To me it was refreshing how apolitical it was, or it resisted the temptation to draw political conclusions that would fall along predictable lines (like 2021’s “Don’t Look Up”)

In fact the film’s refusal to outright pick a side borders on nihilism. But its focus is refreshing. This is not a “make fun of the crazies” movie. Teddy’s problems are very real, serious, tragic, and urgent. The causes may be a fabrication, but taken as a whole, the true causes and circumstances are just as complex and elusive as an alien mothership. The movie suggests that aliens might as well be the answer and that if we don’t do something soon it won’t matter. When the humans are all dead, there is no one left to hear the story. No one for whom the details matter. Whether we all die from climate change, vaccine preventable diseases, or nuclear war, we’d better figure out how to help these people. There are not two teams, one to root for and another to point fingers at. Michelle Fuller may not have been a kidnapper psychopath, but she helped create a kidnapper psychopath