Annihilation is actually an eco-documentary disguised as a sci-fi thriller.
*Spoiler alert
Annihilation came out, the sci-fi adaptation of the Nebula Award that beat The Three-Body Problem.
It is said that the director Alex Garland did not read the novel, but chose a small part of the story and made a drastic adaptation, telling an uncomplicated story——
Aliens have invaded Earth with a mysterious "flash" that refracts everything, including DNA.
Several female scientists, led by biologist Lena, entered this ecological disaster land called "X Zone" to explore and encountered various terrifying events.
For example, a wild boar that can make a victim's voice after eating a human...
The husband who was supposed to be at home was inexplicably corpse in front of him...
Internal organs flow through the body...
There are also extremely eerie transparent fish, trees growing out of crystals, deer blooming on their horns...
Needless to say, the expedition team was infected, mutated, and then completely destroyed, just like the title of the film.
Only Lena survived.
Why send such a waste team to perform tasks related to the survival of mankind?
Why is the protagonist so ignorant of common sense that as soon as he enters the X area, he will die regardless of the danger?
Well, because the main character is a biologist (smiles).
As a biological dog, this work presents a kind of rare in science fiction, the love for the ecosystem from the bottom of my heart, which hit me precisely.
All the details of the story follow the biologist's perspective. Lina entered this area with a scientific research mission to find out the mysterious DNA mutation. What she observed was the world itself and the operation of all living things.
Alien? Dangerous to life? Amnesiac husband? Teammate is dead?
Neither matter.
Therefore, when the expedition team members died one by one, and the general audience had WTF in their hearts, my heart was very calm: Hey, this is the true portrayal of biologists.
biologists are dangerous
1. To die? Sorry, we biologists, we really can't control our hands
There is a common routine in science fiction films: in the face of the unknown, in order to advance the plot, a scientist is often arranged to take off his mask excitedly, and then the disaster begins...
The same is true of "annihilation". At the beginning of the novel, Lena enters the X area fully armed, and the first thing is to get close contact with the mysterious creatures with the same swash characters on the wall.
"The interconnected squiggles should actually be some kind of fungus or eukaryote. Tight, curly filaments grow from the walls, earthy with a hint of stale honey." —— "Lost South 1: Oblivion"
Hey, just touch it with your hands? Don't need protection? What about common sense in laboratory safety? How can senior researchers make these low-level mistakes?
In fact, biologists know better than anyone how dangerous this is. Needless to say, she started to complain about herself first:
"Whatever that is, don't touch it. But I'm fascinated by this new discovery. If I ever feel the urge to touch the writing on the wall, I can't stop myself...it leaves me feeling excited and terrified."— —"Lost South 1: Annihilation"
But what do biologists do for a living? Desire to explore, curiosity about the mysteries of life. In the face of a whole world of unknown creatures, which biologist can control his hand?
The spirit of science in her body was burning, which made her open Pandora's box...
2. In the face of danger, their first reaction is not to be afraid of death, but to take samples.
The expedition team of "annihilation" is composed of experts of different professions, and the matching is reasonable. The surveyor focused on adding various details to the map, the anthropologist ran a quarter mile away to check out the dilapidated hut, and the psychologist stayed in the tent to write a journal.
What do biologists do?
She spent an hour observing a small red and green tree frog hiding behind leaves. Then spent another hour tracking the iridescent black dragonfly to see if it should exist at sea level.
In the movie, Lena had just finished fighting the man-eating monster, and everyone was in shock, so she calmly dug out some epithelial cells from the mouth of the monster that was still cold.
"I've been hearing that monster's cry for many days, and I almost want to see its true face. When survival is the only point, my remaining scientist minds have been reunited to try to analyze logically?" - "The Lost" The Southbound 1: Oblivion
3. Am I poisoned/mutated? That's right, don't worry about experiments!
In the novel, biologists are exposed to possible spore infection and environmental erosion. Watching her body change step by step, she didn't worry about when she would hang up, but instead made experimental observations on herself.
"I absorbed the creature's spores, which may have caused the sample to react in some way. I do not have the proper medical equipment to detect any further changes in my body and mind since that encounter." The Lost South 1: Oblivion
The partner who was with her exclaimed: "If I am poisoned and mutated, then she will definitely take a sample on me first."
What is even more exaggerated is that when I was infected, the life and death of my teammates were uncertain, the X area continued to expand and devour, and all problems were waiting to be solved, the biologist's attention was attracted by a cockroach:
"They've just sprayed insecticide here. I can smell it. You can see traces of foam on its carapace. Insecticide kills them and confuses them so they can't breathe. They are constantly trying to escape what has entered their body." - The Forgotten South 2: The Powerful
Hello! Wake up! But biologists are just such people—
They will always find science more interesting than alien invasion, danger and death.
Therefore, if you look at the movie with this mentality, those strange plots that are unclear and cloudy and foggy are easy to understand:
It's more of an alien ecology documentary than a sci-fi thriller. In the eyes of biologists, a dangerous alien exclusion zone is no different from an ocean ball pool in an amusement park.
Everything is so peaceful and beautiful. After reading it, you are willing to be like Josh, turn into a tree man, and live here quietly.
And the core of the entire "annihilation" is also here: the world has its own sophisticated and complicated way of working, in contrast, humans are not important at all.
Biologist = Pig mate?
Do you think only the biologists in "annihilation" are so scum?
Hahahahahahahaha, we have always been like this.
Milburn, the biologist in "Prometheus", was so excited to touch the alien larvae after seeing it, and affectionately called it "cute". Not surprisingly, he hung up because of this.
"The Shape of Water" also has such a biologist, who developed sympathy for his experimental animal, the fish man, and let it go because he couldn't bear to dissect it.
The biologists in "Pacific Rim" are even more in love with "monsters that invade the earth". They not only know the physiological structure of the monsters well, but in order to know what they are thinking, they don't hesitate to go into battle and build a neural network between their brains and the monsters. bridge connection.
Fortunately, this adventurous act brought an unexpected contribution - humans obtained the invasion plan from the monster's brain, thereby saving the earth.
But "Alien Awakening" was not so lucky. When the space station accidentally captured a dormant alien organism, the biologists on the spacecraft were so happy that they insisted on doing an experiment to wake it up and named it "Kevin", and they got a violent monster. When the monster killed, the biologist shouted "It's all human's fault!" and sacrificed himself to protect it.
Biologists in reality are also so respectful (zuo) industry (si)
Did the biologists offend some screenwriters and directors, so that everyone had to make movies to black them?
In fact, in life, they are not very normal.
In 1983, in order to verify that Helicobacter pylori was the culprit of stomach problems, Barry Marshall personally took a test tube of Helicobacter pylori culture solution, and later he became the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.
Zoologist Carl Schmidt began documenting his symptoms after being bitten by an African tree snake, thinking it was a good opportunity to observe. He even refused to see a doctor because it would interfere with the symptom record.
Unfortunately, Schmidt passed away three days later, leaving behind many valuable first-hand observations.
Mendel, known as the "father of genetics", was also regarded as a weirdo during his lifetime because he spent all day tinkering with the pea field and doing incomprehensible hybridization experiments. It was not until 16 years after Mendel's death that the laws of genetics he discovered were confirmed.
In reality, there are too many biologists who have contributed themselves to scientific research. They seem to be "pig teammates" and "unreliable", which just shows their awareness of the cause of science.
But when the aliens come, I suggest you kill them first...
?| Responsible Editor| Captain
?| Author|Su Xiaoqi, reporter of "No Existence Daily", the body is a ferret.
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