Adaptation of a 1991 short story by Terry Bisson, that can be read here. This short won the Grand Prize at the Seattle Science Fiction Museum’s film festival.
edit: There are other adaptations:
- Directed by Jeff Frumess (2010). IMDb
- Directed by Safiyya Lea (2015). IMDb
- Directed by Jason Housecroft (2017) on Amazon Prime. IMDb
- Directed by Thomas Soper (uploaded 2018)
I don’t want to jinx it but it’s on 22 upvoted and no downvotes.
Perhaps it doesn’t meet (sorry) their mental picture when they read the story? There’s definite potential for far more alien narrators observing humanity in all its meaty ways.