
A new trailer has dropped for
Disclosure Day two months after the initial teaser. It premiered at the Superbowl yesterday, see:
https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/12/disclosure-day.html.
This new trailer is shorter, one minute only. Despite that it contains a lot
more dialogue and information. It repeats a few shots from the earlier trailer,
but has mostly new ones. It begins again in a TV studio, but this time a
different newsreader is delivering a bulletin about the threat to release
"government material long shrouded in secrecy." At the same time you
see people doing something with a laptop and a new character played by Eve
Hewson says: "Are they... people!?" "No!" replies Josh
O'Connor's character. There is an action scene that reminds me very much of
another of Steven Spielberg's films, one of his early works, an excellent
psychological thriller called
Duel, see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhehxH25GGA.
A car crashes into a moving freight train. Then we hear the first words from
Colin Firth's character: "If you do this, there's no undoing it." This
is followed by a cryptic shot of Josh O Connor's and Emily Blunt's characters
with EEG transducers stuck to their heads, indicating that they're being
subjected to some kind of experiment or medical treatment. "There will be
no other day like tomorrow." says Colman Domingo's character and then we
see an amazing vista of some kind of ET spaceship flying through a cloudy sky. It
is either pushing through the clouds or is giving off smoke. It looks like a
classic saucer and there's a similar effect in
Independence Day. We hear the clicking alien language in the
background several times in the trailer. Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLv9WFOe6GU.
It is easy to interpret the message in the story. Somebody has got hold of some
secret information about aliens and plans to tell the world; what's known as "catastrophic
Disclosure". The action scenes, together with the police raid in the first
trailer, indicate that the government is trying to stop them. Since the last
trailer there has been some supposition that
Disclosure Day is set in the same universe as
Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It could be that some of the
characters are the same, maybe the children in the earlier film who have grown
up. It's easy to forget that
Close
Encounters does not end with any kind of public revelation. After the
aliens land by Devil's Tower they simply take off again with their human passengers
and the film just ends. If you were an ordinary person living in that universe
at the time all you would find out is that there had been a successful public
health operation in
Wyoming and
that the toxic gas had been cleaned up. Also many people have noticed that the
house in the first trailer looks exactly like Jillian and Barry's house,
although the former is presumably just scenery because a car crashes right
through it. There's a rumour that
CE3
is going to be re-released in cinemas as a prelude to the
Disclosure Day premier. If so I'll make a weekend of it! I predict
that we're all going to be disappointed by
Disclosure
Day, not because it's going to be a bad movie, but because our hopes for it
are so high. We often judge works of art by measuring them against our
expectations. This is why the
Star Wars
prequels and
The Matrix sequels had
such lukewarm reviews. When I watch Spielberg's new film I will try to do so
without those biases so I can simply enjoy it for what it is.
See here for
background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.