Disclosure Day is Steven Spielberg trying to lovingly correct the man-children he has created, before it’s too late. It’s the anti-Noah’s Ark, claiming truth can be known to all through beauty, and the empathy you need to create it.
Noah’s Ark was a myth that told some people that everyone was damnable to hell for the crime of existing outside our families. These are the people that run our country. When I make this claim, will the gut reaction from reactionaries be “well, are you saying God SHOULDN’T have killed an entire planet full of evil people? Are you saying they SHOULDN’T like those fables?” Would they even question why that was gut reaction, or why we’re even telling fables like that to begin with?
This angry, petulant myth has created man-children who righteously cry at images of Hulk Hogan endorsing the leader of the free world, as well as cry with righteous fury that the images of their childhood (Star Wars, for instance) are being desecrated. When you claim the plot holes in the ethereal “Star Wars narrative” matter more than the series of images, series of indescribable light and shadow of that we call cinema (and sometimes, for two hours, if you have the right images, we’ll call that cinema “Star Wars”) they are denying a fundamental factor of their actual existence. They are denying the actual science of light and shadow that created their experience in favor of mythology. Jesus did say that in the end days they would be turned to fables, but don’t worry, reactionaries, he probably didn’t mean yours.
In Disclosure Day, Spielberg is screaming with loving, fatherly tears at the reactionaries that he raised. Through Koepp and Colman Domingo, Spielberg is screaming at these silly heads in their cognitive dissonance, living in the belief that your childhood nostalgia is all that mattered, yet claim they felt nothing while experiencing it. They claim there was no experience at all when Luke Skywalker first ignited his lightsaber, and expect you believe they are telling the truth. He is screaming at them that their childhood mattered, that it happened, that the beauty of the images they grew up on MEANT SOMETHING TO THEM PERSONALLY, AND YOU CAN’T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM PEOPLE, LEAST OF ALL YOURSELF. Because if the veneration of Lord Of The Rings from Christian nationalists post 9/11 tells us anything, it’s that they saw Noah’s Ark as a myth that told us that only our childhood myths matter, and you get to destroy anyone that disagrees with that, and this is the anger that makes you a man. This is Steven Spielberg and David Koepp pleading to the Noahs of the world.
“I’m not afraid of them. I’m afraid of us. The entire reason WARDEX exists is because of our knowledge, CERTAIN that the human race cannot accept what we know. That truth will upend all established order, all across the entire world, the ARCHIVE Kilner stole is a VIRUS against which the world has ZERO immunity. I have spent the last 35 years protecting-“
“Your own wealth and power, that’s all you’ve been protecting.
Noah!
NOAH!
There is an essential need in all of us to believe, and an equal need to be believed. You violated EVERY standard of evidence. You’ve infantilized anyone who only wanted to understand what they’d witnessed. You’ve brutally stifled their questions, shouted them down. Ridiculed them and shamed, and overridden them for the crime of SIMPLY BEING ASTONISHED. We believe the believers, and then deny them the chance to believe them to. But people keep wondering, encountering the unknown, telling others about their experiences, they are STARVED FOR THE TRUTH. This 79 year terror campaign of obfuscation, lies, and cover up, HAS TO END.”
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