"It's not like us, I don't know what it wants... but it grows until it surrounds everything. Our bodies and minds will break down into the smallest pieces until there's nothing left."
- "annihilation"
At the moment of entering the flash, everything from macro to micro will be constantly refracted and copied, becoming part of a new ecosystem. The same goes for groups of five.
Ventress has said that all of the squad members have been profiled by herself, and they all have one thing in common - incomplete.
Both Lena and Kane know their marriage has cracked, Kane's love for Lena makes him miserable, and Lena feels guilty for betrayal and infidelity, and to remedy her, she chooses to go into The Flash of her own accord. The death of her daughter has brought untold trauma to the geomorphologist Cass. Physician Anna is alcohol dependent, and the scratches on physicist Josh's arm indicate masochistic behavior. Team leader Ventress's life is nothing but work and the cancer cells he carries at the end.
Their lives are broken. They enter into the flash with a certain potential of self-destruction, and in this there is a vague hope of rebirth. It's just, is the rebirth after annihilation what they expect? Does being born again make sense when you are no longer you? Is it a new beginning or a new annihilation?
But soon, these useless thoughts were annihilated with colorful visual effects... I followed Lena's perspective step by step, approaching the lighthouse, and entering the lighthouse. Finally, the core is revealed. This alien has the ability to replicate indefinitely, and is basically a large collection of living HeLa cells. It ditched Ventress' physical body and copied Lena. Then Lena killed Lena, returned to the base camp and hugged the clone husband, and the play ended.
I don't think it's necessary to tell who the surviving Lena is. Because at the moment she was copied, the alien Lena and the earth Lena were perfectly integrated. They have me in you, and I have you in them. They are no longer simple aliens and earth bodies. To the aliens, the surviving Lena is the "ontology" carrying human genes, and to the earth people, it is the "self" that carries the alien creatures. But their life composition is exactly the same. Just as the human Kane asked the alien Kane before his death: "Am I you? Or are you me?", Lena who escaped from the flash is no longer the Lena of the past.
Here I want to say that the infinitely large (snake head and tail connected) tattoo on Lena's arm is not a logo to identify them. Because both Anna and the soldier being dissected had this tattoo, the bruises on Lena's arm began to develop shortly after entering the flash.
The following two assumptions are completely self-justified.
Earth Lena says:
Surviving in the flash for four months has only two weeks of supplies, because Lena in the flash is refracted by surrounding organisms (such as crocodiles) to allow her bodily functions to survive longer. Given that the film does not reflect the details of the time the flash can refract, let's not make this assumption for the time being.
At the beginning of the film, it can be seen that there are large gaps in Lena's memory, but after entering the flash, due to the refraction of DNA and the mutation of cells, it is normal for the memory to be incoherent. In the later stage, Lena's memory of the details of the incident is clearly displayed in the film, unlike the replica husband who does not remember anything when he returns home.
When I finally meet my husband and ask him if he is Kane, this question is superfluous to the aliens. Out of guilt for her husband and the influence of the alien DNA she carried, she did not expose her husband to be a replicator, and accepted her husband's embrace. As for why the alien didn't resist and self-destruct with the phosphorus bomb in hand, it was because it had decomposed and carried everything Lena had, including love and guilt for Kane and self-destructive tendencies, making it want to die with Kane.
Alien Lena says:
Lena's retelling is selective truth. The memory of the alien creature that just merged with Lena on Earth is still incoherent and vague (refer to how Kane returned home), and the description after that is more and more detailed. On the one hand, the fusion is more and more complete, and on the other hand, the alien Organisms can compose logically self-consistent experiences based on vague memories.
The burning Lena stroked her husband before diving into the hole. This is an expression of love. Judging from the indifference of the duplicant husband to Lena after returning home, the alien who just completed the duplication is not going to make this move. . Watching the lighthouse burn down is also part of the follow-up plan, and it needs to go out and join the "husband".
Why did the replicant Kane leave the flash and die:
The escaped "Kane" is actually only a part of the alien creatures, because it fuses the real Kane who is mostly human genes, so its ability to divide infinitely is limited, and before the death of the real Kane, "the body is like a liquid" flow" state. With the escape of Lena, who carried alien genes and was intact, Kane was able to refract and replicate himself and return to normal (because they have a husband and wife connection). From a religious point of view, the husband and wife are one body, and only when Kane and Lena are together in an extraterrestrial body can they be complete and annihilate the earth.
Ironically, at this point, Lena and Kane were finally reborn as a match for each other. Remember the words of the previous heroine's cheating colleague?
The current Kane and Lena can be said to be the most matched pair on earth in terms of structure 23333333 However, is their love still the same? Judging from Kane's indifferent and discolored eyes and Lena's confused and discolored eyes, the answer should be a question mark.
Oblivion, and humanity.
So no matter which Lena it is, the husband and wife will work together to annihilate the entire earth?
· Mapping of reality
Aside from the background of science fiction, every individual and group in human society is constantly influencing, assimilating, alienating, confronting and integrating with each other.
So, the me who watched the movie and the me before watching the movie are no longer the same me. When I write a film review, I have been refracted by media symbols and become another person hahahaha.
This second, are you still you?
Epilogue
Every part of us, every inch of our body, every piece of mind, including our humanity, is broken down and annihilation begins. But we will be born again, bearing the imprint of the world around us.
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