Annihilation Analysis (Book and Movie)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2021
- The book is written by Jeff Vandermeer, and the movie is directed by Alex Garland and stars Natalie Portman. Both the book and movie leave you thinking; here I do my best to explain both while also comparing the many changes that were made!
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For me, this was a great and sad love story. Her husbands diary was written specifically for her, even going in to detail that he knew she would appreciate. The whole time she’s comparing the feelings she gets in area x to the ecosystems she loves to study. Her husband was already a part of area x when she went in. She was literally falling in love with her husband again in a new way as she became part of area x as well. The second to last sentence says she understands this, “I am the last casualty of both the eleventh and the twelfth expeditions.”
Definitely! I really loved that aspect.
My thoughts on their names:
The Linguist fell off first because there was no language to study,
The Anthropologist fell off second because there was no human to understand,
The Psychologist fell off third because there was no thoughts to repair
And the Surveyor fell off last besause there was nothing to collect.
The Biologist remained because there a force that was and still remains
Very well said!
This is one of my favorite movies, and is also an excellent series of novels.
The books and novels are only broadly related, maybe 5% content. The books actually explain a lot more, but this makes them a bit less interesting to me.
I enjoyed hearing your thoughts. I wonder if you'd do a Dune book vs. Movies review.
I just covered Dune!
And thanks for sharing your thoughts! Both book and movie here are so good and I love the Southern Reach trilogy.
Only watched the movie once, never read the book(s), and don't remember much of the details.
But I remember thinking, at the end, speculation, that is an bio-mechanical / techno-organic AI, 1 of many, boosting evolution of lifeforms & terraforming planets.
But because humans are individuals with different psychological "programing" & inconceivable emotions (ALIEN to that thing), the change is difficult & present unplaned results.
The AI isn't evil, it doesn't experiment around to find better ways to "annihilate" us, it just blindly follows protocol, cold & as efficient as possible.
It doesn't attack, this is not an invasion, so it doesn't need defenses. Everything else are inevitable consequences.
There's only 1 goal, change, everything & everyone has to adapt.
Or something like that.
Interesting interpretation! Thanks for sharing 😊
The books made me like the movie less because they are so much better. I actually think Oscar Isaac would have been much better suited to play "Control" if they ever made "Authority" into a film
Yeah that would be great casting!