It’s a nightmarish statement on how a police state is formed under the pretext of security. Hence the very ominous B&W helicopter images of cops with K-9s chasing people who are allegedly criminal

We see images of streets, houses, the exteriors of a gas station, where the film camera observes as if surveilling those empty spaces supplemented by the just as terrifying sounds of a police radio

The film came out in 2002. One year after 9/11 when the patriot act was implemented, in which the American people’s basic civil liberties were robbed using the fear of terrorism as an excuse. Same thing happened under Covid-19, the difference being about the fear of a virus.

Social commentary or prediction programming? Hard to tell