I like Nat because she plays two roles in "Black Swan". To be precise, she plays a split personality. The delicate portrayal, as well as her own soft and rigid temperament, deeply attracted me. Nat has never been a prolific movie star, but after last year's "First Lady", the recently released "annihilation" has also been well received for its supernatural and colorful style of painting and brain-burning plot. After watching "annihilation" last night, I lay in bed for a long time and couldn't calm down. Various details of the film appeared repeatedly in my mind, and the more I thought about it, the more creepy I felt.
The film unfolds in parallel through three different timeline stories of the heroine: the sweet memories of Lena and her husband Kane in the past; the five-member Detachment of Women gradually entered the investigation process of the shinmer center; Lena returned to the research center as the only survivor to be investigated. Editing together, advancing one by one, but interlocking, brings the audience into a mystery at once, and gradually clears the clouds as the story progresses in different time periods, such a design has to be impressed by the director's skill.
From the very beginning of the film, the director has carefully arranged Lena's lectures - the constantly dividing cancer cells, also known as HeLa cells, were first removed by doctors from a black American cervical cancer cell and cultured. So far, they are called "immortal cells". This class seems to be implanted unintentionally, but it is actually an important scientific basis for the smooth progress of the entire film, and it happens that Lena is an expert in this field, which has made a good preparation for the following.
Later, through the conversation between Lena and black colleagues, we can probably guess that the heroine's husband has disappeared for a year, either dead or injured. In short, the heroine must be brooding about this matter. And there must be something between the two, otherwise why would Lena have an inexplicable resistance to the kindness of her colleague.
Even so, Lena still intends to say goodbye to the past, and she repaints her and Kane's bedroom with good nostalgia for the past. At this moment, his husband appeared in front of her bizarrely, although various details showed that this person was not her husband, such as:
1. When Kane appeared at the entrance of the stairs, he carefully looked at the photos on the wall. If he was a real husband, he missed someone so anxiously, why would he be so mad at him, it would be better if he rushed up and picked him up;
2. When the female protagonist saw Kane rushing up, the male protagonist's eyes showed not love, but a strange gaze;
3. When the female protagonist asked the male protagonist where he went this year, it was obvious that the man opposite had lost all his memories, or that he had no memory.
But Lena didn't know all this at first, the only thing she cared about was what happened to his husband?
With such doubts, Lena volunteered to join the army of scientists studying Shinmer (hereafter referred to as the world of bubbles) and became one of the last five people to enter the mysterious colorful bubble, and was the only one who survived. people. What happened in the middle, please be sure to see it yourself, because the director's method of creating a supernatural atmosphere is different from that of ordinary suspense movies. There are many bright color contrasts in the film, and the whole scene looks dreamy like a fairy tale world. , Behind the extreme beautification is a profound analysis of human nature, which is very worth seeing.
When you watch the whole film, you will definitely have many questions like me, so I will tell you my own understanding and opinions one by one.
1. What exactly happens in Shinmer?
According to the conclusions drawn by Lena and the physicists, all creatures in the bubble world are refracted by their DNA, causing their own cells to start to mutate to varying degrees, a crocodile has shark teeth, a plant grows A different line of flowers, a soldier who turned into a mural (I believe he was not disemboweled because of an illusion, if it was an illusion, he would not have turned into a mural in the end. He did mutate! When Lena and the others found him , he has been pierced by something infinitely divided, like a tumor, causing it to merge into a painting with the wall),
Even the bears that make human voices but have grunting heads break through the boundaries of species and blend with each other, as if they are constantly evolving towards a source.
My point of view is that the bubble world in the film is actually a microcosm of an ecosystem. All creatures have the same root, and they reinforce each other, refract each other, and are constantly assimilated. And when the beacon that was the center of the bubble was destroyed, everything disappeared and was reduced to ashes.
This is probably a reflection of the editor and director on the natural ecology. It seems absurd, but its essence is equivalent to the real world we live in. All things are of the same origin, which destroys the balance of the core and is equivalent to self-destruction.
2. Why is the heroine the only one who survived, just because of the protagonist's halo?
Don't think about it, the audience will also know that the heroine must successfully get out of the bubble world in the end. In addition, in fact, in the film, the director has already made a careful design, which makes us feel that the protagonist's halo is not so far-fetched. At the very beginning of the film, the director is like the audience explaining that Lena is a biologist whose field of expertise happens to be the infinite differentiation of cells. And through the furnishings of the hero and heroine's home, we can find that the heroine herself is also a fast-training U.S. Army soldier.
