Showing The Incomprehensible - Annihilation's Influences
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You weren't lying when you said that your interpretation would be completely different from ours. Love films that do that, although it seems as if a lot of viewers did not appreciate that about Annihilation... Some interpretations indeed leave the end feeling kind of weak. I do dig the alien Adam & Eve interpretation but still believe the psychological Jungian view is the most impactful. Good stuff fellow Thomas - T
I ended up taking the line out of the essay, but at one point in an early draft I called Annihilation a "Rorschach Test of a movie" and I really think it is. It lays out this great narrative that, as you pointed out, draws from archetypes, and people are able to map their interpretations onto the story. Almost like a shared dream, viewers come away from the viewing each finding meaning where it's relevant to them.
Another movie that was panned by critics, believe it or not, was 2001 A Space Odyssey.
@@marilyn3583 I still see a lot of very conventional film fans shake their heads in contempt of 2001. "Totally overrated," they say, as though their failure to understand the film must be the fault of the film.
That said, I'm sure we've all written off at least one movie because we completely missed the point.
@@marilyn3583 Annihilation was NOT panned, it was met mostly with positive reviews and quite a lot of raves. This film will grow in stature, and indeed this is what is happening right now! It is a masterpiece and future analysis will point this out more and more.
@@ThomasFlight I like this - 'Watch this movie. What did you just see? Excellent - that tells me so much about you.'
The alien sound in the movie was the most beautiful alien thing I heard
You're welcome: ruclips.net/video/X6twHZCfGtQ/видео.html
same also the aliens in Arrival
the alien sound is actually a rock song by the sick puppies ruclips.net/video/liW-kWFiXtQ/видео.html
Dan -Horsenwelles- Williams I just realized that. Great song btw
Seriously
Annihilation has become one of my favourite films of all time. It's so smart and well made. I remember the first time I watched it I felt like I was in some sort of trance almost as if I was experiencing some kind of trippy feeling
Then do yourself a favour and try Andrei Tarkovsky's films "Solaris" and "Stalker" next. They don't have this kind of colourful CGI, but they are also very medidative and trippy, and the director uses a lot of nature's imagery to create an inexplicable sense of wonder. Much like H.P. Lovecraft's story "The Colour Out of Space", the source material for "Solaris" (by Stanisław Lem) and "Stalker" (Arkadi & Boris Strugatsky's "Roadside Picnic") deals with alien(-influenced) landscapes that have an inexplicable psycho-physical effect on humankind.
@@elfsieben1450 Even the newer version of Solaris.
Statements like this instantly tell me you cannot be serious about cinema. It is like in a discussion of music telling me Drake last album is the best in music history! You cannot be serious.
@@elfsieben1450 The original Solaris is a masterpiece.
The whole movie is dreamy, it's one of the best sci-fi movies ever made.
Annihilation is one of the best films of the past two decades, of ANY genre: revolutionary, challenging, provocative, stunningly visual and almost, if we are open to it, altering our consciousness, at least while watching it. That it was distributed so poorly is a fucking disgrace, but time will assure this film is given a status of absolute CLASSIC! and put it alongside titles such as 2001 and Blade Runner.
The film is crap. The casting is crap. You must be talking about some other film. Only two women in that group are memorable. The rest are all the same forgetable. So how can It be gone if the casting is so bad?
Annihilation was both refreshing and disturbing. That bear scene was more troubling for me than the Alien dinner scene and Ash scene combined. I have been an avid sci-fi fan for decades. The 2000s have brought us so many classics. Interstellar, Another Earth, Bladerunner 2049, Arrival, Ex Machina, and many more. But all tugged at our sophomoric expectations instead of challenging us. Annihilation, however, set aside for me what it means to be human and instead questioned everything I thought I knew. And then exposed my fears. Then after exposing them, they pulled them out and exposed them to tyranny. Yes, Interstellar was probably my favorite sci-fi of the 2000s. But Annihilation is right there with it.
@@africanhistory - it's okay if you don't understand this film and expose yourself for how clueless you are. If you need a hug, let us know. Go back to watching some DC, Marvel, or other superhero waste of film. Or maybe you prefer crap films like Mad Max Fury Road, Forrest Gump, and Saving Private Ryan. Or maybe The Godfather. Suck an egg.
