One of their most valuable qualities, from
a strictly human perspective, is that they hint at how the ocean would look if we invested in its resilience instead of plundering its depths,» Eilperin writes.
Unlike many lesser directors would have in his shoes, Jonathon Glazer keeps
strictly with the alien's
perspective, a decision which seems initially crude and even potentially sadistic and yet as the story (or lack thereof) evolves one can not help but recognize a series of uncomfortable tropes in
human behaviour that for better or worse might define us as a species, under the gaze of an alien fly - on - the - wall.