This Review Reveals Minor Details About the Plot.
If It Bleeds, It Leads.
Plot Overview
“Disclosure Day” involves two experiencers coming to
terms with their roles in modern life. Margaret
“Maggie” Fairchild (Emily Blunt) was traumatized
twenty years ago by the visitors (“They present as animals to
calm us”) whereupon she left her Parkinson's suffering
father in the lurch to become a novitiate at St. Clair of the Dawn Monastery. Its
mother superior, Sister Maura (Elizabeth Marvel) was of the persuasion
that the universe was too vast to be inhabited only by earthlings.
Jane remarks that, “Genesis says that we're His supreme
creation...” and Sister Maura responds, “Genesis says
we are God's supreme creation on Earth.” Actually
God created man in His own image, but Adam lost his stature when he
ate the apple that Eve gave him as she yielded to the deceit of the
devil snake. God promised to redeem mankind through the seed of the
woman, so the watchers came down from the heavens and mated with
earth women to try to corrupt her seed. God destroyed them &
the whole world in a flood except for Noah and his family who were
perfect in their generation.
Noah blessed
his two respectful sons but saddled his youngest Ham with servitude
to the others' lines for his mocking voyeurism. Ham's
firstborn son Cush's (Gen. 10:6), line settled in Africa.
Cush is Hebrew
meaning black. They provided slave fodder over which America's
Civil War was fought. Jane lost her belief in the
transcendence of God, so she quit the monastery and joined up
with a roving musician Jackson (Wyatt Russell.) Now at age 38 she
gets visited again by a bird-entity, a cardinal, that enables her
to speak unfamiliar languages. As a weather girl on KCXE–4 in
Kansas City, Missouri, her alien dialect comes to the attention of
secret pseudo government agency Ward–X charged with
investigating alien phenomena. Its chief Hugo Wakefield
(Colman Domingo) warns her of pursuit by men in black, so she takes
off following her intuition. She stays at the monastery temporarily
to elude the MIB.
The other contactee is Daniel Kellner (Josh O'Connor) whom the
visitors gifted with an innate understanding of mathematics.
He worked for the secret agency but absconded with a trove of their
files. He was unable to make the transfer at a crowded wrestling
match—mankind is ever violent—so he is stuck with the
goods for now. The men in black are unable to track him with their
alien technology that doesn't work on experiencers, but they are
able to track his girlfriend Jane (Eve Hewson) who becomes a
liability to him. The two experiencers attempt to get together to
formulate a plan as the MIB
are closing in, with the world on the brink of WW III, the
U.S. going to DEFCON 2.
Ideology
The world does not need another destabilizing factor, but in this movie it gets four of them along the lines of, (Prov. 30:21-23) “For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear: For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat; For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.” “A servant when he reigneth” is the Negro Hugo head of an agency that did bad stuff best kept from the public. He illustrates an old Chinese adage, as translated by Patrick Hanan:
If you don't want it known,“A fool when he is filled with meat” is a mad crowd looting a store for groceries.
You'd better not do it. (83)
“An
odious woman when she is married” is the difficult wife of a
traffic cop who takes out his marital frustration on Maggie by
causing her unnecessary delay when writing her out a speeding
ticket as she's about to be late to go on the air with her weather gig.
“An handmaid that is heir to
her mistress” is Maggie the new weather girl preempting the
seasoned news leads to broadcast her ad hoc story of coverups.
Production Values
“” (2026) was directed by Steven Spielberg. It was written by David Koepp and Steven Spielberg. It stars Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor and Colin Firth, with support from Eve Hewson, Colman Domingo and Wyatt Russell, all of them doing great.
MPA rated it PG–13 for action/violence, some bloody images and strong language. Spielberg's directing was first class as expected. It's a sci-fi film with limited science but lots of WTF! reactions. The chase scenes provide the action, archival footage shows us the mystery, and the aliens are suitably weird. The “animals” just stand there not acting like wild creatures. The worldwide audience collectively drop its jaws at what confronts it. Runtime is 2 hours 25 minutes—needed to accommodate two extended cat & mouse chases.
Review Conclusion w/a Christian's Recommendation
This film is lean on theology not even the nuns worthy of being taken seriously. I doubt it will change anybody's mind on anything. Society is not shown at its best, so why would space creatures even want to come here? Portrayed on the big screen they are still a mystery.
Movie Ratings
Action factor: Well done action flick. Suitability for Children: Suitable for children 13+ years with guidance. Special effects: Well done special effects. Video Occasion: Good for a Rainy Day. Suspense: Keeps you on the edge of your seat. Overall movie rating: Four stars out of five.
Works Cited
Scripture is quoted from the King James Version. Pub. 1611, rev. 1769. Software.
Drunken Noah scene depicted in a Civil War vintage woodcut, made after a drawing by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (German painter, 1794–1872) from his archive, published in 1877, and more recently by iStock.com/Getty Images. Used under license.
Hanan, Patrick, translator of “Marriage Destinies Rearranged,” compiled in an anthology of Stories From Ming China: Falling in Love. © 2006 University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006. Print.
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