Annihilation is as deeply a powerful, unnerving, and visceral sci-fi movie as I can remember. And it's about something even more terrifying...https://filmcrithulk.blog/2018/02/27/annihilation-the-horrors-of-change/ …
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This was brilliant. One of your greatest essays. My appreciation and love for this movie just grows and grows. One issue though, and I mean this as a compliment to Garland and co. You wrote “Some art treats birth /death metaphors as a gentle, glowing white fades, like a nice...
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pleasant hug as you transition from one life to the next. But no, Garland’s is much less comforting because he’s not trying to lie to you.” But what about Josie? She chooses acceptance and walks into change willingly, and it is the most peaceful, albeit creepy, moment in the...
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entire movie. (Marriage pillow talk notwithstanding.) Sure, she’s an outlier, but Josie is a great example of how to face fear, not with aggression but acceptance. By acknowledging her “original self’s” demise, she avoids destruction and becomes something different.
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It’s arguably suicidal, but also... not at all.
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Well its peaceful decay. Accepting death. Going into the grass. Still more visceral than a fade, but still accepting.
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