Written in front: According to the director himself, he did not finish reading the original before filming "Annihilation." If you look at the differences from the original, you can see how powerful the adaptation is.
I don’t think there is any need to analyze the movie with the original work that the director hasn’t read. It is still necessary to be faithful to everything that happened in these 115 minutes for reasonable analysis and proper guessing (because the director has dug too much Many) in order to try to answer the film as much as possible, to figure out the original intention of the creator.
Remember the lesson that the heroine Lena taught at the beginning?
Four billion years ago, a single cell divided , one life two, two four, four all things, creating everything now.
Of course, the split was accompanied by "mutation" , which gave birth to all kinds of creatures.
The location of the "flashing" lighthouse in the film is equivalent to a single cell 4 billion years ago, and the location of the earth today is equivalent to that of the earth 4 billion years ago.
"Flash" is constantly spreading around the lighthouse (single cell division and spreading) , accompanied by refraction (mutation) , such as the mutated intestines of Lena’s husband Kane’s teammates, shark-toothed crocodiles, humanoid plants, and vomiting. Say the skull bear waits.
The expedition teams of the past dynasties entered the "flash", or were killed by abnormal creatures, or got bad mutations and died.
This corpse needs to be specifically mentioned here. According to the content of the video and the situation at the scene, the intestines in the soldier's body were refracted (mutated), and finally the upper and lower identities exploded and died. If you watch the video carefully, you will find that the soldier’s left arm has a "∞" tattoo that is exactly the same as the heroine later formed. Lena collected/touched the corpse, and before that, she found the scratches on her arm. It is speculated that during the collection/research process, Lena was refracted by the corpse through the wound, resulting in the appearance of tattoos on her body.
PS: Some careful bean friends discovered that Lena’s teammate Anna had an “∞” tattoo on his arm before departure. This gave rise to the second possibility. Anna was refracted by “flash” during her contact with Lena. Lena's body.
So is there any necessary connection between these two people who had “∞” tattoos before entering “Flash”? No. The film only reveals that Anna is a medical worker who likes to drink, and that soldier we don't know anything about him, so for this tattoo, I prefer the director's handwriting to create a mysterious atmosphere.
Lena’s husband, Kane, was the first person to reach the lighthouse , where he was infinitely close to the "flash". The closer he gets to the lighthouse, the probability of being copied and refraction changed greatly increases, and at the same time it speeds up. A "copy" of him appeared in the film.
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When looking for teammates, Lena saw a deer whose antlers were obviously refracted far away from the lighthouse, and witnessed the moment it was copied (split from the body). From this, it can be inferred that even if it does not enter the lighthouse cave, it will still Copying occurs.
The replica set in the movie is a higher species that has evolved on the basis of species (which can automatically learn to replicate and perfect itself) , and the proliferation of the "flash" area makes this "evolution" present an irreversible trend.
In Lena's perspective, we saw Kane commit suicide by pulling the phosphor bomb from the camera video, and then a person exactly like him appeared in the lens.
According to Lena's experience and video content, it is possible that Kane first entered the cave at the bottom of the tower and then was copied by blood. Without experience, he inadvertently completed the process of copying. (The copies of Kane back home are almost exactly the same, Lena did not see the flaws)
But this is not the main reason for Kane’s suicide. In that case, I think no matter who it is, before the mountains and rivers are exhausted, it will not be because someone has copied himself and then pulls the phosphorus bomb to commit suicide. .
The only reasonable explanation is that Kane had already suffered a bad mutation at the time, and had to endure the severe pain from his body, and the clone that had completed the copy conveyed to him about "copying".
Referring to the "symptoms" of his previous teammates, Kane knew that he would die before he went out, and he didn't know what ghosts would appear in his body. At this time, he was not as good as dead, and he asked a copy to replace him.
"If you get out of here, you go to Lena." Kane said in the video, and then he committed suicide and ended happily.
But when the replica left "Flash" and returned to "home", it did not adapt to the outside environment, vomiting blood and convulsions, organ failure, and perhaps a little confusion.
Lina was stimulated by the dying of "Kane", and decided to follow the team to the "Flashing" lighthouse, which gave the story of the film.
The open ending of "Annihilation" has made many people suspect that Lena has become a duplicate after she came out and has become an alien. This alien "fake couple" will launch an "attack" on the earth.
But it's not
If you were an alien, would you burn down your own lighthouse headquarters that you don’t need to destroy?
The truth of the story is
The memories that Lena showed are real. She really burned the copy and the lighthouse, but she also had refraction (mutation) in the "flashing" area .
The reason why Lena is fine is that the refraction she has received so far is harmless (plants with many flowers, bears and crocodiles after being refracted are extremely tenacious vitality, which is the so-called harmless/good Refraction), completed "evolution", and the changing colors of the pupils at the end of the hug also represent this.
But "refracting" also subtly changed her thinking, prompting her to accept this variation .
So when being interrogated by Romaux (played by Benedict Wang, that is, the fat man in protective clothing asking questions), with love and guilt, she did not reveal the fact that her husband Kane was already a duplicate.
Because this kind of duplication and refraction is a trend .
Aliens never really appear in the movie from beginning to end. This inference is just Romaux's view of the replica made with DNA in Lena's blood.
The so-called "flash" does not have wisdom. It is just an alien substance that is incompatible with the earth's environment. It fell to the earth by chance and has the ability to assimilate the environment and mutate and replicate to make species evolve .
So Lena said to Romaux:
"I don't think it wanted anything, it didn't destroy it, it changed everything, it made something new."
Just like the birth of life 4 billion years ago, this is another revolution in the evolution of species.
Until the end, the effects of duplication and refraction brought about by the "flash" have not disappeared. (Lina's tattoo apparently formed by refraction in "Flash" is still there, the teammate who is suspected of becoming a treeman has not returned, and Kane's copy survives)
On the surface, the lighthouse in the center was burned, the “flashing” area dissipated, the animals/plants that were refracted by the copy disappeared, and everything was back to normal .
In fact, the undercurrent is surging behind, and the large-scale decline is due to the disappearance of the “protective cover” in the “flashing” area. When things with deep variation in the area (such as crystal trees) suddenly face the harsher environment of the earth, the water and soil Dissatisfied all disappeared.
At the moment when the "flash" was destroyed by the fire, it began to flood other places in large quantities, overflowing with its energy, spreading across the world, and subtly transforming all animals, plants and the environment .
This can explain why Kane's copy disappeared in the "flash" area, but it became better-he acquired and perfected his own system from the continuous spread of "flash" and adapted to the current environment of the earth.
"Flash" will be a large-scale extinction
An unavoidable trend of species evolution
All animals and plants will be refracted and copied under the "flash" package, either refracted to death, or become a mixed life form of multiple organisms due to refraction, or become a copy that replaces itself, refracting and copying Keep repeating, "Both body and mind will be broken down into the smallest pieces until there is no more."
Dr. Ventress, who was eager to seek alien technology due to the invasion of cancer, "swallowed"/"combined" "flashing" energy in a certain way to mutate, and then perceives "it" Dr. Ventress realized this.
Researchers in the southern border all mistakenly believe that Lena has eliminated the "flash". As everyone knows, in the near future, the earth will become a new "flash".
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