It's all directed by Roland Emmerich, the man who envisioned the end of the
world by
aliens in Independence Day and man - made climate change in The Day After Tomorrow, but the destruction set
loose on humanity and the planet by those is nothing compared to this.
In the latter work, ants clustered
on a decomposing apple become a kind of microcosm, one that is differently explored in Born Better (2013) and
Loose Laces (2014), where the natural
world is pictured as both increasingly
alien and as the heart of our own evolving (or perhaps devolving) ecosystem.