A depth of human - animal connection most movies don't have the audacity to portray. Those who criticize the movie don't understand the weight of Wallace's psychological transformation from primate to pinniped, and the ramifications it has about the fragility of the human condition. Ultimately the film shows that man has and always will be, walrus on a deep primordial level, only being held by the savageness of the human brain desperately suppressing our true sense of walrusity into oblivion.