Are we alone in the universe? Legendary director Steven Spielberg will provide his answer when his much-anticipated film Disclosure Day opens on June 12th. The official trailer delivers tantalizing hints while also providing vivid illustrations of key SAT vocabulary words. Let’s take a look!
CATALYST – The narrative begins with a startling event during a routine broadcast. A Kansas City meteorologist is suddenly overcome by an otherworldly entity, delivering a bizarre, clicking message in an unintelligible alien tongue. This terrifying display on live television functions as a CATALYST or precipitating event that shatters the public’s collective sense of normalcy and plunges the globe into a state of acute panic.
UNCANNY – While humanity reels from the broadcast, an ordinary man named Damiel Kellner discovers he possesses an UNCANNY or beyond what is normal ability to translate the strange alien language. Recognizing the momentous nature of the message, Daniel resolves to provide a full, transparent disclosure to everyone on Earth.
CLANDESTINE – Daniel’s quest for truth faces a formidable adversary in a high-ranking black ops agent. Acting on behalf of a CLANDESTINE or secret government agency that has kept extraterrestrial life a closely guarded secret for decades, the sinister operative will do anything to suppress the truth.
ANOMALIES – The trailer contains a number of strange environmental ANOMALIES or deviations from what is normal. Sentient wildlife and massive crop circles suggest that the very fabric of human reality has been already infiltrated and altered by a hidden intelligence.
IRREVOCABLE – Daniel’s mission builds toward an IRREVOCABLE or unalterable conclusion. The ominous warning, “If you do this then there is no undoing it,” underscores the film’s tense and compelling message that “When the time is right, everything will become clear.”
CATALYST – a person or thing that precipitates an event
UNCANNY – an ability that is beyond what is normal
CLANDESTINE – secret; hidden
ANOMALY – a deviation from what is normal or expected
IRREVOCABLE – can’t be changed or altered