Annihilation is not destruction, but the ultimate form of life.
The first half of the film is a typical adventure film routine. There is no sense of contradiction in changing the background to space or ancient tombs. This is also the most ugly part of the whole film, because there are logical bugs everywhere. The crisis was paid attention to for the first time, and it turned out to be through the newspapers? Has been informed to the world through the newspapers, but the general public still knows nothing about the crisis? The government's method to deal with the crisis is to send in a few people every once in a while, and send a few more when it is determined that these people are unlikely to return? It has been like this for 3 years? Five women who did not show the slightest professionalism, obviously without professional training, can enter the barrier? Not to mention that the behavior of these women lacks inherent logic, no one is plump and three-dimensional, and without exception, their faces are blurred.
However, with the final outcome, all the previous BUGs become irrelevant.
"Annihilation" is a story about life forms. As shown in the film, the life known to mankind gradually evolved from a single cell to multiple cells, and finally gradually evolved into a richer life form. Human beings are one of them. We have always thought that this evolutionary trend is taken for granted and necessary, and some people even think that this is the will of God. But in the process of watching this story, our inertial thinking was gradually broken: the same plant can produce many different flowers; crocodiles can grow shark teeth; antlers can flower; bears can talk; trees can Growing into a human form... the director constantly reminds the audience: There are countless possibilities in the evolution of life, and the appearance of any accidental factor may lead to a completely different direction of life form. In this story, the key factor leading to uncertainty in the evolution of life is "refraction" (at the beginning of the film, the director hinted with the deformed hands of the heroine and her husband holding a water glass), created by meteorites falling from the sky. In a unique ecological environment, here, the DNA that determines the evolution of life can also be refracted. Different DNAs are refracted and mingled with each other, so the mutated creatures we have seen before appear. And the closer you are to the meteorite, the stronger the effect of this refraction, and it can even reflect another complete self.
The most difficult and core part of the film is the ending part.
What do the psychiatrists say in the lighthouse mean? Why did she become those particles (if this can be called a particle)? To answer this question, we must first clarify the meaning of the image of "lighthouse". In the field of philosophy, the lighthouse means the ultimate truth and is the final form. In the film, the meteorite happens to fall in the lighthouse, and the reflection is centered around the lighthouse. Unfolding, the closer the heroine is to the lighthouse, the closer she is to the ultimate form of life. The words of the psychologist just reveal the ultimate form of life: annihilation, that is, invisible. But invisible is not the same as destruction. Invisible life is like air, invisible, intangible, but omnipresent. When the heroine returned from life, the scientist in chemical protective clothing asked her: Is it an alien? Do you see what it looks like? Is it a carbon-based life form? The hostess could not answer at all. So when the psychiatrist understood the ultimate form of life, in this specific ecological environment, she transformed into a group of indeterminate particles (that is, the ultimate form of life) and realized the sublimation of her own life form. So the question is, the heroine's husband is the first person to come to the lighthouse. Logically speaking, he should be the first person to be sublimated in life form, but why did he choose to commit suicide instead of sublimating? This is because the tangible life forms have the limitation brought about by thinking. When the human life forms are still in the tangible stage, they will naturally have thoughts, while the invisible life forms of the ultimate form have no thoughts, let alone because of their own characteristics. The life civilization derived from thoughts is precisely this contradiction that prevents the heroine’s husband from reaching the ultimate form of life. Once life enters the ultimate form, it means that there is no longer a "self" in life. The heroine's husband recognizes the ultimate form of life and cannot reach it. At the same time, he completely denies the fundamental definition of "self" that concerns human existence. Don't choose to commit suicide. The psychiatrist and the heroine husband are the exact opposite. In the film, she behaves like a robot at all times, with only goals and no thoughts, so she can react to the ultimate form of life and complete the sublimation.
Why did the heroine's copy prevent the heroine from getting out of the lighthouse? When the heroine gave the clone a bomb that had already been activated, why didn't the clone stop the heroine again? In fact, it is not difficult to find that the copyist did not deliberately prevent the female protagonist from going out of the lighthouse, because it is a copyer and has no thoughts and can only imitate the actions of the main body, but its imitating action happens to be an obstacle for the female protagonist to get out of the lighthouse. Speaking of this, some people may ask: The copy person has no thoughts? How do you explain the copy of the heroine's husband? And why did the heroine's copy didn't imitate the heroine's actions after getting the bomb, but took the initiative to blow up the lighthouse with the bomb? Pay attention to two details: 1. Before committing suicide, the heroine's husband said that he had physical contact with his copy because of his wife; 2. The heroine had physical contact with the copy when handing the bomb. This shows that when the ontology voluntarily comes into contact with the cloner, the cloner has the ability to think and can act freely.
Why did replicators composed of ultimate forms of life blow up the lighthouse? Was the lighthouse really blown up? Is the "refracting space" also destroyed with the destruction of the lighthouse? The lighthouse was indeed blown up. There is no doubt about it, but the "refracting space" still exists. In fact, the reason why the replicator chose to blow up the lighthouse was to allow this space to cover the entire earth. The fact is that the "refracting space" is indeed covering the earth. When the heroine's husband's copy just came out of the "refracting space", he was on the verge of death due to his complete inability to adapt to the ecological environment outside of the space, but at the end he did not have any reason. Complete recovery means that at least in the human research base, the space has been covered and the ecological environment has been changed (when the hostess drinks water, the way the liquid flows back in the cup), but people have not realized it yet.
Having said so much, there is one most fundamental question that has not yet been mentioned: this meteorite, this alien, this ultimate form of life, since it has no thoughts, what is it doing all this for? In fact, do you need a reason? Why does a single cell split into two? Perhaps the lowest level of life form and the highest level of life form have no thoughts, but they all have a purpose, instinctively expanding themselves, such as this universe.
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