surface, the story looks simple: husband Kane, who was sent to investigate the alien meteorite and disappeared and died, suddenly returns to his wife Lena. In her home, her personality changed drastically and she suddenly vomited blood. In order to find out the truth, her wife went to investigate the enchantment Area X again with a team of female scientists, and found that the extraterrestrial wisdom brought by meteorites has the ability to transform biological genes. After another setback, his wife escaped and was rescued, and finally reunited with the recovered husband.
However, it is obvious that the story cannot be so simple. There are too many questions worthy of dialectics and exploration. Stomach speculation and questions should also be a good post-watching activity. Since I have only finished reading the first time, there may be some statements and understandings that are not detailed and accurate enough. Please correct me if there are errors. The
most controversial issue may be whether the escaped Lena is true or not, whether it is true or not. Replicas of alien creatures?
Personally, I was more inclined to say that she was fake at first:
the copy of the "fake bronze man" in the lighthouse: the perfect imitation of the action-the bronze man is not inferior to Lena in agility, squeezing Lena on the door-the strength is definitely stronger than Lena and I don’t want her to run away and counterattack with punches-the attack intention can be detected, so even if the incendiary is ignited by some means to avoid the detection of the attack intention, there is no reason for the bronze man to let Lena go ( Doubtful) The
main reason was that he escaped and was rescued and was questioned. This Lena supposedly had seen the video in the lighthouse. It was known that her husband Kane was a fake, but she still asked to be with him instead of telling people to deal with or monitor the fake Kane.
There is another small detail but very important: at the beginning of the film Lena sits alone on the sofa and sobbs, the "dead husband" Kane returns and stands at the top of the stairs and hesitates. The angle of view in each shot exactly matches the layout of the building! The narrative of the story is portrayed by the saved Lena, and the house in the enchantment has become the original "home" in Lena's memory. Up to this point, no matter what we say that the layout structure of the "home" that should not have existed in the memory of the true Lena who has been living outside the barrier is fictitious. It was fabricated by alien wisdom using the private house in the barrier as a template. Or is this a hint given by the director, and none of them point to the conclusion-Lena is fake, or at least not the same Lena before, there will be supplementary
films that look like a team of investigators at first glance. There are various accidents in the investigation of foreign intelligence, but when I recall the plot carefully, there is another point that is very strange, that is, the neurotic blonde leader Dr. Ventress: After the members of the investigation team entered the enchantment and were affected by the transformation of alien creatures , Either the body has a weird mutation that can be seen by the naked eye (the glasses female is planted, the Lena body cell is abnormal) or the vest girl becomes irritable or the bento girl/vest girl is attacked by a beast, but this Ventress has never been attacked and has not shown The appearance changes. Even at the beginning, Lena had a brief memory loss and when everyone discovered that the equipment was malfunctioning, Ventress acted as if he was accustomed to or had been prepared for a long time.
Outside, although everyone has been overwhelmed with bitterness and miserable expression of determination, after watching the leftover videos and corpses of the intestines in the enchantment, and then when someone is killed, every time someone retreats, this Ventress is the only one who has no hesitation and no hesitation. The reason is only saying "I'm going to the lighthouse".
The group was too naive and unprepared for the strange things that happened in the enchantment. Whether it was equipped with combat effectiveness or psychologically, the distribution of personnel was also very unreasonable. Five scholars, scientists and half a soldier? Are all women?) This is probably because the organizer of the group deliberately concealed the danger, and Ventress as one of the leaders seems to have this right.
When only Lena Ventress left and separated and went to the lighthouse separately, Ventress, an untrained psychiatrist, went out of the rainforest and arrived at the lighthouse earlier than Lena, a trained ex-soldier? Combining all the above, and the large number of skeletons on the beach, it is really hard to believe that Ventress depends on luck.
Finally, in the cave below the lighthouse, Ventress exploded and turned into a biological photocopier, replicating Lena's bronze man. Then why is the Ventress that came first not copied? Why didn't she become one of the piles of bones on the beach outside?
Ventress is a manipulated traitor.
This makes me think of a known parasite on the earth. They will affect the host’s thoughts to a certain extent, making the host prefer to behave in the eyes of natural enemies or predators. Parasites travel between different regions to spread and multiply. Lena’s team happened to be right after the previous investigation team-the team that successfully returned but all died of cancer soon, and Ventress was already in charge at that time. All of the above is really hard to come to a conclusion.
Going up and thinking: Ventress had already been "infected" by some means when the previous group came back. Her task now is to bring people, scientists, knowledge and materials, and bring Lena into the enchantment. The
extraterrestrial wisdom may have been after Kane was sent into the enchantment (or even earlier) to learn that his wife Lena has a wealth of wealth. Biological knowledge (and the knowledge of other scientists) is exactly what it needs when it comes to the lack of information, so it arranges to copy Kane>send Kane home>reuse the Ventress faction to steal Kane and Lena>arouse Lena's suspicion and provide Investigating opportunities within easy reach> Successfully lure Lena in, trapping the prey and fishing on the line, which can explain why Lena's team is all scientists like this...not very scientific team method.
It also explained why Ventress went smoothly and finally exploded and turned into fireworks-her mission was completed
It also explains why the team that came back before died of cancer-those are also clones, but lack certain key information, which leads to failure to adapt to the outside world or their own genes, etc., which are not well organized, just like writing a program but out Like bugs, after all, cancer is simply a problem with its own system. After Lena came out, Kane recovered—it had all the knowledge it needed to perfectly replicate the genes of the earth species, and it also fixed the bugs in Kane.
