In Alex Garland’s 2018 film ANNIHILATION, there are no birds, or at least none that we pay attention to. You are not, if you’re honest with yourself, accustomed to being scared of animals at all. ![]() If you are, like me, a resident of the 21st century Anthropocene, you are not accustomed to being scared of birds. It’s thrilling, and it’s also very weird. In Jacques L’Oeuille’s 2021 film BIRDS OF AMERICA, the camera lingers on Audubon’s portraits of these birds, and, for a time, they fill the screen. Birds who fight snakes and frogs, birds who win that fight. With their pointy beaks, sharp claws, and majestic wings, these are birds to fear. The birds of John James Audubon are metal as fuck. ![]() GradeSaver, 26 July 2018 Web.This article was commissioned as part of the series Science on Screen: Extinction and Otherwise, to accompany the screenings of BIRDS OF AMERICA and ANNIHILATION on at Museum of the Moving Image. Next Section Character List Previous Section About Annihilation (film) How To Cite in MLA Format Anonymous "Annihilation (film) Summary". Will review the submission and either publish your submission or provide feedback. You can help us out by revising, improving and updatingĪfter you claim a section you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. She knows it isn't him, but it knows who she is and hugs her as the film goes to black. It explodes and the entity dies, along with it "The Shimmer" begins to erode.īack at the lab Lena is brought to see the replica version of Kane. Lena uses this mirroring to her advantage by placing a phosphorus grenade in the hand of the entity and running away. Lena then finds Ventress in a burrowed hole beneath the surface before the doctor disintegrates and is absorbed by another humanoid entity, which follows Lena out of the hole, mimicking her every move. We then see a humanoid entity transform into an exact replica of Kane. Lena left on her own pushes forward in order to destroy whatever it is that is causing the anomaly of "The Shimmer." Once she gets to the lighthouse, the epicenter of the event, she finds a video camera that reveals that Kane, her husband has committed suicide with a white phosphorus grenade. The group is in disarray and Ventress decides to push forward to find the source while Josie is determined to become part of "The Shimmer," and somehow joins herself to it she mutates into a human version of flowers. The bear kills Anya before Josie, a scientist in the group, is able to shoot and kill it. But when she hears Cass crying out for help she goes to her, only to be met by the mutated bear which has mimicked the horrifying sound of her death. Anya, a paramedic in the group, becomes paranoid and ties the other members of the team up wanting answers. The group loses one of its members, Cass when a mutated bear eats her and runs off with her body. When they go in they seem to lose their sense of time, and they discover that animals and plant life have transformed into something new, some of it very dangerous. Ventress, a government psychologist, and a small team of scientists and a paramedic. Kane has gone into a coma and Lena is offered to opportunity to find out what happened to him by going into The Shimmer with Dr. But out of the blue he walks into their home, but he is out of sorts, and begins to cough blood and an ambulance takes him to a hospital that is before it is stopped by a government security force who takes them to an area dubbed, "Area X." It is the headquarters for the study of "The Shimmer," an anomaly that appeared three years prior and continues to grow. We learn that her husband Kane hasn't returned from a mission for over a year. The film begins with Lena teaching at a university she is a cellular biologist. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.
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