@@africanhistory Well, you are entitled to your opinions, but not only do I disagree, the characters being "memorable" in the traditional sense isn't even the point.
@@Physics_Dude Word!
I loved this film, just a great breath of fresh air. I know you can dig real deep into metaphor with this film but what I took most profoundly from this film was it's commentary on self-destruction, I'm only in my early 20's but I've struggled with depression and addiction for awhile and this film spoke to that side of me. I found the idea that the shimmer was both horrifying and yet had such a weird beauty to it reminded me of how I feel when I think back on my depression/anxiety and a self-destructive nature - cause mental illness does kind of feel like a cancer of the spirit, just growing & rotting you form inside until you get to the core.
I don't know if I articulated that well at all, & probably sounds pretentious, it's hard to explain but this film was a treat.
A fantastic post, analysis & commentary buddy! 👍🏽👍🏽
I've always been a fan of the unknowable threat trope found in the works of H. P. Lovecraft and i appreciate that this film draws it's inspiration from those stories, but the best scene in this film has to be when the bear creature is screaming in one of it's victims voices. One of the best horror scenes i've seen in years. :)
I will agree that is probably the best scene from a filmmaking standpoint. Just raw terror created so well through sound design and production design without a jump scare or anything.
I also absolutely love the way the scene on the camcorder followed by the pool scene unfolds. It's so perfectly structured to make it feel like area x is closing in on the characters.
ƁᴇғᴏʀᴇƮʜᴇļɴᴛᴇʀɴᴇᴛ honestly I was more amazed by the real lyrebird, that mimics sounds perfectly .... Search for it. These things exist in the real world.
The bear scene was the worst.
1. What happened to the bear's own throat? And why just the throat, why not steal her thumbs to use her gun?
2. Does the bear do this *all* the time? Does it rip out and use the larynx of everything it eats? Every deer, rabbit and stray pet?
3. When did the bear learn English? How did it pick out those phrases as meaningful, as opposed to everything else she said?
Makes bugger all sense.
+Smeghead McSmeg "What happened to the bear's own throat? And why just the throat, why not steal her thumbs to use her gun?"
You're assuming that's all that was changed and that the bear creature had a choice as to what can be changed about itself.
"Does the bear do this all the time? Does it rip out and use the larynx of everything it eats? Every deer, rabbit and stray pet?"
We can only assume.
"When did the bear learn English? How did it pick out those phrases as meaningful, as opposed to everything else she said?"
Even more assumptions.
"Makes bugger all sense."
I agree, your line of questioning makes no sense at all.
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With no internally consistent rules for the "shimmer", it's just deus ex machina. Absolutely anything can happen and, "It's the shimmer", is all the explanation you need. Dead come back to life? Shimmer. Portman has a wank and squirts rainbows out of her ass? Shimmer!
That's just lazy story writing.
Totally agree, fortunately I was one that it worked on, beautifully I might add. But I think it's hard for some to accept that there will just be some films that don't do the trick for them, and want some hard answers that they'll likely never find.
TRUE to me ! The mystery has to be kept untill each viewer / reader / listenner find his own interpretative way , maturing along the years . Annihilation his still living in many minds i think ( i think about a beautifull deep Adult SF serie : Raised by wolves also ) . By the way , what did you do on the project ? ps : apologise for my "froggy" english !
Great video. Annihilation is one of my favourite movies of recent years and I think you really articulated what I loved about it. That feeling of “not being able to explain/express what you experienced” is something that most people will encounter at some point in life and this movie does a great job of bringing that feeling across in my opinion.
There are echoes of The Crystal World by JG Ballard in this movie. Undoubtedly, it has influenced Alex Garland in making the film as he has borrowed the names of characters from the novel, (Ventress, Thorensen). Well worth a read for those wishing to further explore the themes of the movie.
This video was on my Watch later playlist for a very long time, at least 3 years. So much that it was the cover thumbnail of the playlist. I shouldn't have wait this long, this is really amazing and shows even 5 years ago Thomas used to put unique perspective into films he's talking about, the right kind of video essay.
This is the best Annihilation movie analysis I found on RUclips so far. great work.
