Don't Lose Author | Ten Wells
Recently, it is said that a sci-fi film beat "The Three-Body Problem" and emerged as "the best sci-fi film of the year". The term "annihilation" comes from a concept in physics, the process by which matter collides with its corresponding antimatter, disappearing and producing energy. After reading this explanation, I can't help but wonder, how will this mutual collision process be shown in the film?
In the first hour of watching the film, it changed from full of expectations to lack of enthusiasm, and the plot 360°bug has no dead ends. A scientific research project that has been going through three years, but still has not obtained any valuable reference data; the newly formed team is not only all women, but also all scientists are helpless, the only one who can use a gun is the last moment. Lina, who joined voluntarily; the team members entered the dangerous blockade area without any protective measures except a military uniform and backpack, not even a helmet!
How does a film like this become the "Best Sci-Fi Movie of the Year"?
The video answered it for me in the next hour.
As a science fiction film, "annihilation" has a very complete theoretical system and matching visual elements.
The heroine Lina's husband, Kane, has been missing for a year due to a special mission. One day, my husband suddenly fell ill when he returned home. On the way to the hospital, the ambulance was stopped by mysterious officers and soldiers. It turned out that Kane joined an action group to detect biological pollution areas, which led to the disease and even death. Lina wants to solve the mystery herself and make up for the mistakes she made to her husband, so she decides to enter the pollution zone with the team.
After entering the polluted area, a tattoo appeared on Lina's arm, and this tattoo also appeared on the arm of the soldier who mutated and died on the wall and the medical staff Anna. So what does this tattoo mean?
Known as the Ouroboros, it is one of the oldest mythological symbols in the world. The general image is that a snake is devouring its own tail, resulting in a twisted shape, which is the shape of the Arabic numeral "8", which means "self-devouring" . At the same time, ouroboros also represent "self-referencing" or "infinite loop". One of the best examples is the legendary phoenix, which reproduces or regenerates itself in the process of self-incineration, which is a part of the concept of infinite loop. kind of performance.
In the film, after the expedition team to enter the contaminated area, the collective amnesia symptoms appear, Lina's arm appeared bruised, Anna fingerprint hand moving, which is the serpent tattoo represents - a few heroes in the macro On the microscopic level, the rebirth of life is carried out, and on the microscopic level, it is the recombination and reconstruction of genes.
In modern times, psychologist Jung believed that ouroboros also reflected the most primitive psychological state of human beings. Actual symbols of the "pre-ego" stage and the "chaotic state" describe the childhood stage that exists in both adults and children. Just like in the film, Kane returned home for the first time after the mission, innocent like a child, ignorant of the world.
Another concept that gets the most attention in the film is genetic refraction. The genes of the organisms interact and absorb each other, so that there are plants in the film that grow in human form, crocodiles with shark teeth, white deer with synchronized shapes and movements, and talking bears.
And how can this biologically polluted area be wirelessly expanded? I am afraid that it is inseparable from this kind of cell - HeLa cell, which is a cancer cell that can divide indefinitely. All organisms entering this polluted area will be refracted into the genes of HeLa cells, which shows why people who return will eventually die of cancer. It is also because of the infinite replication of HeLa cells that the organs of one of the members of Kane's expedition team in the film also began to surge violently like an Ouroboros version, and eventually the blood vessels burst and died.
Since the organ pictures are too bloody, please make up your own brain
The thoughts left by the ending of the film are also worth remembering. Lina's teammates died and disappeared one after another on the way to explore, and in the end, Lina was left alone. In desperation, she finally came to the coast. Following the guidance of the skeletons placed on the ground, Lina finally entered the "lighthouse". And what awaits her is not only the truth of her husband's disappearance, but also a rebirth.
Kane ignited with a bomb in the cave, and a new Kane appeared in the camera placed in the lighthouse, and the recovered Kane began to re-acquaint with Lina and re-learn his understanding of the world; When the lighthouse turned back to Lina again, the eyes had not been copied successfully, and after turning around, he became a complete Ventress.
What about Lina? Is the returning protagonist true or false?
Lina did leave the bomb in the hands of the mirror man when she escaped, and watched her burn to the ground, so she should be her original self. But when Lina just returned to the base, she didn't remember anything, and when the mirror image of Lina was burned, she stroked Kane, who was burned out. This kind of love is impossible for the mirror Lina to have. And if it weren't for the mirror image Lina did not continue to chase, it would not completely "annihilate" the entire area.
In this dome-shrouded disaster zone, everyone who came in chose to self-destruct. Kane feels guilty because of his wife's infidelity, Lina feels guilty because of her husband's disappearance, Ventress because of terminal illness, and Case because of the loss of his beloved daughter... As the lines in the film say, anyone who has a happy family and a happy life , would not choose to come here.
Each of them carries a devastated self, hoping to maximize the value of life and regenerate life after "annihilation". Perhaps this is the meaning of death and destruction.
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