The meteor slid down the sky, hit the lighthouse, and a large area centered on the lighthouse was alienated and became the mysterious X area.
Alien species come to the earth, the wonderful encounter between high and low dimensions, one life two, two begets four, and four beget ten thousand.
This was not a conquest, it was a beautiful accident.
What is the story of Annihilation?
Death, Lena said, was an error in the map of human genetic design.
Psychiatrists say that self-destruction is encoded in human genes. Everyone is carrying out a self-destructing program.
The members of the expedition are more or less self-destructive: the physicist Josie has been self-harming for a long time, the doctor Anya has an alcohol problem, the geomorphologist Keith lost his daughter, and the leading psychiatrist Ventress has cancer. It's the end.
In the past three years, drones, animals, and many groups of humans have entered the X area one after another, but they have never returned. They still chose to step into the X area, more or less with suicidal thoughts.
The more they go deep into the X area, the closer they get to the truth: the mysterious "flash" radiated from the lighthouse can make crocodiles grow shark teeth, plants become humanoids, and even sika deer are reproduced.
No creature is immune to the Fusion of the Flash: the more frightened it is, the easier it is to be fused by the Flash.
The soldier in the video, whose intestines are peristalizing too fast under the assimilation of "flash", was finally found bursting on the wall of the swimming pool, and the corpse fused with the multicolored fungus.
Geomorphologist Keith's last desperate cry for help was absorbed by the beast that killed her. Beast's throat let out her scream, enticing her teammates.
Physicist Josie realized the superiority of "Flash" in life forms, gave up resistance, exposed his arms with countless self-mutilation cuts, and turned into a tree man.
Compared with them, Lena's husband Kane's naturalization is more thorough. After staying in the X area for a whole year, he had a long-term confrontation with the "Flash" in his body, and his comrades in arms died one by one, and finally decided to commit suicide and sacrifice himself to the "Flash".
This is not enough, he has to sacrifice his wife to "Flash" together. The skeleton sitting cross-legged in the lighthouse is Kane, and the one leaving the X area is his clone. Lena stepped into a well-designed trap: the cancerous "husband" brought her to the southern war zone, and the psychiatrist Ventress induced her to take the initiative and enter the X zone.
Ventress is actually a clone too. For three years, she tricked her fresh life into Zone X as a sacrifice. With the cancer at its terminal stage, Ventress returned to Zone X, merging with "Flash" in annihilation.
A cell divides into two, and then divides into four. Under the continuous division, a new replica is born.
Lena threw the phosphor bomb into the clone's hands and escaped from the lighthouse.
Carrying her emotions and memories, the clone stroked her husband's skull and crawled back into the cave. The flames climbed up the lighthouse and spread throughout the X-area.
It was Lina who escaped, not Lina. Just a few days in Zone X had transformed her body. She is both a human and a new human with "flash".
The new human Lena and the clone Kane have become the Adam and Eve of the new era.
District X was destroyed, but it was everywhere.
Where is "annihilation" so good?
"annihilation" is a pure hardcore sci-fi work, not flattering or sensational.
The director Garland abandoned the good show of depicting the ugliness of human nature by means of contradictions between characters, and simply told a science fiction story that explores the truth of mutation. The language of the camera is also extremely restrained, creating a sense of breath-holding tension throughout the whole process, and it is not until the moment of Ventress's nirvana that the audio-visual explosion experience breaks out.
This isn't a cookie-cutter alien invasion of Earth, or a cutesy save of everything with love.
"Flash" is only shown through various side descriptions, and there is no exact face at the last moment.
It has no purpose, no good or evil.
Its appearance is purely accidental, and it has no intention of actively attacking creatures or occupying the earth. It only appears on Earth by chance, merging everything it touches. It may even have no mind or consciousness of its own: fusion and replication objects such as Kane and Ventress are not its carriers, but objects that mutate under its influence. It is most likely that the Ventresses' act of worship and self-selection, rather than an instruction from an unconscious "flash", is the act of accepting new expansions.
Humans don't know this. In the face of the unknown, they are like a formidable enemy.
Some people fall into the colorful mushroom oil painting on the wall out of fear, or the prey under the mouth of the monster, and some people sacrifice their lives to higher beings to obtain alternative immortality.
Lena represents human free will. She restrained her rationality throughout the whole process, advocating science and evolution, and refusing to fully integrate with "flash". If she hadn't been pushed into a corner by the clone, she might have prudently studied the "Flash" rather than destroyed it.
But as rational as she is, it can't stop the spread of "flash".
Zone X was destroyed, fences collapsed, and the "flash" spread. Refraction is unstoppable, evolution is irreversible.
"I don't think it wants anything. It doesn't destroy, it changes everything, it makes something new."
A good science fiction work needs to break away from the secular love relationship or moral standards, and speculate on the origin of human beings.
"annihilation" throws the question to the audience: when human beings are refracted, mutated or even copied under the influence of advanced species, are humans still human? Should humanity embrace this "possibly good" change?
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