How to interpret the open ending of "annihilation"?

Bret 2022-04-23 07:01:25

Lina, who escaped, is a replicator who has been copied with all her consciousness and emotions. There is a key plot point, that is, the physicist. Did she become a tree person? Before she became a tree person, she had already explained her inner thoughts, and she didn't want to go anywhere. So, her consciousness was copied, and her form was eventually copied. Lina's body finally burned, but she still tried her best to burn the lighthouse in the center of the den similar to the alien womb. If it was a simple copy form, there would be no such action. It was Lina's strong desire to survive and destroy the lighthouse. was burned.

This film is very scary, the psychologist went with the mentality of mortal, and finally died. Replicants and ontology have been perfect, regardless of you and me......

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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.