Disclosure Day, or…

who cares about North Koreans?

As Kharkiv cats we often think about our talents and beauty as something truly extraterrestrial. We can even go as far as to ask if we really belong to this miserable Earth we call home. Maybe, we would be much better off sitting on a spaceship on the bony lap of a blue big headed alien who uses clicks for language. Apparently, the venerable director Steven Spielberg is thinking about the exact same things.

For decades, Spielberg has been combining personal childhood trauma and the Roswell accident into various mixtures of fantastic and action movies. His new work, Disclosure Day, is no different.

As always, aliens are only interested in the US of A, on which vast lands they are desperately trying to park their vehicles. Perhaps, in the fear and excitement of meeting new life, the trauma of the first white settlers come comes through.

Of course, there is an evil power in the face of secret agency that is working with the US army and headed by an elderly Mr Darcy (sometimes he starts to look more like Slavoy Zizek which leads to even more questions).

Anyway, there is WW3 coming up between Americans, Russians and North Koreans (it is not clear who against who exactly, but it is quite clear in Mr Spielberg’s world there’s no Ukraine, meaning we lost and russia won, as per Spielberg). The giant North Korean concentration camps seen from outer space is of no concern to the heroes of the movie, however, because there are several aliens who have been experimented on in 1970s, and that’s much more urgent of an issue than the problems of Asians.

To not go into big spoilers, but simply referense the title of the film, one might guess that the disclosure day would come (in the end of the movie). And all the good people of the world (including russian soldiers in fur hats, who might or might not be partners of Americans) will learn from their phone screens and very much believe the existence of the three scrawny blue humanoids with heads reminding of our school teacher of russian literature.

No one would doubt the badly edited footage a single bit, because AI doesn’t exist. And “the world would change forever for everyone on our planet”.

Except for the millions of North Koreans who don’t have the internet and will continue going to the battle or dying in concentration camps unaware of the aliens. Business as usual.

Our Kharkiv cats advice: for anyone interested to study what is bothering the good old Hollywood and the first world societies in general, it will be a fascinating film. There will even be Catholics here. The camera work is as always impeccable. Rich colors, long shots and fantastic work with actors is as always there. It is, though at times highly irritating, still a high quality Western product. To be consumed at your own risk.