Personally, I think it is the best narrative and the best picture I have seen in the year.
Describing the development of the story from the point of view of the biologist Lena's self-reported, left countless places worth pondering and speculating for the audience, as well as mysteries, creating suspense for the entire film, which is in line with the biggest theme of the film "unknown".
Just watched this video and thought of "Supernatural Horror in Literature" by HP LoveCraft.
The movie embodies what the most classic lines of it all say -
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." -HPLoveCraft
It translates to "The oldest and strongest emotion of man is fear, and the oldest and strongest fear is the fear of the unknown."
Below is the article "Supernatural Horror in Literature"
"Supernatural Horror in Literature" by HP Lovecraft
www.hplovecraft.com
As the fear of the unknown is expressed in the article, the fear in the movie is not the Only Horror feeling that traditional thrillers or horror films bring to people, not very bloody, violent, or suddenly giving you a ghost Come out to simply scare the audience. The greatest fear in annihilation is the unknown. The researchers don't know anything about the X Area - how the shimer was created, what's in it, and the people who were sent in never came out. These three pieces of information are enough to make the audience have an inner fear of X area.
There is also a documentary from HPLoveCraft's point of view
You can watch "Fear of the unknown"
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Just finished the first time, there are still many plots to be scrutinized, first code your own understanding and opinions.
Back to the topic, annihilation is narrated from the perspective of the heroine from the beginning, before, during, and after the heroine enters the shimer. There are suspense and puzzles in every link.
In the beginning, his husband suddenly came home and asked him that he didn't know anything, implying that Kane was not the original Kane to a certain extent, laying the groundwork for future episodes. In addition, Kane vomited blood in his mouth shortly after and was taken to an ambulance. Seeing this, I have a lot of questions in my heart, and I can't wait to see the next episode. Usually, the next episode that the audience expects should be in the hospital, but I didn't expect to be robbed in the middle. A sudden twist brings the audience a feeling of surprise or surprise. Not plot fatigue at all.
Later, when his husband was the only one who escaped from the shimer, this is very strange, why so many people went in, and there were about 10 groups in front of his husband's group, only his husband Kane is out.
And while his husband was in the ambulance, he was hijacked by a car in the South. I would like to ask, why did they know that his husband was in the ambulance? This answer is not shown in the movie and can only be guessed by oneself.
After arriving in the south, the heroine voluntarily applied to join the exploration team, which was composed of physicist Josie, biologist Lena, psychologist, Dr. Ventress, geologist Shepard, and medical staff Anya. There must be a reason why 5 of them are willing to enter the shimer that none of the top 11 prospectors have ever come out of. Dr. Ventress has no friends, no relatives, no children, a workaholic, only to find out later that she has cancer and is ready for Self-destruction (self-destruction), which Dr. Ventress compares to programmed cell death. death), also known as apoptosis (apoptosis), when some cells in multicellular organisms are no longer needed by the organism during development or are damaged, they activate a genetically controlled suicide mechanism to die. Apoptotic cell death is a normal physiological process, and it is also a kind of altruistic cell death. Local, individual death is conducive to the survival of the whole or the population. The general meaning of psychologists here should be that they are willing to explore the truth for human beings and are willing to die by themselves. The other team members have experienced some pain before choosing this place. The most puzzling of them is Anya. There are many hints of her motives in the movie, but in the end, no answer is given.
After entering the southern border, the director first showed the scene where everyone lost their memory. It has been 3-4 days, but they can't remember what happened before, which implies the influence of shimer on people's mind and consciousness.
There is another contradiction here, but the team in the back can remember what happened before. In the back, Anya can recall the scene of being chased by a crocodile and watching an autopsy video before. It means that there is something wrong with the heroine's narrative later, and she should have lied to the person who asked her. At the back, when they entered a house, and the scene of this house is the home of the heroine Lena, it can be explained that it is a lie fabricated by the heroine.
The heroine tried to hide that she was Kane's wife. The medical staff, Anya, found out that she was very violent, tied the heroine, and even wanted to dissect the heroine with a knife. From her point of view, she really showed over- reacting. Unless Kane's anatomy person has a connection with Anya, but this answer movie also doesn't give the answer.
