As once being an anthropology major, because I loved the subject not because I was studying to be rich, this movie is as good of a film about man that any can get in fictional form. Slow? Of course, our ideas and cultures are lagging compared to what could have possibly been done by superior creatures with intimate knowledge of the universe, which may be who we are in the future- ever working at picking up the pace through time travel and space manipulation. The big picture; like how many scenes were shot with hardly a close up to anything or anybody. Not much action or acting? Great, then the movie did it’s job with a tale such as this one- seen and made through rectangles and more rectangles….