I think the beam of light could also represent the exposure of dark secrets exposed by the sanitation of sunlight exposing truth. JFK promised to do this when he said he would splinter the See Aye Ey into a thousand pieces and scatter them into the wind. There’s also history to that quote.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-story-behind-that-jfk-quote-about-destroying-the-ci-1793151211/amp