Great video. When Annihilation came out I got to go to a screening of the film with director Alex Garland and I got to ask him a question about this very same thing: his influences. He described his influences as an amalgamation of all the things that he has read or watched including Apocalypse Now, Stalker, and Alien. He's brilliant. Can definitely see Lovecraft as well in it.
I suspect the Lovecraft influences may have been more direct on the book, and therefore also the movie, even if it wasn’t an immediate influence on Garland.
Finally the link I was looking for. References to Lovecraft's work were so obvious to me and I felt so disappointed that nobody mentioned or even noticed them before!
This video is extremely satisfying.
awesome analysis! The Colour Out of Space is one of my favorites (Huge Lovecraft fan here). This movie is the closest thing to an adaptation of that story we'll ever get and i think in that, it does it great justice.
Tiago Soares What about the film classic The Curse , starring Wil Wheaton? The movie has a beat by beat telling of the book, and it's not even credited by the movie at all...
What about Richard Stanley's new film with Nicolas Cage?
Superb interpretation, Thomas. Much more thought provoking than other reviews I've watched.
The film is very captivating. One that gets better the more you see it; I'm not one to watch a movie more than once in most instances. The film is genius and is supportive of the view that alien, intelligent life may be totally unrecognizable to us if and when contact is made.
Perhaps not the most popular, but I feel the best of Alex Garland's extraordinary work.
The Lovecraft story parallels are new to me, and your video does an excellent job of presenting them. I think they mesh well with a realization I had recently, that the shimmer’s incomprehensibility is mutual. It’s an exploration of our universe from somewhere so incomprehensible that the shimmer, its perceptions and knowledge being grounded in that unknowable other, has no basis for understanding our universe.
Having some ability to manipulate our universe, the shimmer is applying the fundamental process of learning language: mimicking/repeating words, altering them, combining them. It’s doing this in an attempt to understand our universe and make contact, and it’s applying it at all sorts of different scales. From the chemical makeup of DNA, to body parts, to whole organisms, it’s treating all of these things and more as potential mediums of communication and trying to learn through interaction, trying to discover if there are even beings in this universe that could be communicated with.
I don’t think the shimmer understood the nature/scale/context of what constitutes a being in our universe until the ending.
That's the greatest take on "Annihilation" I have come across yet!
(Also, at its core, it's like a reversal of Stanisław Lem's novel "Solaris", where humanity - over decades - tries to "read" and communicate with a [seemingly?] "expressive", possibly conscious planet, trying out all kinds of scientific and even military methods in order to learn how it "ticks".)
Great vid. Though I think you have missed out what imo is the primary inspiration - "Roadside Picnic" by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (and the film adaptation "Stalker" by Andrei Tarkovsky).
Another inspiration would be Stanisław Lem's "Solaris", in which an alien landscape - much like a continental/global maritime/volcanic "Rorschach test lava lamp" - brings first abstract alien shapes & forms, but also such mirroring or seemingly mocking earthly phenomena, and later visitors' fantasies, memories & traumata into concrete being without any scientific explanation found despite decades of research. This novel has also been adapted to film, first by Andrei Tarkovsky and later by Steven Soderbergh.
@@elfsieben1450 not seen the film but I’ve read the novel. It’s very good.
@@gordonmarshall5980
Yes, it is!
The novel goes deeper than both film adaptations which focus on Kelvin's mission and the return plot around his wife.
The films are still awesome in their own right, however.
I believe that the entire "Solaris" could well be made into a mini-series.
Tarkovsky's Stalker and Solaris come to mind. As do some experiences with Ayahuasca and Yopo (Anadenanthera peregrina). My NDE at the age of 11 transcended all of this.
Beautiful rendering of a beautiful interpretation.
Thanks.
*the color....... the color.......*
Finally someone suggested the psychedelic aspect and influence! I read the Southern Reach Trilogy, and even just from reading into this beautiful story, I couldn't help but notice some influence from the psychedelic world. The movie did a pretty good job at depicting Area X even though it seems almost impossible. I really liked your video and you had a cool analysis. Keep it up !
What's unexplainable in the end? Alien mergess with flash grenade/fire and burns itself out. This spreads. All that's left is the contaminated girl and the clone.
