Colonialist regression; forceful infection. Westernized, primitive society becomes the unwitting norm, the putrid status quo. But here, the colonizers become the colonized, the entomologists become the insects.

From an American, ignorant standpoint, (my own) it appears as though the society our protagonist/antagonist stumbles upon is rooted in the jejune; it contains numerous traits of civilizations from bygone decades - we view it as primitive. The film begs the question of whether that perceived regression truly lies within the societies of…