It can be taken from the novel of the same name by Jeff Vander Mill, the first part of a trilogy that presents us with "ambiguity" with all its mystery and horror, and the word "considered" because Garland, the writer and director of this work we are discussing today, did not re-read the novel again when In writing the film, he decided to make his quote a mixture of what he remembers from the novel and his personal impressions of it, and the film came out already like a terrifying nightmare to come after reading a novel that made our bodies chilling in fear.
The beginning of the film
The film starts with Lina, a prestigious academic and biologist who gives her students a lesson about cancer and how cells act because of it, to graduate from her lecture.We gradually know that she is a sad widow of her husband, an army officer who lost her a year ago. She loses consciousness and goes into shock, finds herself caught and her husband, and is questioned about things she doesn't even know but she.
The events in this section are very fast, and whenever we think we have answered a question, what happens to our mind, we find ten other sprouting place, where did the husband come from? And why is he so sick? Where was he absent for a whole year? Why is she arrested and arrested?
The events then take us to a new turn. We learn about the so-called shimmering, a strange thing that has grown in the woods. Both scientists and the army are trying to discover its glimpse, but all attempts have failed. The only return from these field trips is Lena's husband, Oscar Isaac. Coming to a group of scientists, to join them Lena to know what is the reason for her husband's absence and return and illness?
Special philosophy
This is nothing more than a science fiction film, but once the five ladies have blinked, the pure philosophy of work, in which Alex Garland's fingerprints are clearly visible, must be stopped in front of this different director and writer. Before moving to the cinema as a writer, he made his debut as a director, Ex Machina in 2014, starring Oscar Isaac as well, for which he was nominated for Best Original Oscar, and won the Best Visual Effects Award.
Annihilation looks as if he continues to explain Garland's own philosophy and his melancholy view of mankind. This time we are faced with a new question: Why is man constantly destroying himself?
When we look at the film we find that there are five women on an impossible mission, what is the reason for this? Why addicted to alcohol or smoking? Why does he eat food he knows for sure it hurts him? Why destroys every good relationship he enters?
cancer!
And back again the first scenes of the film, what is cancer? It is a very normal human cell that supposedly decided to go out of fashion and multiplied illogically to destroy the human body from the inside, in fact and what Alex Garland says in his film that man represents the role of cancer against himself, and practices this systematic destruction on a daily basis.
As for the flash that swallowed the five women and former men is nothing but cancer in a magnifying and violent manner, which at first looks exquisite in appearance, but slowly by way of distortion and destruction.
Garland used the picture to express his ideas.Once we shimmering with his heroines, we are surprised by all this splendor, different exotic plants coming out of the same branch, animals mixing from several different species, each cadre representing a miraculous painting, but soon the horror appears Using the same tools, we find that beauty can turn up to ugliness when it's over.
Photography
The filming in this film blended perfectly with the visual effects, and together created a terrifying image in its fascination, with a distinctive use of colors, which remained faded throughout the first chapter of the film until the entry of women to flash, and then suddenly brightened with a distinctive diversity aimed at dazzling us at first, and then turned this Admire to the horror near the end.
The narration throughout the film was in the form of a long flashback, so we get to know Lena, who just came out of the flash, and tells us what happened from the beginning in a complete shock, she does not know how much she went through the flash and how she has been alive with only a little food for months. As viewers, we know from the beginning that our heroine will come out safe, but not that which concerns us, but the question remains how she came out? And how did you win? The end leaves us with a much bigger question, which one has already won?
The characters of the film, as in Ex Machina, came in isolation with a special touch of grief, we know that her fate is black, but we continue to walk with her to know how she will reach this fate.He completed this general character of the film, but did not give his heroes the opportunity to show special acting abilities, or certain ingenuity, but It is commendable that each has played its best role in the dominant framework of work.
Summary and my opinion in general
In the end Annihilation took Netflix out of her repression with several bad films, for example What Happened to Monday, and don't forget Bright, the catastrophe that was shown a few months ago, thanks to Alex Garland who certainly made a film that combines science fiction and mystery, and some horror that made it worthy of classification R It is likely to shock you a few times during your viewing, but it is definitely worth watching.If you are still confused about the end, you can watch the next action heroine video in which it gives viewers a few hints to understand.
