I did enjoy this and given the context of the director think it is a valiant work, but do have some gripes with it:

The biggest negative to me was the messaging of humanism and "we're better than them" given the immediate implications this would have on both their and their families lives.

The ending scene is strong, sure, but it would have made more impact to me if there was any actual ambiguity left by the end. Partly due to the clumsy switching between situational comedy and drama, but I also did not care much for how caricaturesque most characters were.