There is always a day when you think you have seen the worst anyone has ever delivered. And then you see something new. Something that beats the old record.
Something that is just, plain awful.
Just from a writer's point of view: what is the dramatic question? It is never posed. We just get a ham-fisted diatribe of how society is bad and nature is good--DESPITE the fact that in the first few minutes, the "protagonist" (I assume it is the strange creature, because the story never really gives the character any action-ability to propose that he/she/it is the protagonist) uses technology devised by societies: a bag with a clasp, book making materials, a magnifying glass.
I can only assume that the direction of this film was to say that we are headed back into an early 20th century dystopia of urbanization and wanton destruction of nature. However no real point was actually developed.
I've seen plenty of silent films that weave wonderful, poignant, and direct statements for the audience to follow without ever saying a word.
This film did not.
There are plot inconsistencies, such as at first when the "protagonist" gets an apartment in the city because (I actually can't say why, where did he live before?), there is running water. However, shortly later he never uses it again, preferring to go on top of a trash pit on top of the buildings (which doesn't make sense anyway) to collect water. Is this a statement on water refineries? Because I personally enjoy not getting Hep A when I drink my water. But, yes, you're right, society and tech are terrible destroyers and nothing I say will change that. But of course if its a cute animal trying to save a tree by taking a stick from it (which does not save the tree, mind), then technology is of course fine.
What is the message.
What is the question?
My only question is "Why?"
Why does the the artist think we need this message? What, in his job as the artist, he telling us? Art is a form of rhetoric, and this message is about as well formed as a first year philosophy major's argument on what's wrong with society.