what's up everybody? I just got back from the movie theaters
and today I'm gonna do a review on a movie Annihilation! So let's get started.
The overall plot of this film, there is an asteroid that hits earth and creates a
shimmer and begins to spread more and more and more. So then there's a group of
scientists that they get together because they need to figure out what is
this shimmer and is it harmful to humanity or what's the purpose of this?
So they're still trying to figure it out what kind of harm this thing could
create this shimmer and that's where the character of Natalie Portman comes on.
She along with another group of women decide to go inside the shimmer and see
what is going on in there. My first impressions of the film, you know, this is
a very beautiful sci-fi. I went to film school so one of the things that I
really appreciate is beautiful cinematography and this movie is filled
with that! You know, beautiful shots colors a lot of it looked like a
painting you know. They had a lot of very beautiful wide shots where everything
was just so stunning you know the whole creation of the setting. It was just
very interesting to watch. It did look like a beautiful painting. If
you love watching visually stunning films you'll probably enjoy this one. The
acting was pretty good in general I love Natalie Portman she's one of my favorite
actress and also Oscar Isaac, Poe from The Last Jedi, so we have Padme and Poe
over there. I did enjoy their performance, the movie is overall very
slow-paced so if you are the kind of person that just want to see action,
and blowing and and shoot shoot shoot and and things like that that's probably
not the film for you because this film does drag.
Again because it's the cinematography is so beautiful I didn't
mind so much when it was dragging because I thought the story was
quite interesting. However that was not my same thoughts towards the end but
I'll get there. Nowadays we are bombarded with this crazy action-packed
films insane CGI that's sometimes when I watch a slow-paced film
I enjoy it. The movie also asks a lot of very profound questions about life, about
consciousness, about biology about self-destruction, and so these themes are
pretty interesting. You could also say that the ending is up to interpretation
because it's not a very clear ending over there. That's one of the things
that I really did not like. I don't mind slow-paced films however I love a clever
payoff towards the end so to me, a movie that ends and it's kind of up to
interpretation it has a lot of loose ends ,you know, and I don't like that. I like
clear narrative and a specific explanation at the end which is the
resolution. I was very intrigued to find out what exactly was going on when
they go inside that Shimmer. They do encounter, obviously some obstacles and
there's a lot of like mystical things going on and I love those kind of things,
Like mystery and you have to find out and guess what is going on here and
what's going on there. I would have liked it more if towards the end there was a
big payoff. Again a movie is way more than just beautiful cinematography
visual effects and things like that, or music itself. To me what is most
interesting about a film is the story and the development of the characters.
I believe that this film does have some development in
characters there. Especially the whole explanation behind behind
self-destruction I thought all of that was very interesting but it could have
been better you know okay so let's talk spoilers. From now on if you haven't seen
the film please stop the video right now and just come back after once you're
done watching the film, so you can hear my thoughts. So I did love the whole
thing about the self-destruction theme because that's very human nature, you
know we do tend to destroy, kind of self-destruct good things that are going
on in our lives and and I thought that was that theme in particular was very
relatable. Natalie Portman for instance had something really good going
on her marriage and then she betrays her husband and he finds out and that's
the reason why he actually goes, decides to get into the shimmer.
So the whole thing with the shimmer is that, the big mystery is that whoever went
in to try to figure out what's going on in there has never returned. Obviously
they know that whoever are the volunteers deciding to go inside the
shimmer they are basically risking their lives.
Because they don't know what's going on in there you know. When the movie
begins we see Natalie Portman, she's teaching a class and I believe she is
a biologist, she's talking about self destruction from the very beginning.
She's giving this lecture about the cancer cells and how they destroy the
body and things like that. And she has a very sad look. The movie is not very
linear you know it cuts back so there's a lot of flashbacks and things that
happened before the present events, then we find out that the reason why she
looks so sad is because she actually betrayed her husband and he found out he
decided to go on this suicide mission and go inside the shimmer. However he did
manage to get out of the shimmer and that there's a lot of mystery
surrounding all of this because there's no clear explanation, he can't
really explain what he's seeing or what he is of what happened but that was one
of the things that was interesting! so yeah so I do love mystery and try to
figure out what it is those things keep me really into the film. You know I
really want to know oh my God what's gonna happen now. Is he an alien?
