Starting of as a slow, contemplative exploration of a small, rural community faced with an ecological disruption at the hands of an ill-planned and predatory development project, Hamaguchi's Evil Does Not Exist is tense, layered and never overexplains itself.
Suggestive, beautifully shot imagery and sparse dialogue hints at the relation between humans and nature, rural communities and city alienation, capitalism and ecological disruption, ... but all of these themes take a step back for a powerful, divisive ending that hits like a brick.
(There's also something to be said about the juxtaposition between the growing practice of urbanites settling for rural communities -- 田園回帰 -- and glamping, in which the same desire to 'escape' or 'return' is a commodified, temporary experience for an affluent population)