This is a beautiful movie, it's a Masterpiece, I love it
hell yes, friend
I will never forget the first time I saw a trailer for Annihilation. I was waiting for the Last Jedi to start, And at that point in my life I was watching more films, with one of my all time favorites being Ex Machina. So of course I rushed to see Annihilation the moment I saw it was in theaters, and was not disappointed. Truly a great film
I knew when I saw the trailer for the first time that it was going to be heavily inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's the color out of space. hell, I believe it might take place in the same universe!
I have a very polarized view of 'Annihilation' the film. On one hand, it's a gorgeous, mind-bending, slow-burning, thought-provoking work of art. On the other, it utterly, deeply betrays its source material. Not trying to trash-talk the film, because it is very good, but the more I think about the more true it feels. It strips away the Thoreauvian, ecological themes central to the book (which I find underused in a serious manner in cinema), all of the story except for the scenes where the Biologist's husband arrives home and the team enters Area X, heavily borrows elements from H. P. Lovecraft's 'The Colour Out of Space' while rejecting all of the breathtakingly unique and original imagery and creations of the novels (like the Tower and Crawler, which were not minor details at all but what the whole thing revolved around), totally changes the characters in terms of both appearance and personality (except for the psychologist), removes the profound environmental debates and analyses that added so much depth to the original, ignores the fact that the novels are not three separate stories but one long story, and all in all removes any trace of Jeff VanderMeer's essence. My appreciation for the film grows the more I watch it, but so does the feeling that I would rather have seen someone like Terrence Malick or Darren Aronofsky or Robert Eggers who are skilled with surrealism but can give the natural world the depth and centrality it deserves.
Robert Eggers However Is More With Folk Tales And
He Isn't Going To Ever Deal With Some Story's In The Modern Day.
Wow, I just saw this movie for a second time tonight and found your comment about posting this video soon on another one so I subscribed to know when it would come out, didn't expect it to be minutes later! Great video on what is one of the best movies I've ever seen
That's lucky timing! Thanks for watching :)
So we encounter something, perhaps an alien being, that seems essentially immaterial and which apparently wishes to toy with, or experiment on, or manipulate living creatures.
This may be my absolute favorite video on RUclips. Bravo my friend, bravo.
Great video! I didn't realize there were so many parallels there were with "Color", especially since previous adaptations were so different. I know you've already had the Stalker convo below, but I'd argue Solaris is equally influential, and that both films' source novels are well worth exploring. To my memory, the end of Lem's Solaris could be used to parse Annihilation pretty well...
I am 69. I have always thought that there were things out there that scientists do not know exist. Years ago, it turned out we have one right here! Time magazine talked about a creature that lives on the ocean floor. For years scientists thought that was impossible. The pressure was over 500 pounds per square inch. What was even more mind-boggling? It lives right next to a natural gas vent where it flourished. Its size might have been two to six inches. Back then if a scientist predicted that could happen, he would have been run out of the scientific community. For this reason, I LOVE this film!! Far more than dispensing with cliches, it showed us a whole new possibility and it all started not by a hostile force, but something random from outer space that, "just happened."
One similar incredible film that I recommend is The Andromeda Strain. (!!)(Michael Crichton) about a lethal space virus that we could not figure out.
Pretty wild how you refer to the ending as a Deus Ex Machina of sorts. Without giving any spoilers, that idea plays a large role in his most recent tv series, Devs. Highly suggest
I highly advise anyone who enjoyed Annihilation to read the book. Whilst the movie is good, the book goes so much deeper. Only a tiny fraction of that which Jeff Vandermeer came up with was able to fit in this movie. I am quite sad that none of the video essays ever talk about it. Also, the two other books of the trilogy are quite different, yet they are an enjoyable read for all those who want to deepen the mystery.
Pretty good movie, it could be about an Alien invasion, Cancer, facing your own fears, accepting your past, Evolution...etc
The final scene inside the lighthouse, visuals are exactly the same as look a DMT trip...
Good peek into the drivers of _Annihilation_ . The Lovecraft connection was new to me. I am building up the will to watch the movie again.
_Annihilation_ is a "you get it or you don't" movie. The very best science fiction and fantasy never explain exactly what the McGuffin is or how it works. Those stories examine how people think, feel, and act in a world where the McGuffin is real. _Annihilation_ , the novel, goes into far deeper detail while still resisting the temptation of easy answers or a story arc that neatly ties loose ends. While separate works, both novel and movie mirror our lives in this world. As much as we work to deny it, there is so much of our fragile lives that is beyond our knowing. Looking into that mirror brings both wonder and terror.
