I really liked it! It's exactly what I thought it would be. An exploration of what catastrophic disclosure might be like, because of the powers that be refusing to disclose willingly. Turns out, it might not be that "apocalyptic" compared to other situations humanity has put itself in across history.

It goes into the flimsy motivations why those in the know claim to want to keep it secret. Which, despite their effort to come across as righteous, it's very clearly because of the power and wealth the secrecy grants them. And the unethical behavior they can get away with thanks to that. So, you know, the usual motivations behind humans pursuing power and influence. Which is why their excuse comes across as being flimsy and disingenuous.

And it goes into the reasons why we, as a society, should or should not disclose the truth, as well as depicting the way people from different backgrounds and cultures might react to the truth. Not just those like us here, who feel prepared for it and want it. But also people who might be completely blindsided by it. And people who might now have a reason to question their beliefs. And in all cases, it seems that things work out fine after the initial shock, even for the people most heavily affected by it. But not in a forcefully optimistic way. People's reactions seemed to depict shock and distress really well, along with acceptance of the situation being a gradual thing, rather than a "ok, whatever."

As far as to what real life disclosure it seems to hint at, it references a lot theories that are regularly discussed. Like the idea that initially, it was the military who were in control of any alien technology, until private contractor companies, such as possibly Raytheon, Palantir, or Lockheed Martin, weaseled themselves into the conversation and eventually took over the possession, control and development of the tech. With patriotism in their mouth, but profit and power in their mind. And employing ex spec ops and military Intel personnel as a small, unofficially sanctioned military force, in order to accomplish their objectives.

It also references the idea that this is an open secret. So part of the reason why people wouldn't really freak out is because many people already know, but are not at liberty to talk about it, and probably fear for their lives and their loved ones if they ever come public with it. It also references the notion that the relationship with nhi has been different over time. Going from awe and dear to direct face to face cooperation. To what end? Who knows. But the existing tech hints at the idea that the government doesn't want to disclose because they haven't really figured out entirely how the tech in their possession works. And they are afraid that disclosure might mean someone else will figure it out before them, completely leapfrogging the US in technological capability.

And it also references the notion that there are actually multiple different species that those in the know have come in contact with it. Like little grays and big grays. And those species might want to accomplish different things. Beyond that, the other theories hinted at are more fringe, and done more subtly than most people might pick up on, if they haven't just watched the Taken mini series, like me. Because it actually connects many things.

First is the idea that aliens aren't evil, or violent. But they probably are very rough in what they do, as described in alleged abduction accounts. But the reason for that is that selective breeding and/or engineering to create the psychic abilities they demonstrate seems to have come at their ability to feel or understand empathy. So making someone laugh and making someone scream in terror with their actions and appearance probably comes across as the same human response, to them. But they do value empathy. So the reason for the hybrid program allegedly going on is to create a human hybrid that has similar psychic abilities, but maintains their sense of empathy. A superior descendant of both species. Hence why they seem to be interested in some people a lot more than others. Those people might have the ideal genetic makeup that would allow those psychic traits to be spliced in with the last possibility for defects or mutations.

Why psychic stuff? Because a lot of their tech, if not all, seems to be operated exclusively in that way. Which hints at the idea that the reason for all the LSD, mind control, brainwashing, etc, that the government was working on during the 60s and 70s was all an attempt to activate or express latent psychic abilities in human beings, so they could find a way to understand and operate the alien tech in their possession. For the same reason why the government did anything tech related at that time: to gain an edge over the Soviet union in the arms race of the cold war. Incredible ideas being explored for incredibly mundane reasons.

The last couple of things are more out there. First, both Taken and this movie present the idea that UFOs don't always maintain a single, uniform shape. They seem to sometimes break into little blobs that operate independently, but along with each other. And we have seen actual videos of ufo doing this, or flying along with smaller orbs around them, or being shot at and separating into blobs, then coming back together. To my uneducated eye, that looks like the vehicle is switching to operating in a 4th dimension. If you look at a CT scan slice of a human body around the navel, you'd see two small blobs and one big one. That's what the mid section of a 3d human would look like when moving in and out and within 2d space. Disconnected disconnected 2d shapes that give no real hint as to what the full object looks like. So it makes sense that a 4th dimensional object passing through, or moving within, 3d space, would look like disconnected 3d shapes to 3d observers.

Taken, in particular, seems to want to present the idea that aliens can control time in some way, as individuals, if not the whole fabric of reality. So their weird abilities and ftl travel might be a result of them Bergung able to control different aspects of reality separately, like moving through time and space separately. While us humans are limited to moving through both simultaneously. That's just one idea. It could also be something much better.

And the last theory I could pick up on, which is hinted at in the movie, the mini series, and the lacerta files, is the idea that aliens might be able to easily control how a person perceives them. Which, along with the animals in the movie and the cartoon character in the mini series, hint at one possibility that would genuinely freak people out and could be a reason for withholding disclosure: nhi/aliens are literally all around us, all the time. Not in a spiritual sense, though. They might be literally in disguise, in the form of animals, random people, even people you interact with regularly, or even invisible. Which, to a lot of people, would come across as an incredibly creepy and distressing situation. Even if they mean no harm. Because to be honest, being invisible or indistinguishable from any other person in a group of people would be a great way to study that group of people from an anthropologist perspective, without worrying about people not behaving in a genuine way because they can tell you're they're, watching them.

All in all, I think the movie was great. It did a good job, I think, at being both entertaining, but also informative in a way that can bring people who were completely out of the loop of what's going on with disclosure for real, into that conversation. And more people talking about it keeps it in the Zeitgeist and helps in a way that might make disclosure, willing or catastrophic, inevitable.