what's going on? I really dig these kind of things
so I knew that eventually she was gonna go inside the shimmer and that's the
part where I couldn't wait to get to however again remember I told him the
beginning the movies very slow-paced. So it does build up a little bit into gets
to the point where they all decide. There's this group of women and they all
decide to go in. The other interesting thing as well is that, these group women
that go inside the shimmer they're all going through some problems on their own
lives. So they kind of don't really give a crap if they live or die like a lot of
them don't even have a reason to come back. From all the women that go
inside the only person that really has a reason to come back is Natalie Portman
so she feels like she should go in and try to get some explanation from it. And
Natalie Portman feels guilt over what she's
done to her husband so she decides to go in and figure out, because again the
shimmer is spreading and because they know everyone who goes in doesn't come
out, it is kind of a threat. They need to figure out a way to stop this. The
interesting thing is when they go in inside ,the place is very beautiful they
do encounter some sort of monsters or animal mutation you would say like that,
and then some people get killed. Basically what they're trying to do is, to get to
the lighthouse because at The lighthouse was the striking point from this
meteor that came from out of space. Along the way when they're trying to get
there one by one or getting killed off. When
she gets to this lighthouse she sees this camera staring at this corpse that
is on the floor completely burned and she decided to watch the camera. And on
the camera something very surprising happens she sees her husband open a grenade
and just commit suicide and right after he blows off, another thing
that looks like him appears on camera and looks at the camera. So that tells
the audience that the guy that was outside the shimmer was actually not her
real husband, because her real husband got so messed up inside that shimmer,
that he killed himself. He died so whoever was out it was that shimmer that
took his shape or that alien I don't know. Then she looks to the side and
there is this hole on the floor and then obviously she goes in and I'm there
to screaming to myself: don't go in. like Are you kidding me? I would never go
inside that hole but whatever she goes in, is just a movie! and then when she
goes in she sees the other , her other colleague is in there. The only one that
is still alive and , she said that the whatever was in there is inside of her
and then that it's gonna consume her and there's a lot of light and then she it
seems like she's catching on fire but it's not really fire. And then it becomes
after this lady disappears into this light and fire, whatever that was, it
becomes this weird thing that then it starts taking shape.
There's some blood in Natalie Portman's face and this thing kind of
absorbs the blood from her face I mean, he has her DNA and then this thing
begins to take some form and shape that it looks like a human. And
then and she's still there just watching this thing. I'm like girl! Get out of
there! so maybe this is one of the things that kind of surprised me, is the fact
that I was expecting some sort of like alien scary thing, where it was gonna be
like crazy music and like some kind of chase over there and this thing was
gonna become a monster but this thing just starts to create another human form.
It was very weird and then finally she decides to run
away okay and then she's running away through that hole same hole, right. And
when she's out of the hole back into the lighthouse again this thing is already
there . and I go oh my God ! so It tele-transported himself or itself
already towards the outside. Then she runs towards the door but the thing does
not let her escape and then I kind of have a fistfight there and - she's
knocked out on the floor but the interesting thing about it is that she
defeats the thing or so it seems with calmness and not with fistfight and
force you know. She becomes very calm and touches the thing and uses a grenade and
leaves it in its hand and it runs away and that's how she was able to destroy
it. But the weird thing about it all is that there's no clear explanation was
this thing actually evil ? what was its plan? you know so it's very it's
very up to interpretations, and that's technically how she destroys the whole
shimmer. When she's back at the lab we have all these scientists grilling her
asking all sorts of questions and some of it she's able to to answer and then
at the very end she asks about her husband the scientist tells her: When the
shimmer disappeared your husband went back to normal. She goes in this room to
see him and that was the weirdest part you know, She goes inside this room and
her husband there is sitting looking at her and she knows that that's not her
husband. So she asked him something like are you my husband? something like that I
don't remember exactly what she says, basically she said are you you? and he said
I don't think so and then I think he asked her are you
yourself? and then they hug. There's a cut to her husband's eyes and there's a
shimmer and there's something shining in his eyes. There's also something shining
in her eyes and then that's the ending. So yeah so the ending is a little bit
crazy because then you don't really know what's the deal why are their eyes shiny?
you know it's very clear, at least with the images that natalie portman herself
was the one that escape and she was able to kill the thing that took her form.
However because her eyes is shining at the end was it really her ? or was it the
thing that escaped? but it doesn't make much sense and I didn't really like the
fact that there's no really explanation. What was this thing you know so in my
opinion this film is not for everyone you know a lot of people might not like
it . If you love sci-fi, you love watching beautiful visuals and you don't mind
slow-paced film you might enjoy this but don't be too excitted expecting a huge
payoff at the end because it builds up and it builds up, and there's all these
crazy things but at the end, there's not clear explanation. So if you don't mind
that by all means go watch it. So guys this is my movie review for today if you
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