Annihilation (2018) movie Explanation

 End of Annihilation explained

We studied the provocative and ingenious Annihilation endings, new science fiction films by Alex Garland and Natalie Portman.                                                       

                                                                                  

It stared at her. Although it may be eyeless, and blank and inhumane, because it mimics every movement of her-her nodding, her stumbling block, and even her violence-it still stares at her. At the end of Alex Garland’s "Destruction", Natalie Portman faces her double, her sparkling repetition seems to have won, but it seems that she has not won, because her eyes swim and glow The ripple is a difficult, provocative and provocative conclusion. In an era of simple and clear superheroes, good conquer evil, here is a genre movie that fights for the mystery of 2001 and the ambiguity of any nightmarish art installation, which may reflect what sparkles after your body is cut.

This is an abnormal and profound film, after the film is over, it requires to be taken apart in many conversations. As we study this disturbing conclusion and what it means in the larger context of biologists being trapped in an ecological and genetic mixer, we must take a step back and consider the true meaning of the movie Destruction. On the surface, it reflects many John Carpenter-style sci-fi thrillers of the 1980s, which may have inspired Garland when he was young. However, this movie digs deeper than its premise about a woman entering an inexplicable bubble to save her husband's life. In fact, this movie is actually about two mysteries: what is shimmer and why would anyone dare to enter it? To understand the former, we must first consider the latter.

One of the most fascinating aspects of destruction is that it followed five women, and the scientists there, who entered a highly dangerous area out of strong curiosity. Rather than trying to rescue or kill anything shining—a rainbow-colored spot engulfed the swamps of the southeastern United States—their pursuit is knowledge and a basic understanding of the unknown. They are a very optimistic book team sent by you. After all, Hicks and the Space Marines have never returned from Lv-426. However, their inquiry is not just a thirst for knowledge. Even Natalie Portman’s heroine Lena and her desire to save the life of her husband Kane (Oscar Isaac) seem simple.

When the conflict is described by flashback from the perspective of a seemingly lonely survivor, Lena is finding out what is bothering her inexplicably living husband. The couple’s relationship was revealed through flashbacks, which initially hinted at a very romantic marriage. In other words, she seemed desperately relieved to let her big love return to her life when he somehow appeared in their home 12 months later and disappeared in sparkle.

However, just like Kane’s possible namesake-John Hurt’s Kane, after mysteriously resurrected in Ridley Scott’s "Aliens", he was also the first person to die-a happy The ending is not destined. Although there is nothing in danger of bursting, his chest, thinking that Kane’s idea of ​​what Lena “owes” is the motive of the mysterious statement, also informing her curiosity into sparkle. Slowly I discovered that all Dr. Ventresses (Jennifer Jason Leigh) described the people who entered "Shimmer" not just out of a sense of responsibility or investigation. Take the central team of the movie as an example. It is reported that Ventress herself suffers from cancer. She not only feels wronged for sending so many brave men to suicide. Similarly, Josie of Tessa Thompson committed suicide because of the emptiness in her life. Tuva Novotny believed that after the death of her young daughter, she had nothing to lose.

Before we clearly understood Lena’s motives, we were misled and had reason to believe that we knew why Isaac’s Kane signed up for this suicide mission a year ago. When Lena faced Dr. Ventress’s question about sending her husband to death, Ventress rashly hinted that almost no one committed suicide: they were just self-destructive. A happy career or marriage impulse appears. So far, the flashback of Lena and Kane's marriage portrayed her as deeply loving Kane and dedicated to Kane, suffering from the mysterious and secret disappearance of him serving the country. He chose his own career, not their idyllic marriage.

Lena might hate herself and her colleague Daniel, but she still slept with him, just like Kane went into the glimmer, she knew it might ruin him-it really made him wonder what he even thought he was like people. Probably a happy marriage, over there.

The human impulse to destroy oneself is at the core of destruction, because that is what the light of light does ecologically. Like humans, it is mutating and changing at the cellular level, which seems to be a paradise. We cannot prevent Lena from being compared to the "tumor" or "dementia" that ravaged this land, which deliberately reminds us that humans cannot stop the pollution and destruction caused by climate change. Entire species and ecosystems are being destroyed, and eventually rising temperatures will inundate the floods, burying marshes and coastal areas under the waves... However, we seem to be unable to do anything but watch.

Our collective impulse to destroy our environment is echoed in Shimmer’s sci-fi influence on the coastline, where Lena can do nothing but let her marriage rot. That's why she "owed" Kane and found herself in the glittering grip.

This finally brings us to the end of the movie. The sparkle of the alien, introduced from space as a foreign entity, has made its home in a lighthouse. When it turns the human body into an exploding fungus sculpture, it has turned its base into a human (even) bone in an elephant cemetery. . The central lair, the gleaming pit of despair, is even quite similar to the structure of the alien spacecraft designed by H.R. Giger for aliens. Therefore, it is fair to say that this is an alien who has at least some form of sensibility, otherwise what happens when it tries to "double" Lena is impossible.

Because of the video tapes left by the real Kane, we gradually realized that Kane who appeared in Lena’s house was an imposter; when faced with the truth about how artificial his self-identity was in the lovecraft, the real person committed suicide. Biological replicas. Although the effect of glitter manifests itself in a different way away from the lighthouse (a bit like a bad WiFi signal), causing some creatures to have simple mutations, others exchange genetics, even the slightest touch, reflecting the dark heart , It is actually able to create an exact replica of the host.

Therefore, before Kane, the glimmer in all its cosmic glory began to take the form of Lena, slowly but surely copying everything from biologists’ physiology, including movement, beginning to resemble modern interpretation dance (or At least it is the routine of Harper and Groucho Marx). We learned from Lena’s narrative of her fellow scientists that she concluded that Shimme did not want to "destroy" or even truly destroy the earth: it wanted to change it. However, as Dr. Ventres told Lena, consciously or unconsciously seeking self-destruction is a completely human phenomenon. This urge to seek destruction is within us on the biological level.

Therefore, by copying Lena’s genetics, Shimme not only increased her physical fitness, but also increased her psychology: it was Lena’s impulse, ruining her marriage, entering the sparkle, and continuing the lighthouse when others wanted to turn back. , Which forced Shimme, in essence, to commit suicide. After Lena escaped from the lighthouse, due to violence and anger, her double behavior was actually the same as Lena had already done mentally: she burned her home. Therefore, she also destroyed the earth like a species, gave it life, double cast The fire reaches the belly of the beast, it seems to destroy all the sparkle, and it has taken years to grow in size and complexity.

Within a few minutes, humanity's desire for self-destruction made "little light" seem to destroy itself. This is why Lena is alive. Of course, this is a genre movie with a twist. Although knowing that Kane’s isolation is not her real husband, Lena still looks for his hug at the last moments of the movie, and then reveals that in her eyes, something is shining, we dare to say shining. In traditional science fiction/horror terms, this is "distortion", revealing that the glimmer has not disappeared. However, there may also be some real meaning here. The deeper the impact on photons, the easier it is to bleed and mix genetics through simple touch. This can lead to terrible results, such as the bear tearing off Cass’ singing and then absorbing them: or like how Josie became an elegant thing with leaves.

However, just as "Twilight" shrouded Lena's human tendency, the contradictory impulse of "creation" and "change" of unknown external forces is now in Lena. She is not the same woman who enters the sparkle, she is able to create something new with this man, who is not her husband. Either that, or the bubble will start to grow again.