'Annihilation' Is An Ambitious Film That Collapses Under Its Own Self-Importance
But then when you're doing it, you get that emotional one back again and you think, "Oh shit, here we go again". "I was off in this other, insane world and just dipping into this one for a moment", he told Remezcla, and "that actually mirrored the character of Kane".
When her husband returns and is visibly not himself, nor in great health, Lena refuses to stay on the sidelines and catapults herself into a group of women who are the next group set to explore the shimmering area. Natalie Portman plays a biologist, and true to book form, I'll leave her title as that, if for no other reason than to entice you to go out and read it once you've seen the film (neither pursuit will independently ruin the other). It doesn't help that every research group they've ever sent in has failed to come back - until Kane, that is. It's flawless for the leader of the group, and there are some rich, well-explored dynamics between her, Tessa Thompson, Gina Rodriguez and Tuva Novotny that play out as they venture into this landscape that is so deeply changed by whatever it has come in contact with.
Lena joins the next expedition to discover what happened there to Kane.
Of course, this isn't an approach that works for everyone.
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Once you finish Annihilation, you'll likely have a lot to talk about with your friends and on discussion boards online. There is definitely an alien presence warping everything around it, but it is unclear what the alien's intentions are, or if it even has any goal other than to survive. I didn't really think about it more than that.
And while Isaac ("Star Wars: The Last Jedi") adds energy to "Annihilation" in a supporting role, the same can not be said of Leigh ("Good Time", the recent "Twin Peaks" revival). Sometimes it's not so intense. I would have been too nervous. Like the Olympics, though, even when you put together a lovely routine, points get deducted when you slip on the landing. Far from it. Sure, the bones might be same, as they are between any two human beings, but they're still two very different people through their flesh and their minds. "What is it? It's an exploration of that", posing it in ways both philosophical and biological: "Is it at the cellular level?" What's inside? The whole film is about characters risking their lives to enter this odd, growing place and there's nothing we want to see more. You can thank me later... The Catholic News Service classification is L - limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. The fact that someone like Kane could be Latino, though there's nothing on-screen that would suggest nor deny it, shows a kind of progress.
Speaking with our own Gig Patta, VanderMeer discussed his overall approach to collaborating with Garland, and it's very clear that he understands the need to make changes, as well as the unique vision that each filmmaker brings to the source material.
"Early on in my career, that was always the go-to thing". Garland has a way of making the seemingly familiar turn odd and discordant, setting us all on edge. He admits, though, that he's aware how important that more explicit version of representation can be in this day and age. In a ideal world, a push would be made in Best Picture, Best Director (for Garland), Best Actress (for Portman), Best Adapted Screenplay (for Garland as well), Best Production Design, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Original Score, and Best Visual Effects. Should they though? In terms of serving the story, I would argue not.
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