What are the highlights of the sci-fi setting in "annihilation"?

Janice 2022-03-24 09:01:23

1. Alien creatures do not necessarily have any purpose in coming to the earth. They just want to create new things.

2. The aliens in the form of chrysanthemum clouds, Zhao Ziliang naturally dares to show them generously! Also gave more than a minute of close-up!

It's not a god, the angle I see is that the cloud-shaped aliens come to earth to play with DNA, just like children go to the mud to play with mud, and they are finally burned to death by humans.

I thought it was a soft sci-fi. How does a soft sci-fi defeat the three-body? After reading it, I found that the brain hole is still bigger than that of Da Liu. Da Liu is still limited to using people as a reference to imagine aliens, carbon-based or silicon-based or nebula creatures, and they come to the earth for a purpose, to occupy resources for aggression, etc... But not in the movie, not in the earth Aggression just wants to create new things, or even has no purpose at all. Refraction and variability are just the influence of this creature on the surrounding environment, and it will refract everything including DNA. Our imagination is still too limited, anthropocentrism.

The ending is very interesting. After listening to the Asian face, he was instantly excited and asked: "So its alien? Can you describe the form? Carbon based or..." The female protagonist interrupted it very indifferently. Yeah, these are just furs, does it matter?

In addition, don't worry about not being able to portray the image of aliens on the screen, for fear of falling into a cliché, wouldn't the director show it generously? At present, the most shocking alien creature image in the movie, a cloud-shaped chrysanthemum:

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Annihilation quotes

  • Lena: The mutations were subtle at 1st; more extreme as we got closer to the lighthouse. Corruptions of form. Duplicates of form.

    Lomax: Duplicates?

    Lena: [She looks at the tattoo on her arm & lifts her arm up] Echoes.

    Lomax: Is it possible these were hallucinations?

    Lena: I wondered that myself... but they were shared among all of us. It was dreamlike.

    Lomax: Nightmarish?

    Lena: Not always. Sometimes it was beautiful.

    [the movie then cuts back in time to show beautiful translucent single-tailed wormfish swimming alongside double-tailed duplicates. Lena is in a canoe on a swamp located quite near to a corpse that bears the same tattoo as Lena]

    Lena: Oww. Ow.

    [She clutches her arm - there is no tattoo yet. However, a dark blue mark has appeared at the same place on her arm]

    Cass Sheppard: You're hurt?

    Lena: It's just a bruise. I must have gotten that from the gator.

  • Dr Ventress: It's not like us... it's unlike us. I don't know what it wants, or if it wants, but it'll grow until it encompasses everything. Our bodies and our minds will be fragmented into their smallest parts until not one part remains... Annihilation.