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 first paid attention to, and it turned out to be informed to the world through the newspapers, but the majority of civilians still knew nothing about the crisis. The government's method to deal with the crisis was to send a few people in every once in a while, and wait for it to be certain that these people will not be able to return. Send a few more, and it has been the case for 3 years. Five women who did not show the slightest professionalism, obviously without professional training, could 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 that mankind is familiar with gradually evolves from a single cell to multiple cells, and finally gradually evolves 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." The meteorite falling from the sky creates a unique ecological environment. Here, the DNA that determines the evolution of life can also be refracted, and different DNAs are refracted. , Mingled with each other, so the creatures that we have seen before appeared mutated. 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.
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 his life form, but why did he not sublimate, but chose to commit suicide instead? 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 replicators composed of life forms in the ultimate form blow up the lighthouse? Was the lighthouse really blown up? 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, but people have not yet realized it.
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.
