The most noticeable thing about this movie is how its filmed from the perspective of a characters camera. So you experience the chaos and panic of the characters and citizens, very similar to footage of 9/11 that was taken from citizens' camera phones. In those videos we see chaos and panic, people running and screaming, so if some supernatural event were to occur that would release some mysterious monster on the good citizens of really any city in the world, I'd be willing to bet that it would be recorded on a good number of iPhones and Androids.
The part where the head of the Statue of Liberty lands in the street and we see everyone stopping to take a photo, my first thought was to laugh and think "yeah ok, your life is in danger, your city is being destroyed and you need to stop and take a photo" but the reality is that thats probably exactly what would happen. Which makes you question what the real threat is in the movie, Is it this monstrous creature? Or is it society's obsession of recording every moment so much so that we can't focus on what's going on around us because we have to snap a picture for instagram.
Which leads me to my next observation of how we never get a clear image of the monster. Which leaves it up to the audience to imagine whatever deformed creature is the most frightening to the individual viewer. It also creates an eery sense of uncertainty. because humanity will always fear the unknown and what we don't understand more than anything.
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