The so-called "civilized people" here are not civilized at all, even more barbaric than the primitive family. They wear the cloak of civilization, but they actually became "civilized" by plundering the water source of the aborigines (monkeys in the movie), which is exactly the same as the robber culture in the West.
Ironically, the movie finally created an imaginary enemy, a "monster" that did not exist in reality, and let these "civilized people" save the monkeys, and finally lived happily together, wow, what a great savior
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