How to interpret the open ending of "Annihilation"? ——Is the final heroine human?

Adolfo 2021-10-20 17:48:30

I think the last heroine is still a human, not an alien who escaped and lied.

First, let’s start with an analysis of a movie clip. This clip is-after the "dancing couple" in the lighthouse, the heroine pulls a phosphorous bomb open and then grabs the door, and the burning person touches the hero’s face. Then climb to the inside of the cave, and finally the entire lighthouse burns...

The reason for the presentation of this movie fragment can be assumed by two kinds of assumptions: the first is the scene presented by the "female protagonist" sitting in the chair to many researchers in front of him; the second is the scene presented by the director himself to everyone. First of all, we can exclude the first type, because the heroine had already escaped from the lighthouse at that time, it is impossible to see the person on fire touching the face of the heroine, and climbing into the cave with difficulty and struggling. This picture is outside the lighthouse and she can't see it. Yes, so that scene was not what the "hostess (whether true or false)" sitting in a chair told the researchers. Then it can be concluded that that scene is what actually happened when the director was narrating the story normally.

Since it was the director’s normal narrative and what really happened at the time, it can be concluded that it was aliens that burned, and humans escaped. Because the human body cannot withstand the burning of the phosphorous bomb, it is also impossible to have the reason and physical strength to touch the male lead’s face and walk into the cave... so the body must be an alien. , Not human.

And why do aliens make some strange reactions, such as holding a phosphorous bomb and not running away, touching the male lead, walking into the cave to ignite the nest... I think the alien is already inside the lighthouse During the "double dance" with the heroine, many characteristics of the heroine were successfully copied, such as appearance, movements, habits and even deeper humanity... We can see when the alien's head changes into the hostess's face , The expression has some sad emotions, because the alien has already experienced the kind of pain in the heroine's heart: losing his lover, betraying his lover... Faced with the phosphorous bomb in his hand, the alien can run. It's just that the alien has completely copied and become another heroine, "she" is willing to sacrifice herself. So "she" did not run away, but faced this ending. Because the body composition is not completely human, it can withstand the explosion and burning of the phosphorus bomb, touch the male protagonist's face affectionately, and then walk back to the cave's nest, thus destroying the entire "flashing" threat.

Just because the heroine was irradiated in the "flash", there must be some changes in the body, such as the final discoloration of the eyes. But she must be a human being throughout the movie, not an alien who has escaped and lied as some have guessed.

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