The place to ponder the fear - or the place to be truly fearful.
- The person who was dissected by Kane at the time grew into a mushroom (or a large swath of fast-growing fungi)
-Bears make human calls to lure their prey.
- The growth shape of the flower is humanoid. Previously, it was speculated that flowers have the same DNA as people. Later, when Josie became a flower, he realized that those flowers were all changed by people.
- As you can see from Kane's video, the former team has basically gone crazy and started to kill each other, but the heroine's team is all sane? This also proves that the heroine is fabricating a story.
-clone. I have thought of everything that can be thought of in the previous biological variation, and I think the author's brain hole is really big for this replicator. When the heroine was confronted with the inquiries, she mentioned replicating (probably this word, I don't remember, I was reading it during the second swipe), and at this time the inquisitor was asking - what replicating, make it clear, and then the heroine here did not Said and jumped again. When the heroine went to Shepard, she found two deer with identical movements and appearances, and laid a foreshadowing. According to the description of the heroine, his husband was also copied, and the heroine here should not have disclosed it to the inquisitor, because the heroine herself was too. . I don't think it's an open ending, because after thinking about it carefully, many details can prove that the heroine is making up the story, and at the same time, the pupils of the duplicant couple's glowing eyes prove that both of them are replicators. In addition, there is another detail. In the end, the hostess took a sip from the water glass on the table, and then the two water lines on the water glass were combined, giving a hint again that she was a replicator.
-Kane's video, when I saw Kane's video, I thought he was just sending it to someone later, saying he wanted to find Lena or something, when I saw him commit suicide, I suddenly felt scared, so I came back Who is that Kane? After letting Kane die, the replicant Kane appeared in front of the camera, which was really terrifying. It turned out that finding Lena was what Kane said to the clones. But why did Kane want the clones to find Lena?
- The heroine's lie. Just now I also mentioned the evidence that can prove that the heroine is lying. According to the heroine, she killed the replicant with a white phosphorus bomb, and the replicator lit the lighthouse with fire, and finally burned to ashes. The strange thing is that the heroine clearly ran out, how do you know that the replicator set the fire on the dead Kane, ignited the roots of the tree next to it, and finally burned down the entire lighthouse in the underground of the runway. At this time, the heroine should have run away long ago, it is impossible to describe such details. At the same time, many details in the front can explain the lies of the heroine. The only explanation is that he was a clone, blew up the heroine in the lighthouse, burned it down, disguised as Lena, or turned into Lena.
- imitation of replicants
When the cloned Lena came out, the clones completely imitated Lena's movements. It's not clear why it's imitating, or because it's Lena's cells, so it's exactly what Lena thinks. From the back, the movements of the two are still different, indicating that they are two brains. The reason why I think imitation is very scary here is that when others already know exactly how you will move next, and he already knows you like the back of your hand, and you can't do anything, you can only watch the other party do the same action as yourself, that kind of A sense of helplessness and a feeling of being exposed inside. This can really drive a person crazy.
The entire film is both science fiction and reality. In the film, the meteorite smashes to the ground, forming the X area and Shimer. The biological variation is attributed to the genetic variation generated by the shimer refraction. The scene of cancer cell replication appears many times, and the picture of biological continuation is vividly displayed. , at the beginning also showed a scene of the heroine taking a biology class, which all paved the way for the later biological genetic variation. After watching this film, it gave the audience a kind of awe of creatures and awe of life. This magical mechanism seems normal to us, cell division, a word everyone has heard of, but it is a unique viewing experience in the film - including colorful, infinitely multiplying mushrooms (or fungi), A bear that looks like a zombie (and also simulates a human voice), and a flower that looks like a human. The derivation of replicators is also obtained by cell division. The alien creatures take the blood of the heroine Lena, let it divide and multiply in the body, and finally reproduce another Lena.
The description of the alien image can be said to be very sci-fi. A huge energy cluster, similar to a nebula, similar to a quasar, and looks like an eyeball from the front. The visual effects of aliens can be said to be the best I have ever seen. Through graphic transformations, or repeated patterns, it creates an attraction, as if to swallow oneself in.
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The above is only my personal opinion and is for reference only.
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