King Darkness
Super Freak
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I'm guessing that people who are experiencing spiritual identification with this fictional planet have a major issue with being human, which means they are at odds with their own identities. The movie is providing them with a form of psychological release from what they hate most: themselves. When the film ends, they are left with nothing but the same sad life they had before, as well as a powerful presentation of the suggestion that they don't have to accept their fate if they help to save their own planet, i.e. that they are right to feel bad, but there is hope to be like their adopted species by obeying ecologically motivated injunctions to submit to, and promote, any of a thousand different privations concocted by those who consider themselves to be the high clergy of the movement.
It's pretty disturbing.
Those are also the people that eventually turn into,or already are, serial killers.