This film questions the role of appearance in identity, specifically in the appearance of angels. The evacuation team fancies themselves as angels. They speak about how they are delivering to these people a new life, by way of giving them money for moving to a new place. With their wings in tote, they go around trying to change people's lives under this heavenly pretense. However, these men are not doing so under altruism, and like the chicken feather wings, they only fake the appearance the benevolent appearance that they wish others to see.
In seeing the actual angels, one would expect the same wings and other accoutrements that are usually associated with angels. Instead, however, they are a strange mix with their own individual appearances, including one with fake hands and eyeglasses, as well as another with a texan garb. With such unusual appearances themselves it seems hypocritical that they tell the boy that he is not an angel because of his own appearance. Does one who is not what they appear have the right to say that others are not what they claim because of appearances?
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