This movie is about the death of God .
The film is just in the skin of science fiction.
marital crisis
The metaphor of cells is clear and clear. As mortals, the unhappiness in modern life, external emotions, encounters, death and crisis, the sense of loss and absurdity of existence, make us have the desire for self-destruction, suicide is the first Things to consider.
The story actually begins with the inner collapse of a happy marriage. As the black lover said, the heroine deeply hates herself and tries to punish herself through extramarital affairs to achieve self-destruction.
But she didn't realize that her husband, who loved her deeply, knew about her infidelity, so she decided to step into the shimmer.
In my opinion, Shimmer is not some alien place different from the real world,
It is the broken, lost, overgrown and dangerous place within ourselves,
It is the abyss of our existence.
Unable to accept the fact that his wife was unfaithful, Kane went crazy and fell into the abyss of ego.
Shimmer
Shimmer is actually the real world. It is better to say that it is the real weeds in the broken and open heart. Everything that seems clear and clear in real life is beating here, full of vitality and danger.
The multiple appearances of the refraction metaphor of the glass, all kinds of surreal fantasies are obvious enough, this Shimmer is reality.
It's not that reality is changed by alien invasion, it's those who have existential anxiety, when they fall into existential anxiety, reality becomes so terrifying, which is why, in this different from "Arrival" "In the incident, the leading, national game, and specific military institutions did not appear.
The leader is not a leader, but a determined psychiatrist, who is exploring with a group of people who also have self-traumatization.
And just like what Jung said, if you don't have a mental illness, you can't be a good psychiatrist. The psychiatrist tries to cure and lead them to seek self-inner reconciliation, and she herself is like that Kierkegaard, who rejected love, led the team firmly, as firmly as the name of Woolf's novel, "to the lighthouse".
In this sense, a psychiatrist means a person who has insight into the patient, while at the same time trying to seek the transcendence and reconciliation of his own existence.
She came to the lighthouse through countless dangers, and in her muttering,
She's done, she's the only one who transcends, she's blurred because she's not her, she's all,
She is God.
all things
In such a shimmer, everything seems to have a shared life,
all things have spirit,
There is no obvious difference between people and plants. People and plants are both life, right?
Everything is full of danger, but it is so beautiful that it is so beautiful that it is like the prehistoric people before they had weapons. Looking at the rising sun and fog in the distance in the morning, they may be swallowed by danger at night, but they are people of the earth, unlike us, who are The seat rests on technology and objects.
So in this sense the other person who is done is Josie, when she is dazed in the morning light, looking at plants that have the same appearance as herself, she is not like a psychiatrist seeking final salvation, trying to find the final ultimate , she did not fight against the collapse of the original world like Lena did, and even killed the god herself in the end.
This physicist, she understands, she accepts it calmly, she is willing to live like this, to breathe with all things,
Just like the "unity of Brahman and I" in ancient Hinduism,
There is never any real destruction,
My death just returned to the universe and the world.
I am truly and totally one with the world.
So when she chooses this way, her body is rapidly planted in a completely surreal way, and in Lena's perspective, there is no trace of her, she is like in all things, hidden , she has been integrated into the world.
Quietly, embraced, and not engulfed in such danger, becoming a brutal black bear or outright madness.
lighthouse
"Go to the lighthouse." The psychiatrist firmly faced his impending death and lonely life.
We found that the thread of time was completely broken in Shimmer,
It is better to say that there is no time than to say that you do not know the time .
This is like the world before capitalism. At that time, people's time concept was not as refined and utilitarian as it is today. They work at sunrise and rest at sunset, and there is no modern sense of "what kind of era am I living in". .
On the contrary, in their view, perhaps only the coming of God is worth remembering, and the final deliverance.
Everything else is just scattered time, the past is just forgotten.
So the choice of the image of the lighthouse is so appropriate,
For people in the past, the lighthouse was the eternity of belief and expectation of turbulent sailing in the sea. The so-called "beacon of life" is God, which is incomprehensible to people who are now surrounded by compass and satellite maps. thing.
The lighthouse as an absolute, holy thing, God unfolds to you the ultimate of the world.
It is also the last place a psychiatrist reaches.
God
It is clear,
The faceless psychiatrist who is singing and the psychiatrist who is seen by Lena after switching perspectives are presented from different perspectives.
For the psychiatrist, she embraced God, she found the ultimate,
And then, Lena, who was embracing her guilt for her husband, also saw it.
Ultimate / Brahma / God, unfolding himself to her.
But we find Lena resisting, she feels this one like her is the enemy, something absolutely external.
When she resisted it hard, it resisted her as well, she hit it, it hit her in turn.
But she never tried to embrace it, to reconcile with it.
In such a realm of animistic existence, everything is connected to God.
So there are two beautiful deer with plum blossoms on their horns, they are loved, and they feel that they are not alone.
death of god
We found that in fact, all horrors are inseparable from modern technology. Weapons, DV machines, phosphorescent grenades, all of which are accompanied by terror in this world.
Because everything is reversed!
We all got it wrong!
The real invaders are not aliens, but us people with modern weapons and technology.
The image of "letting go" is very obvious. When Josie gave up and moved on, she integrated into the world and stood in the world;
And only when the heroine puts down her backpack can she see the beautiful deer and approach the lighthouse in the chant, and when she picks up the grenade and DV again, everything becomes terrifying again.
So in fact, God, who is willing to exist with her, is very gentle,
it has no purpose,
When you resist it, you suffer just as much,
it loves you.
And when Lena finally grabbed its hand, the tenderness in the eyes and the unplugged grenade ring made for an absolutely dramatic moment, it didn't want to hurt Lena, it just retreated sadly, covered in fire , close this beautiful world.
Grenades are atomic bombs.
When the atomic bomb exploded and human beings possessed weapons capable of destroying all, human anxiety and the death of God reached the highest point at the same time, and human beings fell.
All that is beautiful, living, poetic, colorful, sacred, cyclical and endlessly receding.
Those beautiful and human-like plants turned back to dry branches,
All disappeared in a fire.
Lena killed everything except herself in the flames. From then on, she was like the Sisyphus who pushed the stone up the mountain.
exist
It's a sad ending,
Kane lost her ego in the battle of ego, that docile and sluggish look reminded me of the male protagonist in the Shutter Island who had his frontal lobe removed, and Lena, clutching a modern weapon, killed everything except himself The thing, the godslayer, her existence is no longer a place to rely on, always walking on thin ice, like an abyss.
So Lena is still not herself, the question doesn't matter at all,
Because we who live in modern times are no longer ourselves,
Worse yet,
We no longer recognize who we were.
Annihilation
When we finally got back to the title, we found out
Annihilation is so much like Alienation and Nihilism,
Man becomes nothingness in alienation.
2018.4.23 Nanjing
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