Crafty old Steven Spielberg. In his latest film, Disclosure Day, the great director and inventor of the summer blockbuster has taken his well-known obsession with space aliens and suchlike fauna and used it to misdirect his audience to look past the movie’s real purpose while subliminally absorbing it. He means to get inside the audience’s heads through the power of empathy exactly as the movie’s own two “experiencer” heroes are alleged to do, at will, with anyone they meet who may be useful to them.
What these experiencers, Danny (Josh O’Connor) and Margaret (Emily Blunt), are said to experience is the ultimate secret of the universe, first confided to them by the kindly aliens who kidnapped them in childhood and performed some kind of operation on their left eyes. The secret is that empathy is not only our greatest evolutionary advantage but also, when accompanied by a TV remote-sized black box full of (presumably) totally cool hi-tech stuff, a powerful tool to dominate anyone and anything, or even make you invisible to your enemies.
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