Disclosure Day combines pseudo-science with pseudo-religion
It doesn't try to attack Catholicism, it tries to absorb it
Steven Spielberg, in a CBS interview, said it's a "core truth" that "we have been under observation and been interacted with." This inspired Close Encounters, E.T., and now "my science fiction summation movie, Disclosure Day". [1] He said "This is real." It seems he has been prepared for this moment since childood. He has become the protagonist from his first movie "Firelight", that he made at 18, where the lead convinces the world we're being visited by aliens.
Disclosure Day got mixed reviews, but that doesn't matter. The propaganda machine is in full swing and it will be a summer hit that has already dovetailed with the media and Government narrative about aliens. Some might say this is a coordinated roll out of the pseudo-religion of the antichrist. Disclosure Day doesn't try to attack Catholicism. Instead it tries to absorb Catholicism. Let's unravel the flashbacks and put the movie in chronological order. Spoiler alert!
The abduction
The aliens "shape-shift" to become animals. Ironically, this is similar to what satan did when he became a snake in The Garden (Gen 3). However, in the movie, the animals (aliens) are supposed to be the saviour, huh?
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 what the movie calls a "Hansel and Gretel" house. Unlike real life (demonic) child abduction experiences, Margaret voluntarily walks with the animals, except they tricked her. They were aliens.
Daniel, the other child abductee, meets Margaret for the first time. The children undergo an invasive procedure where they are given latent supernatural gifts and a life mission to be the bridge between humanity and the aliens. This is perhaps an ape of supernatural experiences of Catholic visionary children, who warn the world, such as at Fatima.
The movie portrays abduction differently than real life abduction experiences, which 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 animal. Perhaps that's the point.
It's strange that Spielberg calls the spaceship in the woods a Hansel & Gretel house. That classic fairy tale is about a cannibalistic witch who lures a girl and boy into a house in the woods made of bread, cake, and candy. It seems the devil can't help himself when he's behind a movie like this.
In a post-Epstein world, it seems pretty tone deaf for Spielberg to depict children being tricked into leaving their homes by disguised strangers who lead them into the woods, where they have a traumatic experience, and the stranger suppresses these childrens' memories. Given the nature of the movie, it's not surprising.
The villain, Noah, has the name of a Bible hero
Disclosure Day has a very WOKE concept of villain. Noah Scanlon (Colin Firth) is a middle aged straight white male, and a 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 tortured them). Sound familiar?
Daniel (Josh O'Connor) 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 created a similar character in Close Encounters, the lead UFOlogist, modeled after the famous ET promoter Jacques Vallee. In real life, both Mack and Vallee propagated anti-Christian views.
Hugo leads WARDEX employees, the "Quiet 12" whistle blowers (pseudo-apostles). He arranges a farmhouse in the country where Daniel and Jane go for safety.
Margaret clicks, Daniel interprets
In a separate plot, Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt), the other childhood abductee, is a 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 pseudo-tongues where one speaks the word of God (in this case the word of aliens), 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.
The subtle and not so subtle attempts to undermine doctrine
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. 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 rips her crucifix off her neck and clenches it 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. She jams a knife into the wound to shake her out of the control and begins to resist after that.
It's telling that there are many closeups of Margaret's necklace of a butterfly; yet Jane rips her crucifix necklace off, and it ends up on the ground in a pool of blood.
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 launches into ET promoter tropes, "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, it's only the villain who quotes Jesus.
This is Spielberg's core message, which is the religion of the antichrist. Realize that god is a social construct invented by us OR if we think God is real, believe He loves aliens too. Just don't believe what Jesus says about himself. 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 and created the entire universe for man,[2] entrusted all of creation to human,[3] and there is no way to reconcile alien rational life with Catholicism. The vastness of space is a way for us to see how much Jesus loves us.
Empathy - the "highest" good
There is lots of chasing. Daniel is caught, imprisoned, and found my Margaret. They escape and are rescued by Hugo and the 12 (disciples) 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, the villain who was willing to kill a few hours earlier, sits down passively. Hugo pats him on the shoulder. They bring out a disabled alien in a wheelchair, to elicit sympathy—similar to the ET movie. The show proliferates across CNN, FOX, ABC, BBC, etc.
The 79 year old Spielberg doesn't seem to understand that TV stations are obsolete and Daniel could have uploaded the videos to the Internet bypassing the entire plot line. It seems they are trying to restore the public's trust in mainstream media for the real disclosure.
Korean soldiers watch the broadcast on their phones (as if they would have media access). It is assumed they stop fighting and the aliens herald in an era of peace.
The alien makes clicks noises in Daniel's ear, and he translates it for Margaret who gets on screen. She says "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, CatholicBridge.com, with bits from Daniel O'Connor's brilliant YouTube review of Disclosure Day.