Annihilation - from Ex Machina writer/director Alex Garland

[divan]

This was great.

 

[LvtLeeTDK]

Just saw it last night. Call me a dumbass but honestly it's way to implicit and obscure to comprehend. The build-up is great and the final sequence is incredibly well-directed (great job Garland). But overall what's the message of this movie ?

 

[Willi Berg]

Just saw it last night. Call me a dumbass but honestly it's way to implicit and obscure to comprehend. The build-up is great and the final sequence is incredibly well-directed (great job Garland). But overall what's the message of this movie ?

Everyone has their own interpretations, and their are a lot of reviews out there breaking this one down, and it's hard to break down so easily here. There are no easy answers or explanations, really.

But the movie talks about ideas such as how flawed we are as people, as individuals, that we make mistakes, there are flaws in our genetic makeup. Also that we are self-destructive.

In the Shimmer

Spoiler

the characters confront themselves and each other. They change. Some force is changing them. Is it evolution? Progress? Is it good or bad? Or indifferent? We see how each individual handles what is happening to them, all differently.

Lena confronts her "self" at the end. Her husband doesn't even make it out. But she accepts this "new" husband. And she is different. How is she different? Why does she accept this man? Why did she make it out but her husband didn't? They have both been changed by the experience in the Shimmer. Are they evolved? Better?

In the flashbacks we see they are happy together, but they sabotaged that happiness (again, the self-destruction): she cheated on her husband, her husband would leave her for long periods of time to take on dangerous work. Their lives were not perfect.

No answers, really. But raises questions.

 

[tzarinna]

Just saw it last night. Call me a dumbass but honestly it's way to implicit and obscure to comprehend. The build-up is great and the final sequence is incredibly well-directed (great job Garland). But overall what's the message of this movie ?

I thought this was helpful. Read the entire thread.

 

[lime]

The movie was so pointless and stupid that I can't believe it's from the same director of Ex Machina.

So disappointed.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I thought it was rather fantastic.

 

[The Shape]

The movie was so pointless and stupid that I can't believe it's from the same director of Ex Machina.

So disappointed.

 

[lime]

Personal opinion. That's it.