Annihilation - movie (2018)
How cool it would have been if you write a book and it later becomes a movie? That is what happened with Jeff Vandermeer.
His Southern reach trilogy's first part, Annihilation is a very very unique work. This is the first film that has not portrayed an alien as a weird creature whose saliva has acidic properties that melt iron and concrete floors and hunts human blood and flesh for reproduction and food for its ugly looking kitties.
Believe it or not, I enjoyed the movie thrice so far. Thanks to the concept of MoviePass here in the US.
An extra-terrestrial object enters earth's atmosphere and hits on a light-house. It creates a shimmer. At first, a group of men was sent to investigate the shimmer. None of them return except one who happens to be the protagonist's husband. He returns with multiple organ failures and eventually succumbs to the coma.
The curious protagonist sets out to the shimmer along with 4 other women on a team effort to continue the investigation on the shimmer. The shimmer kills the rest except the protagonist.
There are no action scenes, violence, blood, bomb blasts, rifles, and explosions. What happens inside the shimmer is a never-told-before science fiction.
While exploring the shimmer, the women-only team finds it hard to undergo what the men-only team underwent in the shimmer. I wonder if feminists would openly admit this part of the movie as it portrays women inferior in physical and mental strength in undergoing the bizarre nature of the shimmer.
I presume the idea was to show the soft nature of women in a weird place like the shimmer. Jeff Vandermeer has his specialization in weird science fiction and perhaps this could be one of the many reasons for such scenes in the movie.
Anyways, the story is out of box and very much Asimov kind. A must-watch kind in modern science fiction movies on Extra-terrestrial.
How cool it would have been if you write a book and it later becomes a movie? That is what happened with Jeff Vandermeer.
His Southern reach trilogy's first part, Annihilation is a very very unique work. This is the first film that has not portrayed an alien as a weird creature whose saliva has acidic properties that melt iron and concrete floors and hunts human blood and flesh for reproduction and food for its ugly looking kitties.
Believe it or not, I enjoyed the movie thrice so far. Thanks to the concept of MoviePass here in the US.
An extra-terrestrial object enters earth's atmosphere and hits on a light-house. It creates a shimmer. At first, a group of men was sent to investigate the shimmer. None of them return except one who happens to be the protagonist's husband. He returns with multiple organ failures and eventually succumbs to the coma.
The curious protagonist sets out to the shimmer along with 4 other women on a team effort to continue the investigation on the shimmer. The shimmer kills the rest except the protagonist.
There are no action scenes, violence, blood, bomb blasts, rifles, and explosions. What happens inside the shimmer is a never-told-before science fiction.
While exploring the shimmer, the women-only team finds it hard to undergo what the men-only team underwent in the shimmer. I wonder if feminists would openly admit this part of the movie as it portrays women inferior in physical and mental strength in undergoing the bizarre nature of the shimmer.
I presume the idea was to show the soft nature of women in a weird place like the shimmer. Jeff Vandermeer has his specialization in weird science fiction and perhaps this could be one of the many reasons for such scenes in the movie.
Anyways, the story is out of box and very much Asimov kind. A must-watch kind in modern science fiction movies on Extra-terrestrial.
