I just watched annihilation with my friends two hours ago, and I had a discussion about eating fries at shake shack for more than an hour. Record the results of the fresh and hot discussion here.
Spoilers in the audience! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! If you haven't watched the movie, hurry up! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Glossary:
K2: Kane's clone
L2: Copy of Lina
Area X: The area where the anomaly appears
Who is the husband who came home suddenly after missing for a year?
It is a copy of Kane (K2 for short). Before Kane committed suicide with a flash bomb, he said to the camera, "My thinking is like liquid. I don't know who I am. I may be you, and you may be me." At the moment, I was confused and thought Kane was just crazy, but the camera The last person walked into the picture and looked back, his face was Kane's face! Kane's words are spoken to his copy. This not only explains that since the skeleton on the ground is Kane, but Kane went home at the beginning of the story, but the concept of "copy person" can also be explained by the plot of copying Lina.
Why did the husband (K2) who came home suddenly appear?
Based on the fact that K2 and L2 are both clones, we can get a glimpse of the commonality of aliens by comparing the properties of the two. When L2 was first copied, it was fired by Lina's machine gun. Lina found that L2 was invulnerable and threw the gun to escape. She fled to the hole and saw that L2 was already standing in front of her. Therefore, the clone has the ability to teleport/travel through space. K2 teleported directly from Area X to Lina's house. As for when to go, I guess Kane went immediately after committing suicide, because the cloner would inherit the original body's wishes (explained below), and Kane hoped that K2 would give him a hug Lina before he died.
How horrible are clones? Destroy the people on earth? What do they want?
Talk about the nature of copying people.
Nature 1. The copy person copies the appearance and even memory of the original body, but does not copy emotions
The scene between K2 and Lina in the kitchen is particularly exciting, because this is the first episode in the whole story where there is a direct dialogue with an alien, even though the audience was deliberately not aware of it at the time. Looking back at the whole story, every sentence of K2 is very meaningful, because every sentence of him proves the nature of aliens, and these details about the nature of aliens should be the open ending of the film Which direction is heading is very important. For example, if he said "I recognized your face, I walked over", it can prove that the copy person may be able to copy the memory; he said in Lina, "I waited for you painfully for a year, you should always explain something." Saying "I don't care", it can be seen that K2 has no love for Lina. Even though the appearance and memory of the earthlings are copied, the emotions are not copied.
Nature 2. The copying person has no subjective will, but has the will of the original body
L2 Why used the fire on the body to burn the mother body of the lighthouse?
This brain hole is a guess, in order to explain why L2 used the fire on his body to burn the mother of the lighthouse, which caused the entire Area X to burn white and clean. .
It stands to reason that when something with such aggressive biological cells hits the earth, it can finally multiply and reproduce happily. L2, as an individual in the same camp as these alien creatures, should not take the initiative to set fire to death. what. The only explanation is that she not only copied the appearance memory, but also absorbed the original body's wishes when contacting the original body, and the original body Lina's most hope is to kill this group of invading species.
K2 Why did you listen to Kane?
The same brain hole can also explain why K2 has to listen to Kane's words to help him hug Lina, obviously he can go wherever he wants without any restrictions, from the perspective of ability, he is superior to Kane, this earthling has hundreds of physics Level, why listen to what he says. K2 If you have self-awareness and biological instincts, coming to the earth will kill all the people on earth. There is no need to listen to Kane's words, help Kane record suicide last words, and find Lina for Kane. This alien came all the way to be a good friend of the earthlings? ?
Nature 2. The copying person’s id is "mirror reflection"
There are still a few details that can support my brain. When L2 was first copied, it did not attack Lina, but kept imitating her. It is better to say "mirror reflection" when talking about imitation, because it is not as a thoughtful independent individual to imitate for the purpose of replacing Lina, but a bit tingling "spontaneity". As soon as this extraterrestrial clone was "born", it would "reflect" its original body. Human babies cry and need to feed when they are hungry. Small animals will hide to protect themselves when they are beaten. But think about it not so much that this "reflection" is its instinct, it is more of its character-like a flower from It is red when it comes out of the soil. "Red" is its character. It does not need to grow into "Red", but it grows like this.
