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1. You mean "retroactively," not "retrospectively."
2. All the things you named as not being themes are at least literary devices, and the parallels that exist between Riko's party and the ganja squadron are purposeful inclusions. If they're not themes, there at least exists some terminology for what they are, and I'd argue that they *are* themes within the context of the village arc.
3. It wasn't just cannibalism for the purpose of survival. It was eating a living infant thing born from an egg. One has to deliberately overlook the parallels inbirder not to see them.
4. It wasn't just shit. It was shit as a THREAT through dehydration, in a context wherein Riko's mentor flat-out explains the exact mechanism of death that's about to befall the Ganja squad in the flashback. Riko's mentor explained what was about to happen to characters in a flashback. That was behond purposeful. Come on. If it wasn't foreshadowing, it was at least on-purpose, and it was something that there must exist a term for.
I really dig these threads and I don't want to be mean to a fellow MIA fan, but this is legit the first time I would actually use the term "media illiteracy" to describe a take about this series.