The day before watching the movie, I watched the original overnight. After watching it, I was very emotional. I was looking forward to watching the movie, but I found that this expectation was greatly reduced. There are three parts of "Lost Southern Land". "Annihilation" is the first part. The first part focuses on digging pits. Many pits are dug, and they all need to be filled slowly in the second and third parts. To put it another way, "Annihilation" is second in the advancement of the plot, and the most important thing is to explain the background and create an "atmosphere." Hitchcock said: The most terrifying thing is not the moment the bomb exploded, but the atmosphere where everyone looked at each other and waited for the bomb to explode. As an ordinary reader who is not a fan of science fiction, I understand that "The Legacy" surpassed the "Three-Body" to win the Nebula Award because of its rendering of this weird, fearful and mysterious atmosphere. More accurately, "The Legacy" is a strange novel. . However, the novel belongs to the novel. When a story lacking drama conflict is put on the screen, it is still quite difficult to attract the audience to distract the audience in more than two hours. Of course, on the other hand, I am looking forward to seeing the X Secret Realm, the flowing moss text in the underground tower, and the glowing Natalie Portman. The film finally made drastic changes to the original work (it is said that the director admitted that he did not finish reading the original...orz). In all fairness, I'm really fortunate that the movie has made this adaptation. At least the pits are basically filled in. A movie can justify itself, and it will not make you look like what the f** when you start to pull subtitles at the end. I think the director did nothing other than seduce you to watch the sequel. Let’s put it this way, the plot of the “Annihilation” novel can be summed up in a few sentences: the biologist enters the X mystery for his husband, and finds the mobile moss creature (creeper) writing chicken soup in the underground tower, and the entire underground tower is a living body. In order to decipher, the biologist went to the lighthouse again, and found that there were photos of the former lighthouse administrator and the diary of the scientific expedition team members in the lighthouse. Oh, and the psychologist leader was a bitch, over! But there are too many holes left, what is the underground tower? What is a creeper? What is the meaning of the word "chicken soup"? What is the connection with the lighthouse keeper? What is recorded in the diary? Why does the returning husband lose his memory? Why is the psychologist leader so sinister and vicious? Basically, no pit was filled. If the movie is faithful to the original and leaves these issues to the sequel, I think the audience can tear down the movie theater. Interested in reading the second and third parts of the novel, I found that the brain hole was too big to contain it. In contrast, the first one didn't explain anything except to put out smoke and bombs. I think the film began to explain the mechanism of X Mystery is still good. The reflection between DNA was revealed as the five scientific expedition team members deepened. The creatures in the X Secret Realm will generate bizarre hybrid species through the mutual mapping of DNA, such as crocodiles with shark teeth, sika deer with plum blossoms on their heads, human-shaped plants, and flowers with lilies and roses on the same plant. , A grizzly bear that killed a person and then made a human voice. . . So when the physicist found out that his arm began to grow vines, his spirit began to collapse. If the movie digs deeper according to this routine, the story logic may be more continuous and consistent. But later, the movie was brought back to the original without any preconditions. The second and third parts of the original explain that the most important mechanism of X Mystery is the cloning and copying of organisms. That's why the director designed Kane in the lighthouse to set himself on fire, and then another Kane appeared. Lena stared at the white light and copied a scene where Lena "dancing modern dance together". The director's tribute to the original work made the audience feel very abrupt. In addition, the reflection of DNA is really in-depth in the film, even the reflection between organisms. Why does the frozen sea water of non-living organisms also reflect the DNA of the tree, giving the impression of beach ice sculptures? The film treats the disappearance of five female scientific expedition members into the rhythm of "No Survival", which is also a useful adaptation of the original work. The conflicts of the players in the original work are more of human nature, to be more precise, it is the little gloom of the psychologist. The linguist retreated before entering the X Secret Realm. The anthropologist was sacrificed by the psychologist as a shield against the monster in the underground tower. The prospector was separated by the psychologist and Lena had a gap. After Lena mutated, Lena deliberately shot. Lena was shot and killed by Lena. The plot of the original book is justified because it is explained later that the psychologist leader is the leader of the extraterrestrial creatures in the X Secret Realm, and she hopes to bring a steady stream of scientific expedition team members to sacrifice. But the movie can’t tell you so much, so it treats the disappearance of the other team members as an attack by other creatures in the secret realm. One was bitten by a mutant grizzly in the wild, the other was attacked by a grizzly in a mental breakdown at a dilapidated hotel, and the other found himself being attacked by a grizzly. The vine possessed himself and was unlovable, and then the leader was annihilated by the white light directly in the underground tower, leaving only the protagonist with a shining halo, Lena fighting alone in the lighthouse. At least the scene is enriched in this way, and it brings different stimulation to the audience's senses. Otherwise, according to the original work, it is an underground tower with only moss shining green and flowing constantly, which is unavoidable to be boring. In all fairness, the film's presentation of the secret scenery of X is still very artistic. The glazed illusion of sunlight, the lush shade of the trees, the human body as the entrance to the hole in the hole, and the pair of modern dances between LenaA and the mirror LenaB gave me the illusion of a black swan reappearing. It is a film adapted with heart, which makes up for the shortcomings of the novel's inadequate plot. As for the audience's viewing experience, the wise can see it.
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