On the subject of Disclosure

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Have you heard of Godwin's Law? It’s a hilarious reflection of state of online discussions. Formulated by attorney Mike Godwin in 1990, it states that as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Adolf Hitler approaches one.

Well… we won’t be discussing any of that nonsense here. But I did notice an interesting parallel. You see… if you've ever had a conversation with me, you'd know very well that the longer you talk to me, the higher the probability of me bringing up UFOs (or that fancy new word UAP).

And so, when Steven Spielberg announced Disclosure Day, I wasn’t going to let that one pass by. I don’t watch movies as often as I once used to; I want to reserve all my energy and time for the truly valuable ones (I know I sound a bit self-important here… but when you get to my age, you’ll see.).

And in that aspect Disclosure Day was phenomenal.

Only Spielberg could call a film “Disclosure Day” and make a movie about EXACTLY that. In essence it’s a movie that leads up to the events of Disclosure Day.

I am not going to spoil the movie for you here. That wouldn’t be so nice now, is it?

But I will tell you this much. You know how you learnt a recipe of a particularly delicious dish from your mother… and yet no matter how many times you make it with the exact same recipe, it never seems right. Like it is always missing something?

That’s what Spielberg feels like. Like when your mother whips up that dish. He’s cooked something delicious here… and it shows. There’s something about the colour, or the way scenes transition, or the pacing, or the dialogue that has an indescribable quality to it.

Honestly, I went into one of his earlier movies “Ready Player One” fully expecting to hate it, since it’s not my genre, and it blew me away. That is Spielberg for you.

I’d say…go watch if for Emily Blunt or Colman Domingo.

YET… YET… YET… there’s something missing from the movie, and I suspect not everyone will agree with me on this. It felt a bit like "Bait-and-Switch." You’ll know when you see it. 😊

That being said, there won’t be any bait and switch in my upcoming story. Last month, I submitted the manuscript of “The Zero Point” to my publisher. The Zero Point combines the short story “Phenomenon” from my anthology “LIM” and completes the story-arc of the main character “Nahushah Shukla”.

If you’ve read the story, then in this book you will learn exactly who his Watchers are.

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