The (excellent) film _Take Shelter_ touches on this theme, and similarly concludes by leaving its meaning in the audience's lap.
The reason I love this movie is because it is one of very few or perhaps the only one that shows how aliens would be completely different than us rather than something we could be buddy buddy with
The Endless
Finally a review that isnt full of it. I now know how to enjoy the movie.
Finally a great analysis of annihilation. This was so satisflying enjoy. Embracing the unknown with a story with no common closure.
No other movie explored "otherwordliness" so thoroughly as Annihilation
Outstanding essay Thomas. Such an amazing movie.
This movie really blew my freaking mind. And I really like your explanation of it.
Excellent. At times very unique and thought provoking analysis. I enjoyed your video very much.
great Essay! i admit i didn't relate to Adam and Eve but i think of the ending in that way, i love this movie a lot, i believe the true face of sci fi is questioning and leaving the spectator thinking and that's exactly what annihilation does.
Excellent analysis, congratulations, it is a channel with a general and broad content. Greetings from Colombia.
I swear your videos keep getting better and better. Great stuff man, great stuff.
Glad to hear it! Always trying to hone the craft.
ANNIHILATION - instant classic,total game changer and the new yardstick for sci-fi thrillers
I enjoyed a lot of this movie; I just wish they hadn't tried to explain it all by saying, "Area X is a prism...but it refracts E V E R Y T H I N G."
That's not even how prisms work. You're thinking of a mirror. Prisms simply spread out light into their composite frequencies (i.e. colors). The idea they're trying to put forth in the movie is that everything that you try to send out of the shimmer gets reflected back in and scrambled, but again, that's not what prisms do. Annnyway it doesn't really matter, but bc I'm a physicist that character really bothered me .
Every time someone talks about DMT i get a nice chill on the neck.
This stuff breaks every barrier. I think this is the room of death, colours which i didnt know existed, the deep deep feeling being finally home after a long travel, it feels like a hug from god.
Dying no longer scares me. I have seen what is possible in this world.
If you want to know why we are here or if you have other question to this life, you should read more about DMT and maybe, just maybe give it a try. (if youre older than 25) !!
Its the only thing which give me some answers who are clearer than i could ever imagine.
Dont do drugs, do psychedelics ;-)
Take care of you guys and inform yourself before you do anything!
Brilliant video, absolutely superb editing. Loved the film immensely
Magnificent movie and a really good work from you. I love what you do, thanks.
This video captures what I love about stories of aliens
While this film checks all the boxes of what I find interesting in a movie, it was an almost completely underwhelming experience to me. But I would _love_ to be able to see it through everyone elses eyes and be fascinated by it, simply because I feel like I'm missing out on one of the few deep sci fi movies out there. Any perspectives?
If you've seen those videos of audible sounds from fungi, that's what the alien music sounded like to me.
this was fucking amazing. everything you said I've felt about the movie but have not been able to articulate. thank you
Annihilation is the best movie adaptation of Roadside picnic, somehow.
the scenery reminds me of the jungle of decay in Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, the imagery reminds me of 2001: a space odyssey
H.P. Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space" might come to mind, but Stanisław Lem's "Solaris" and Arkadi & Boris Strugatsky's "Roadside Picnic" are at least just as likely influences.
Love,love,this movie Have watched about 20 times. Had to watch a few times to get meaning!
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this movie freaked me out when i first saw it. went into the movie blind and came out disturbed lol
Wonderful video essay.
Great video, thanks!
Im surprised there were no parallels to "Solaris" by Stanislav Lem or "Roadside Picnic" by the Strugatsky brothers (both books were portrayed by Tarkovsky), due to the similarity of the ideas incorporated
What's great about the film is that it's about nothing and everything at the same time. Depends on how you view it. The Shimmer it's like a mirror. It's where you see the reflection and what you see there's not going to be liked. Not at first, but once you find enough courage to look, to learn, to accept, to forgive.
The unknowness is similar to 2001: A Space Odyssey, where your mind can't comprehend, and won't. Just experience it as it happens.
