John Lewis Xmas Alien Ad

 

Supermarket Christmas TV adverts over the last few years have become a cultural phenomenon. They are high budget and very technically sophisticated; essentially mini-feature films that tell stories, often with attempts at laughter and tears. They are supposed to spread Christmas cheer and usually appear in early November, when people are first starting to plan ahead for the festive season. They have been accused of being propaganda, loaded with politically correct, upsetting or fearful themes, for example: https://summit.news/2020/12/11/nhs-commercial-terrifies-children-by-showing-santa-dying-of-covid/. This year's John Lewis advert is the most remarkable I have ever seen. I really didn't expect this, but maybe I should have. It is about aliens and UFO's. This advert tells the story of a young boy who is riding on a bus one day just before Christmas when he sees something fly across the sky leaving a trail of multicoloured smoke, like an aircraft in distress. He gets off the bus and runs to the location of the crash in secluded woodland and sees that it is an extraterrestrial spacecraft. Standing on top of the wreck is a young female Nordic alien. He flees in terror and returns home, but can't stop thinking about what he has just witnessed. He goes back to the crash site and approaches the alien girl. He introduces her to some of the features of Christmastime on planet earth, like tree lights, mince pies and snowball fighting. When he goes back to the site a third time he sees that the ET female has repaired her damaged spacecraft and it is capable of flight. The boy realizes to his dismay that his new friend has to leave the earth. Then, in a scene reminiscent of the film ET- the Extraterrestrial, he gives her a present and she kisses him. The boy watches the girl's spaceship soar away into the sky with tearful eyes. The score of the short is a mellow cover of Philip Oakey and Giorgio Moroder's Together in Electric Dreams. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDowvVdk-n0. This touching and absorbing little tale could probably only have been made in this post-2017 world. It may well be a type of propaganda. Fiction intended to promote certain serious and real world ideas in the consumers' brains often takes the form of a poignant narrative with emotionally charged imagery. The person on social media who made me aware of this thinks it might be another of the many current productions that are preparing humanity for the upheaval of realizing that we are not alone. Disclosure with a capital D? Possibly. The fact that it features children is especially significant. It reminds me of the UNICEF video I posted about before, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2020/05/unicefs-alien-child.html. The path to Disclosure may lie through the human heart instead of our head; young hearts and minds in particular.
See here for background: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.