Such an identity made her in a dominant position after following the group into the bubble world. (When first entering the border, the heroine was the fourth one to enter, and the grumpy surveyor was the second brave one to enter. But after the geologist was attacked, the brave surveyor began to try to escape, and The heroine's competitive character is inspired, she wants to overcome all this, and most of the time after that, she is at the forefront)
We can also see from this that in the face of such unknowns and fears, some people become cowardly, suspicious, and even choose to self-destruct, but only Lena chose to fight, and her in-depth research on cells, And his strong desire to rescue her husband, so that she can face her body more calmly, instead of being overwhelmed by mutations.
In addition, from the mouths of geologists and psychologists, we also know that everyone who came in in the past, including this time, has various misfortunes,
Including Lena's husband Kane, also chose to participate in this devastating action after learning that his beloved wife was cheating on someone else. Geologists have also said that at the moment her child died, she had already died once. The heroine's motivation is to help her husband wake up and explore the real world of bubbles. She participated in this action with an extremely strong hope of life. The desire for survival itself is different, and the ending is naturally doomed. .
A sentence before an applied physicist turned into a plant: You chose to fight, and I don't want anything!
I have to say that the director and screenwriter are meticulous in their insight and characterization of human nature.
3. Who is the man who finally woke up? What does the final eye color change mean?
When the lighthouse was burnt to ashes by a fire, the bubble world disappeared, and all the creatures that had evolved were also reduced to ashes, but why only Kane woke up. Therefore, many viewers speculated that Kane who came back should be himself. rather than a replica that evolved from a bubble. Then the question comes, if it is the deity, even if the bubble world disappears, the evolution of cells is irreversible, and how does Kane, who has suffered internal bleeding due to powerful changes, recover in an instant. If so, the physicist who turned into a plant should also be resurrected, and the rattlesnake tattoo on Lena's hand should also disappear, because these are the products of cell evolution.
So I still insisted that it was just a replica who woke up. From his previous memory loss, to the appearance of an identical individual in Kane's video, and the fact that the individual met the heroine after recovery and asked her if she was Lena, and of course the pupils that changed color when they finally hugged , All this is enough to prove that it is a clone, a rebirth of the male protagonist.
As for why the heroine's eyes also changed color in the end, my understanding is that it means the rebirth of two people. The heroine Lena loves Kane very much, but he cheated with his black colleague, and her husband chose to participate in this suicidal action because it was difficult to accept. This time, the bubble world gave them the opportunity to deconstruct them into rebirth. The male protagonist died, but there was an equivalent replica. The female protagonist did not die, but had a spiritual rebirth.
4. What exactly does "annihilation" mean?
The name of annihilation is really literary, coupled with the film's fantastic and supernatural style, its theme is really intriguing. What exactly is annihilation worth?
Let's think about it carefully, there is no fatal danger in the bubble world. No matter it is a mutated crocodile or a human-speaking bear, it is not invincible.
(They all ended up being shot, not so-called undead)
The refraction of the lighthouse did not cause the creatures living in the bubble world to die, but was extremely lush, like the immortality of Hela cells, so dazzling and dazzling, where the creatures were reborn.
In contrast, none of the human beings who entered the bubble world survived, and everyone is guessing that something in the bubble world killed them, or did they kill each other?
Fear limits their behavior, and human nature has become the only invincible thing in this illusory world, so it seems that people are much more vulnerable than living things. The members of the exploration team have more or less desecrated their lives, surveyors who drink alcohol, physicists who self-harm to prove that they are alive, psychologists who have cancer for no reason... The unknown and fear in the outside world Under these circumstances, the fragile nature of these people has been revealed one by one. Whether it is self-destruction or mutual suspicion, in the end, it is the people themselves who choose to give up. Finally, in the lighthouse, the huge black hole created by the psychologist's disillusionment is like a mirror, and when you are staring at it, it is also staring at you.
It's like an alter ego in your subconscious mind, capable of hitting the weakest point in the depths of your soul. Kane also found the lighthouse, he also saw another self, but under the inner struggle, he chose self-destruction. Just like when he learned that his wife cheated with others, he didn't face it directly, he still retreated cowardly, annihilating in the bubbles. However, it turns out that the heroine finally defeated her inner self through witty fighting, and her guilt and unease towards her husband were eventually annihilated into ashes along with her husband's bones along with a fire.
Here in the film, the thinking about life and human nature is somewhat heavy. Fortunately, the bubble world eventually disappeared.
The above are just some of my personal opinions, don't spray if you don't like it, thank you!
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