The framing device, probably forced on it by the studio, is the huge weakness of this movie. It lost so much intrigue every time it cuts back to her being interviewed by Wong's character. Just let it be mysterious. That's the edge that written science fiction still has on films, it's a form much more willing to leave things unsaid, unexplained.
Excellent video
my look on the open ending:
either
her eyes are different because shes returned & changed
or
her eyes match cains eyes cause theyre both aliens made hybrid, she died at the lighthouse, and story is being told by her replacement & since she tells it, we the audience can only accept her telling, telling humanity what they WANT to hear - alien is no longer amongst them.
I love how it feels like a metaphor about how relationships inevitably change people.
A sci-fi representation of how we rub on each other. 😄
What about Stalker?
Great explanation. Subbed!
Saw this the morning after i went on an acid trip, quite a thing to see in theaters
This movie's ending is one of my favorite endings of any story.
I love this film, it's very rare to get to see something simultaneously so strange, unusual, beautiful and horrifying. It's almost a one of a kind film, and we're very unlikely to see a movie of this kind at least until far unto the future sometime, IMO. Watching this, i really felt the nostalgia about times i've spent tripping on LSD, especially during the scene pointed out at 3:33 took me right back there.
My experiences with that were similarly beautiful and mind blowing yet dangerous as well (i'm lucky to be alive at all). Even if i was killed, i would have been happy to go. It was such a bewildering experience that if i wasn't permitted to continue living, i would have been happy to end at that time with those memories, it did seem like the best way to end and i did deserve to be killed. But perhaps that would have been too kind a fate.
Lucy is another film that i feel the same way about.. but not to the level that Annihilation made me feel, that was something else for sure
The plant at 2:23 reminds me of the Tyranids from Warhammer 40k, which although they operate in unison using telepathic connection as a hivemind, are described as a space-faring ecosystem and that's why this plant reminds me of them. One branch growing all manner of different flowers, but at least the plant is beautiful and probably smells nice - Tyranids would be very much the opposite in every way imaginable. They absorb and assimilate new DNA from any and all life they consume to create new, different kinds of ground forces for more ways to defeat any resistance in their eternal hunger of invading planets and stripping them dry of all life, leaving nothing but barren rocks in their wake.
If you want something simultaneously strange, unusual, beautiful and horrifying in movies, check out "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968), "Zabriskie Point" (1970), "Solaris" (1972 + 2002), "World on a Wire" (1973), "Suspiria" (1977 + 2018), "Stalker" (1979), "Brazil" (1985), "Dark City" (1998), "eXistenZ" (1999), "Mandy" (2018), "Color Out of Space" (2019).
LSD trip' inspired movie: Enter the Void
I loved everything about this movie. I wished they could’ve made it pg13 so I could’ve seen it in theaters. I hope they adapt the next 2 books too, maybe on Netflix if not in theaters
This was one of my favorite movies UNTIL I READ THE BOOK.
excellent video
When I watched this movie for first time, I did not undertand too much and I simply said to myself that is was a nice work with nice special effects, not less, not more. But after that, I had the opportunity to read "The Color Out of Space", and finally, I saw the connection, I saw the inspiration, and I have to say that, surely, Mr. Howard Philips Lovecraft would love this film.
Personaly, I loved the choice of use only female protagonists; there are a lot of movies/stories where women are forced to act like idiots, and movies like this one are specially good in an era where they deserve to have a better image.
Ever heard of Solaris By Stanislaw Lem ?
10:40 I do enjoy that, but in this movie there wasnt enough to work with
i'd like to know if garland based the colour cloud on terrence mckenna's descriptions of self transforming machine elves or if he came up with the same image as drugs+my imagination+mckenna's influence by accident. also if adam jones out of tool had any involvement in this film. a lot of the way through it and especially at the end i felt like i was watching a tool video
the movie is beautiful, but the bear scene still haunts me to this day.
Idk I'd say it was pretty clear, meaning wise.
What about Stalker by Tarkovsky? Sounds like a meaningful influence.
Best movie I saw in 2018 so far !
although i like the theme of weird life forms in movies, physicists and biologists will tell you that alien intelligences would most likely be at least somewhat similar to us.
The ways of man are lesser then god's ways remember that Mathew 19:21 with god all things are possible
Liked this a lot. Where did you get all the footage before the release?
