Dan Farah

well the person telling that story didn't didn't the previous part of the film establish their credibility and they'd say yeah yeah it did for sure 100 and i'd be like then why do you find it hard to believe what they're saying in this scene and it was just something about these people sharing their own personal experience that happened in their own home that becomes a bridge too far for people yeah whereas that same intelligence official saying what they learned when investigating

And what they uncovered is totally digestible to the audience.

So I just decided to take that scene out.

This is a long story short.

Yeah, the normies aren't ready for you.

Exactly.

And I don't know what that is.

I don't know what part of human psychology makes that a bridge too far for people.

One of the interesting things in the film is Rubio and Clapper, two guys we talked about today, they both say in the film,

they talk about how it's difficult for people to wrap their head around something they haven't personally experienced or prepare themselves for something they haven't experienced.

It's something in the human psyche that does that.

And that's actually something that they are concerned about.

They are concerned that collectively, we as a nation,

won't properly prepare for what's happening right now and put the right brain power towards it because we haven't experienced it yet.

And Rubio makes points about there being several

examples of that blowing up in our face like we never imagined terrorists would fly you know come to the the homeland and learn to fly commercial airplanes and use it against us in a terror stack yeah until they did and we never you know imagined the japanese would be able to you know strike us at pearl harbor with their missiles and get their missiles through the straits but until they did um and so there's histories full of these examples of of of us not preparing for or wrapping our head around

things we haven't experienced yet.

And then sometimes that leads to a strategic surprise that as he says in the film could change the course of human history.

And so there's this, it is interesting.

And I found it really informative when I was doing these test screenings of earlier cuts, where that bridge is for people, where it just goes a bridge too far.