Replicators don't need "mirror reflection" earthlings, but they are just such creatures. "Specular reflection" is its nature. It can be said that this thing is empty and soulless. It has no intention of aggression or violence. It reflects purely and grows purely, like the creeper on the back wall of your house. It has never thought about it. Killing the grass and flowers passing by, but it just grows into a large area silently, leaving no grass wherever it goes.
The dividing line where it's time to go to bed at one thirty in the middle of the night.
Keep going~~
What does it mean to flash in the eyes of K2 and Lena ?
In the ending, when the two of them hugged each other, did their eyes change the same as the picture above? Yes, I was connected to this scene after seeing this promotional photo: Lena watched the psychologist captain spray colored light waves from his mouth, and the light scattered into large and small light beads, and finally gathered into a tuft of suspended objects moving with a strange mechanism. The "cloud". Or you can call it "Clone Manufacturing Machine" like I did. . .
Therefore, the change of eyes in the ending implies that the light beads are still in the body of the two, and both of them are infected. We know that K2 is naturally in the alien camp, but if there is no hint of the ending, we can't judge the situation of Lena who ran out of the lighthouse.
Why did Kane commit suicide? What does the last word mean?
Two people's eyes flashing at the same time may also have a hint of "exchanging matter". At the moment of hugging, a part of the two people's DNA/thinking/soul flowed or exchanged. This concept of soul flow/thought flow is also the reason why Kane went crazy and decided to commit suicide. After he copied a new self, he felt that part of his thought/soul floated into the other party's body, and it was very likely that part of the other party was part of him. Being in his body, he can no longer determine how much of himself is still on him, and he is still not himself.
Is Lena infected/not infected in the end? Who is the last Lena?
As mentioned in the previous paragraph, the glowing eyes at the end means that Lena still has extraterrestrial life in her body-"Light Bead", and she is infected. Kane's last words also foreshadow Lena's fate-everything that is copied and then touched will be cross-infected with alien life and become something half-human and half-alien. So at the end Lena couldn't answer K2's question "Are you Lena?", and embraced K2 as a semi-alien identity with an all-alien identity.
Why did L2 not let Lena go for a while, then took the flash bomb Lena gave her and let her go? Is it good or evil?
In fact, the puzzle is that L2 will not let Lena go out. But actually! Dangdang! ! L2 didn't stop her from leaving at all! ! ~
Let me explain. It's really funny to say~ Lena can actually leave early in the morning. As a brainless creature that only reproduces, L2 doesn't have the function of "thought" that comes from a human being on earth. She never thinks, makes decisions, digs holes, or makes things worse, she only "mirrors". (This point I said in "Nature 2. The original self of the copying person is "mirror reflection"') She will not act to stop people in order to kill, because this is also a simple decision.
But of course, we who didn't know about aliens were the same as Lena at the time. We were scared to pee by the clones. We didn't even stand in front of us if we were invulnerable. We were hacked to death by a metal arm in minutes. So Lena tried to hit her. What happened if she didn’t hit her, she was caught by the opponent’s mirror action; if she couldn’t hit her, she ran away, but Lena used a “push door” action to reach the door. The other side’s mirror pushed the door to press on the door again; the excitement was not over yet, Lena’s passive post-door action was also mirrored, and L2 also went to post the door. Now Lena was firmly clamped between the door and L2. In between, his head was squeezed. The essence of the whole set of actions is "death". Don't think of aliens as evil and nothing.
The dividing line for a break~
Leave a few questions that I don’t understand, welcome to discuss——
What do the skeletons in a row at the gate of the lighthouse mean?
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