Earned a sub
Fuck yeah man, fuck yeah
We may experience in our lives... Or afterwards?
One day, when I win an Academy Award for Writing , best screenplay, I will give you a shoutout, I promise.
ITS JUST POKEMON GOD DAMN IT
The only thing that made it worth watch this 11:39 was Natalie Portman, she is beautiful beyond words.
and then the scp foundation came and secluded them for eternity
Really phenomenal video as per. I was wondering what your actual opinion of the film was, though. I thought there were some really tremendous things, such as the lighthouse sequence, but I also thought the characters reacted in some rather unrealistic ways and there was some pretty poor dialogue. Is this the kind of thing you meant by "a good effort"?
To be honest I loved it. But I can see the problems that others have with it, and understand if people dislike it which is why I talk about it in that way in the video.
The poor dialogue does bother me in places especially on repeat viewings. But I was never bothered by the behavior of the characters because area x is definitely messing with their minds from the moment they set foot inside, which is something the book focuses on a little more.
Thomas Flight I also think it messed with their minds even before they go inside. So the hokey chats on the roof are part of its influence too.
I for one appreciated the attempt at profound abstraction but it was not the end sequence that took me out of Annihilation. I was with it through Portman's introduction and the appearance of Oscar Issac's dopple. What took me out of the movie was the undercooked narrative that came later. It was the underwhelming and underdeveloped supporting cast, the odd directorial choices, the gratitous violence of the screaming bear scene, the moments of cringing dialogue, and the overall fact I didn't care about anyone on screen. It felt as though there were huge swaths of story missing. The movie feels incomplete. Scrambled. As if The movie itself is refracted. A portmanteau of 2001 A Space Odyssey, Stalker, and other projects that have accomplished what Annihilation falls short of. The Final sequence in Area X brought me back from the brink of dismissing the movie outright. I feel it did too much to make it accessible and did to little to really delve into the ideas it purports to explore. This video analysis was more thought provoking than the movie itself.
It was quixotic to try to film the book (and leave out the rest of the trilogy). The result is lame.
Liked the movie but I can't stand the books. I'm struggling to finish the third one right now.
lovecraft, really? not tarkovsky's stalker? the movie kinda fell when the cancer chick decided to "guard the tower" from the ground with a reading lamp in her face, also sending 5 suicidal / manic depressive unstables all armed with the same weapon is probably not most the scientific thing to do. Why not come by boat from the sea? The bear thing was great though and the 3d fractal was an excellent choice, very meta. A+ for effort though. Btw for all those who think this was a happy ending, they both got dissected or at the very least spent the rest of their lives in quarantine... and then dissected :)
I mean, Stalker is surely an influence as well but that doesn't deny Lovecraft's influence.
They say at the beginning that they've already tried coming at it from "land, sea, air."
They do stupid things in the shimmer because A. with the exception of Lena they're scientists not survival experts or soldiers, and B. the shimmer messes with your mind from the moment you set foot in it.
Lovecraft's writings predate Stalker.
sapin it's so deep fake. Sci fi in the 70s like 2001, stalker , Solaris were actually deep. Being into fractals I was even disappointed in the use of fractal flame, and mandelbulb, very generic. In whole, nothing worth revisiting.
Metatron it's was written before the feminist bullshit, and explained in the book they tried hundreds of combinations before, and no one came back. So it's like saying Ripley in alien is a feminist movie, it's dumb as rocks thinking.
Consider Lovecraft's "The Colour out of Space": a meteor hits the earth; funny hues penetrate everything, the vegetation changes, then the animals and ultimately the farmer and his family on whose property the meteorite has crashed. The demise of the farmer's sons and wife are particularly gruesome. Far more resemblance than with Tarkovsky, I'd say.
loved the book. hated the movie. the last 20 minutes or so is v hypnotizing, not gonna lie.
When's Journey to bedrock season 2 coming out ?
Soon as I hit 1 million subs on this channel ;)
Thomas Flight haha no way you replied I used to watch it when I was like 10 or 11. Anywhere I can watch it still? (For nostalgia 😘)
Lovecrafian?
Color out of Space...good story...and there is a German language film made from the story that was pretty good for a low budget.
When you see films where the alien is really alien they are probably based on Lovecraft or Stanley G. Weinbaum ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_G._Weinbaum )