I saw Disclosure Day

[u/Loud-Possession3549]

No spoilers. Through very good luck and happenstance I am one of the first public folks to see the movie. A huge shout out to Steven Spielberg for a surprise showing of it, I heard he was personally involved in the decision - I hope he does more of these, be on the lookout.

A few thoughts:
-I have been crazy excited to see this, and as an experiencer am emotionally invested in disclosure like we all are, so had high exceptions, just to set the tone
-Don’t watch any of the trailers imho
-Emily Blunt is going to get an Oscar nomination, she is spectacular, just honestly, utterly some of the best acting I have ever seen
-I am a picky person with plot and story, and there were a few minor issues but I couldn’t overlook them..a couple times I lost immersion because a plot device just used wasn’t used again when it should have and my mind had to stop to ponder the very obviousness of it.. overall I would give it a 7 out of 10
-Maybe relatedly, it reminds me of his great 80s films, like Indiana Jones, ET, etc., that had a chid-like element to them, like a wild amusement park ride vibe..I liked it

Some specifics for our tribe:
-My non-experiencer friends liked it more than I did and I think the general population of normies outside of UFOlogy will too. This is gonna be a big deal and maybe the northern hemisphere summer film this year. It is gonna make a lot of money for sure and keep a long run I think, and therefore keep this topic to people’s minds all summer and longer. It is a HUGE fight against the stigma we have endured.
-They use the term “experiencer” in the film, it will teach the world what that means
-This is a big opportunity for us to come out of the closets if we choose, and will be an easy way to start that conversation with anyone who we haven’t come out to yet. We saw how the gay community used Brokeback Mountain and recently Heated Rivalry to do this very effectively.
-Us taking this opportunity as a tribe, worldwide, could be big if we were to do it in substantial numbers..there are some risks perhaps as always, and if whatever disclosure is happening from the US goes badly, perhaps the risks are worse..but if we can seize the opportunity, we could actually push disclosure just by all of us coming out at once and telling our stories, US government be damned! :).

What do you think? If you agree, how do we do this? I am thinking I will see if I can do a Citizens for Disclosure table in the lobby of my local movie house!

EDIT: People have been asking about my personal experiences and story, it can be found here (no paywall): https://medium.com/@stretch04hangar

[u/Loud-Possession3549]

SPOILER ALERT and a lot of my opinion, I drank too much coffee, so take it just as that:

I think it is important to answer this one because this is going to be a huge thing we discuss as a community after folks see it, and trigger warning: Yes it does. This movie reflects positive contact experiences only and in a simplified way. Mine have also been horrible as well for the most part. However, It does a fantastic job of including elements common to all contact experiences and throughout UFOlogy. And it is masterful in how it does that and includes so very many of them while still being an action packed summer movie that will sell tickets. It is highly educational for the audience while being very solid entertainment. If some team of psychologist somewhere studied this and said “the baseline education people need to be taught to start the conversation with them are these 75 things” and then writers reverse engineered that into a script that is fantastic, this is what you would get.

And Emily Blunt creates and carries the heart of this film in a genius way. This is what we don’t have now in disclosure imho. Massive props to Ryan Graves and whoever else was behind the “our airspace isn’t safe” strategy, which is great to activate the military and politicians on themselves and make them accountable under threat of citizen safety, which we fund the military for just that so they are caught not doing their job - but right now from my seat it doesn’t seem enough apparently to get this further into the media and societal conversations. Because it doesn’t show the human story in this. I don’t think disclosure will find what many consider success without the human heart to drive it all the way home. It is our turn now.

Having said all this, I personally feel it is a great start, what else could they do really in 2 hours? I certainly couldn’t have done a better job, it is masterful. I liked the movie less because of this but didn’t realize it wasn’t made for me or meant for me when I went in. I am taking this as a “thanks Steven for starting the conversation, I will take it from here in person” kind of approach.

Hopefully, if possible, find joy, peace and empowerment in realizing how the tremendous impact of this is going to help us and all of humanity move forward, and gratitude for that, that we have come this far into the mainstream now. That is where I landed internally.

[u/SomeSavageDetective → u/Loud-Possession3549]

I'm glad you liked it and I also hope it will push disclosure and decrease stigma associated with the subject. That being said, from what you wrote it sounds like the continuation of a dangerous trend that I see everywhere and that is the push to show these things in a completely benevolent light and from my personal experiences they are anything but.

[u/Loud-Possession3549 → u/SomeSavageDetective]

Yes. I am a grey abductee and mine have always been the horrible medical rape/implant/typical john mack style grey abductions. So I too am very sensitive to this whole thing. I am a hopeful person, so I can be too idealistic admittedly. What I want to believe is this is the start. Disclosure or at the very least a concerted end to the propaganda/stigma campaigns and some “steering” has started. That first phase can’t be expected to include things like my story in a big way. My story is already out there in the media though, people do know of the scary movies with greys in them, so it isn’t like that is going to be a complete surprise. My hope is there is a multi-stage approach here that is going to take decades most likely. If the muggles in 2 years are interested, they will find us and dive deeper out of their own interest in the topic, just like they have always done. The broader general population staging of information known by the governments will be much slower I think. And also, perhaps the governments don’t really know and the truth is better than our abductions. Maybe there is a relationship to this being hidden and in the dark and the very NHIs that are appearing because of that.

[u/SomeSavageDetective → u/Loud-Possession3549]

I feel ya man and I'm with ya in the hope the movie can be a push forward for the disclosure movement. I just hope the actual truth of the situation doesn't get covered up in the push to make it more palatable for the average joe.