I actually liked the element that we were technologically advanced but humbled by the fact that we were all going to die if the soil was ruined. And they also didn’t go deep into why, just basically suggesting it was possible (unless I’m remembering the movie wrong I didn’t remember much explanation). But there were plenty of other things I had issues with. That one wasn’t prominent for me, especially since it was just a reality to set the stage and not part of the puzzle of the film itself.
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Apart from that, I found the other plot devices to be very unsubtle and heavy-handed. Everything had an explanation. There just wasn’t much left to the imagination.