This film brilliantly uses the trope of "fear of the monster" in a science fiction life-or-death drama setting to interrogate the "fear of the other" (the alien, the outsider, the stranger, the immigrant). It doesn't approach this indirectly as a sub-text, but openly, head-on. This is cleverly woven in as an integral plot point. The characters are naturalistically portrayed, making them quite believable. This is very moot in contemporary European countries, for instance, in this case, Sweden, where the general public is being fed anti-migrant, anti-asylum seeker, anti-refugee rhetoric by right wing political pressure groups, including various governments, and their media outlets. Highly recommended.
Review of Operation Ragnarok
