stay overnight.
Hugo (Colman Domingo), a hero, is modeled after the famous John E. Mack an abduction "researcher" and ET promoter. Spielberg did a similar model character in Close Encounters, modelling the lead UFOlogist after the famous ET promoter Jacques Vallee. HUGO leads a group of 12 former WARDEX employees, the "Quiet 12" whistleblowers (pseudo-apostles). He arranges a safehouse farmhouse in the country where Daniel and Jane go for safety from the convent.
Margaret Fairchild
In a separate plot, Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt ), the other childhood abductee, has grown up and is a frustrated meteorologist. She is visited by an alien disguised as a cardinal. This visit activates "the gift" (a pseudo-pentecost). She can then speak any language, prophesize, read minds, and has the supernatural gift of empathy, because humans don't have empathy, don't ya know?
Margaret involuntarily makes morse code type clicking noises during a broadcast.
At the farmhouse Daniel sees the broadcast on his smartphone and interprets it. This is a pseudo-tongues where one speaks the word and another is interpreting it (1 Cor 14:27-28).
The message translates to
"Don't be afraid of what you don't know."
It's an invitation to the audience to open themselves up to aliens.
They discuss the reality of aliens as the "core truth of the universe," Jane says that "people will see these as deities" and stop believing.
Daniel says to Jane "you left the Church"
Jane replies "…because I could no longer say with certainty that god is divine …God is essential because it's how we define ourselves and this belief keeps whole civilizations together. ... We've been raised to believe in a supreme being. And now you [Daniel] want to show us ACTUAL supreme beings…"
Later, Jane is remotely "pseudo-diabolically possessed" by Noah using a special alien device that gives him that influence. Noah tries to frame Jane's submission to him as a virtue, and resistance as selfish, harming humanity. He uses Jesus' words in the garden to try to manipulate Jane to stop Daniel from disclosing, even killing him if necessary.
Noah: Father, if you be willing, let this cup pass me by, yet not as I will but as You will. And what did Christ say next?
Jane: not my will, thine will be done…
Jane resists, and grabs her crucifix so hard that it pierces her skin (a pseudo-stigmata). The crucifix doesn't work and it drops on the floor in a small pool of her own blood. However, she begins to resist his control after that.
In the real world, there have been attempted abductions and possessions, where the abductee shouted the name of Jesus and the "aliens" departed, just like demons, because that is what they were.
Later, Jane calls Sister Maura and asks “Does God love us? … only us? Because Genesis says that we’re his supreme creation …"
Sr. Maura repeats the ET promoter trope, "ON EARTH, Genesis says that we are God’s supreme creation ON EARTH… Why would he make such a vast universe yet save it only for us?”
Jane asks, “If you found out we weren’t alone... would that frighten you?”
Sister Maura says “No. Why should it?”
Conspicuously absent from the nun's discourse are Jesus' words "I am The Way, the Life and the Truth, no one comes to the Father except through me." (Jn 14:6) "Repent and be saved" (Mk 1:15).
Predictably, its only the villan who gives the only quotes by Jesus, later in the movie.
This is Spielberg's core message. The Church is fine for social cohesion and a personal feeling of safety, but it's not true. Extraterrestrials offer real truth and belonging. This is the clear antichrist message of this film; that we can be Catholics and believe in aliens, as long as we don't take God too seriously and realize he's a social construct invented by us OR if with think God is real, we believe he loves aliens too. Spielberg doesn't care which way Catholics lean, as long as we believe in aliens. That's the whole point of the movie. "Just believe in aliens."
This message is the opposite of the core truth that "Only Man bears His image" (Gen 1:26-27, 9:6, Jas 3:9), which is why God became man.
The movie ignores Catholic doctrine that God created the entire universe for man, 40 entrusted all of creation to humans.41 and there is no way to reconcile alien rational life with Catholicism.
There is lots of chasing. Daniel is caught and found my Margaret. They escape and are rescued by Hugo and the 12 who take them to a warehouse, where Hugo reconstructs Margaret's childhood home. This triggers a flashback of when Daniel and Margaret are abducted (described above). Noah, the bad guy, bilocates across from the good guy, Hugo, to try to talk him out of this process that will lead to disclosure. Hugo explains to Noah that aliens told him that:
... empathy … [is] the foremost evolutionary advantage. In fact, the core of animate existence. A rejection of this understanding is leading us to our extinction [via nuclear war] … In Vivo 17 [a captured alien] is nearer to God, Noah, than you or I. You don't need to fear them.
Apparently, the aliens have never heard about "toxic" empathy that ignores the truth, such as "empathetically" supporting a child for a gender transition operation.
Hugo convinces Margaret to enter into the abduction experience by saying,
You have the Gift. … Margaret, you'll know EVERYTHING. More than what was ever humanly possible... You can direct [the powerful alien artifact] ... It’ll be an instrument of your will. But you must give yourself over to it.”
So instead of "thy will be done" we are to give our will over to the alien experience. It promises knowledge of everything, reminiscent of satan's dialog with Eve in the Garden. "Your eyes will be opened and you will be like God (Gen 3:4)."
Real life alien abduction testimonies confirm long term negative effects on the lives of people who have had them, such as broken marriages, estranged children, financial ruin, addiction, depression, and suicide. Aliens (demons) are anything but empathetic to humans who have given themselves over to belief in them.
Daniel and Margaret eventually make it to the television studio, Noah sits down and gets a pat on the shoulder by Hugo. They bring a disabled alien in a wheelchair, to elicit sympathy for aliens, similar to the movie ET. Korean soldiers watch the broadcast on their phones (as if they would have access to american media). It is assumed they stop fighting and the aliens herold in an era of peace.
The alien makes clicks noises in Daniel's ear, and he translates it for Margaret who gets onscreen. She "LISTEN." The movie ends.
This is exactly what Catholics should not do. We should not "listen" to arguments for aliens. We should reject any "openness" to them, the way Eve should have rejected "listening" to the serpent.
By David MacDonald, with bits from Daniel O'Connor's brilliant YouTube review of Disclosure Day.
References
- 1 https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/steven-spielberg-disclosure-day-ufos-aliens-truth-video/