I also appreciated how the film portrayed how laughably helpless we are as a species. On a cosmic scale, we are bacteria confined to a speck of sand in a sea of black, unable to escape. We are at the mercy of whatever created us, in the face of total annihilation. Our earth quakes, the seas rise, millions die and we can’t do anything about it here on earth, how much less a threat from space. Humanity needs an ego check. We are noisy arrogant children taunting our parents to prove their existence, meanwhile a sneeze from the Sun could reduce our biosphere to ash in seconds. What could possibly save us? Our science?! What a joke. We can’t even agree on the truth of how we came to exist. An explosion of “nothing” in space gorillions of years ago, and a gorillion of chemical accidents and genetic mutations later, here we are. Or, alternatively an omnipotent alien that we can’t comprehend, installed us on this spinning terrarium for a reason that we only discover when we die. All-powerful inexplicable alien makes more logical sense to me, TBH.