Annihilation
Tags
en
cegep/3
Word count
472 words
Reading time
3 minutes
- Interrogation
- Unsettling & fear-inducing
- <= music: weird shift from white noise to melancholic (?)
- Experimental
- <= costume: protective
- <= lighting: bright
- <= prop: only glass of water
- Overwhelmed
- <= isolated
- <= background: two vertical lines on the wall = caged
- <= imposing interrogator
- <= many people watching
- <= isolated
- Characterization: tattoo
- Unsettling & fear-inducing
- Lesson
- Boring
- Music: none
- Cancer cell replication
- Boring
- Invitation
- Heavy death of husband
- Return of Kane
- Parallel with the interrogation at the beginning
- Unnatural water reflection
- Prop: bloody water
- Music: none
- Camera: outside the room; focal point on the glass of water
- Police chase
- Conversation with Dr. Ventress
- Prop: bottle of water
- Base visit
- Husband visit
- Transition to extraterrestrial phenomenon
- Flashback: husband conversation
- Characterization: tattoo
- Coworker meeting
- Lighting: dim
- Conversation with Dr. Ventress
- Lighting: dim
- Music: dark
- Entering the Shimmer
- No tattoo
- Flashback: affair with the teacher
- Atmosphere: weird
- "First" morning
- Amnesia
- Continuous mutation
- Encounter with mutated crocodile
- Camera: inside the mouth
- Boat conversation
- Every members suffers from trauma
- Base visit
- Malignant mutation
- Camera: hidden behind window
- Lighting: dark, contrast with the outside
- Disturbing video
- Infected corpse
- Jesus?
- Interrogation
- s
- Finding Sheppard
- Music: unsettling
- Cell replication study
- Lighting: dark
- Cheating
- Interrogation and monster
- Conversation with Josie
- Flashback: with husband on a couch
- Music: cheerful
- Lighthouse
- Transition: sudden
- Lighting: bright but cloudy
- Film
- The descent
- Lighting: increasingly dark
- Music: increasingly dark
- Transformation of Dr. Ventress
- Both frightening and wonderful
- Music: first wonderful, then scary
- Light: mesmerizing
- Trapped with other self
- Self-destruction
- Acceptance of oneself, or rejection?
- Interrogation
- Reunion with "Kane"
Themes
Self-destruction and change
- Team members go into
- Death is self-destruction coded into genes
- Suicide mission
- Contrary to other members, Josie chooses acceptance of death or change
- => the Shimmer reflects inner desires?
- Self-destruction is actually change
- Lena rejects her new self, but still changes => change is inevitable
- The one who escaped is Lena's mirror
- <= as she realizes that her motivation is guilt towards her husband, she chooses self-destruction and dies with her husband.
- <= she caresses the corpse of her husband as she is burning.
- <= she goes inside the cave to make sure it is destroyed.
Refraction
- The Shimmer refracts electromagnetic wave and DNA like a prism
- Motif: glass of water
- Refracts light like the Shimmer
- Motif: Lena is a liar
- Cell division as mirror of self
Ajitani Hifumi