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real people are replaced, The perfect copy of the alien ran out and began to spread, multiply and colonize until conquered. I thought this was the truth, the cause and effect of everything that happened in the film. But as the film's development and ending came to an abrupt end, I thought of another more open and deeper possibility: there is no such thing as true or false.
Lena is still the main body to some extent, she did escape, but was modified to some extent. Even the so-called fake Kane is not necessarily just a puppet copied by an alien.
Putting aside some prejudices, it may not be that the aliens in the horror movie are like those old-fashioned aliens taking over the earth. In "the thing" He is malicious to the creatures of the earth and wants to copy it instead of conquering it. The most direct reason that prompted me to have this idea was that in the DV video in the lighthouse, Kane seemed to collapse and commit suicide at the end. Kane expressed his wish to "visit Lena on my behalf" to the fake Kane!
This is so weird, it is because Kane has gone through too many unreasonable things in the jungle and finally collapsed when she was unconscious when she was dying and thought of her former lover, so she said this? Or did he know that Lena cheated on the old black to make him feel frustrated and broke the pot to participate in this ten-dead investigation team and feel resentment? Or..... Fake Kane is not "fake", but a kind of true Kane that is more perfect and reborn?
This has to let us go back to the earlier plot: the black bear that killed the bento girl learned her cry, but the behavior became both like a bear and some other unknown creature. First of all, "bear" Did not kill or eat meat, just bit off the throat (vocal cords); the eyes of the face seemed to be damaged but the movement did not look like poor eyesight, whether it was the tracking team member entering the house and poking his head out between the two or going around three A tied person walks and has been imitating a bento girl's cry for help. This is obviously not a behavior that a bear should have, and there is no physical movement in it to show that its vision is problematic due to facial defects-this is like the last lighthouse, there is no face and no eyes, but the action is accurate and smooth, and it has been creating strangeness. The image
of the crying "copper dummy" includes the two real sika deer that Lena met with perfectly coordinated movements. The last few words before the glasses girl turned into a plant were very detached and fairy-like, "I don't want to get involved anymore. Something’s gone"..... I just want to quietly be a plant
that has nothing to do with the world and no thoughts. All of this implies that what this foreign existence is doing is not only to change the appearance that we can see with the naked eye: tampering with the gene belt. Come beyond common sense fusion and mutation. What this foreign existence is really doing is more like: "fusion", from thought to language to behavior mode, the bear has a behavior that is not like a bear. The sika deer has completely consistent actions. The bronze man
has the ability to imitate human behavior and set barriers. All the barriers of electric wave communication, then the detection of brain wave communication within the barrier does not seem to be unexplainable. And the strange creatures brought about by tampering with genes may just be its side effects. It’s the mice in the experiment, including the large number of investigators who sacrificed before. After all, we can’t expect a foreign existence to understand the meaning of “life” from birth
to the end, DV The appearance of the false Kane shows that its technique has become more adept, and it can make works that are indistinguishable from real human beings. The only
words in the film can tell that the time between Kane's entry into the enchantment and reappearing in Lena's house is very long. When Kane may have penetrated the above point, he would question his life and existence before the fake Kane before dying, and finally left that sentence to visit Lena on my behalf. Perhaps in his understanding the fake Kane has perfectly copied his own self, which is a better self, and can replace himself.
At the beginning of this article, the bronze man who was suspicious of Lena held the incendiary bomb but let go of Lena. It is worth noting that the bronze man caught fire and did not take action to extinguish the fire. This shows that he is unfamiliar with the danger of fire, which means that the bronze man is unfamiliar with the danger of fire. It is probably a copy, Lena who ran out is the real Lena. However, is Lena who has gone through all of this really the same Lena before? Since there have been a series of phenomena that have happened before, and even the glasses girl has become a living plant, why our understanding of the so-called replication and assimilation replacement process must be limited to obtaining somatic cells>cloning>replacement of the original person, such a cliché Think about it with the modern medical thinking we have ever known? This so-called true Lena may have been gradually "fused". When I woke up from the lighthouse, I had the desire to survive as the old Lena, so I burned everything to the torch and escaped as the new Lena to be replaced. The care and intimacy of the "fake Kane" of the same race went to meet him and hugged him
till the end. Whether Lena Kane is real or not, it seems that he is not a human being. It seems that it is impossible to dialectically.
I think, as long as you don’t be misled by the trailer to watch the adventure. From the perspective of the thriller mentality of fighting monsters, it is not difficult to understand the movie. As for the degree and direction of understanding, it depends on the audience's level. The director Garland used a lot of subtle and weird methods to describe this beautiful but chilling paradise. Why not want the audience to jump out of the common sense of thinking and feel the imagination until the end without giving the reality. The external existence of the image brings us a visual and logical impact.
Annihilation is annihilated, and it also means that things are completely liberated and bursting with energy. It is not so simple to understand that human beings are gradually conquered and destroyed at the end of the plot. I am now more inclined to common sense. And the annihilation and liberation of stereotypes
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Finally spit out a small slot
The crocodile is an ambush animal, it only sneaks underwater and never goes ashore. After a person is bitten, it is impossible to be rescued unharmed. If it is said that the fusion and mutation with other creatures lead to changes in habits....Well put it in this movie There can be a reasonable explanation for the situation inside (although it is still difficult to understand why the mouthful of shark teeth didn't bite people out of blood), but
if you find an abnormality in the night watch, you can't return to the watchtower to guard the commanding heights! Why run down! This kind of IQ is dropped, even Ventress doesn't carry it!
But
let’s not hide the flaws. The movie is really great. I plan to go back and watch it again to see if those sex scene memories are caused by false memories or subconscious hints when biological fusion genes and thoughts are altered. Really hidden lines of family relationships, or both
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