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ruin approached, chaos approached
when did the shimmer come to earth? what are ventress' plans? is she recruiting lena or will lena volunteer? what about hypnosis? and, why this film does not take plac...
to be on a level with ordinary experience
tattoos, foreshadowing, black bears, motivations, and dying husbands in #annihilation minute 18
dissevered yet somehow belonging
Lying in bed, LENA and KANE talk about God's mistakes (or not), and the #HayflickLimit and cellular aging. #Annihilation minute 19.
the light of a butterfly's wing lying upon the arches of a cathedral
Still lying in bed, LENA wonders about KANE's upcoming mission, as un bel di vedremo interrupts #Annihilation minute 20.
and the butterfly sun itself on the faded chintz
in bed, lena mocks kane's suggestion that she pines for him longingly while he is away, and we drift into #madamebutterfly before returning to the present in #annihila...
the self-surrender she had seen on so many women's faces
LENA meets the other women on a firing range in a cut scene, #AlexGarland steals character names from #JGBallard but doesn't mention it, and THORENSEN invites LENA to ...
sit at table with them like a person in a dream
Lena, Thorensen, Sheppard, and Radek compare jobs as we take a look at Gina Rodriguez and this all-female team in #Annihilation minute 23.
it was all edges and angles; it was all uncompromisingly plain
We explore the reasoning behind an all-woman team and take a look at Tuva Novotny as we learn these women are about to enter the Shimmer in #Annihilation minute 24.
it was all a blur to her. what was he thinking now?
We take a look at Tessa Thompson as the conversation between the four women ends and LENA goes to visit KANE in his isolation tent, a mission into the Shimmer imminent...
you're not planning to go to the lighthouse, are you?
Lena questions Ventress' motives for entering the Shimmer as she herself readies to volunteer, and we take a look at those who returned from Area X in the novel. #Anni...
do take me to the lighthouse with you
as Lena volunteers for the mission into the Shimmer, let us take a look at her childhood curiosity from the novel. #annihilation minute 27
ah, but what beautiful boots you wear!
Lena finishes her conversation with Ventress, talks to Lomax in the future, then the five women approach the shimmer as we take a look at their uniforms and equipment ...
like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life
As the women approach and finally enter the Shimmer, we drift into #sunshine, #doctorwho, #lost, #eventhorizon, #tvtropes, and other directions. #Annihilation minute 29.
that it was all ephemeral as a rainbow
Flashback to Lena's affair, then enter the Shimmer in Vandermeer's novel and enter the Zone in the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic before Lena wakes up inside her tent, a...
whose day had slipped past in one quick doing after another
Lena gets her bearings after waking inside the Shimmer, and editing mistakes, production mistakes, or maybe a Shimmer-fueled #timeloop makes the geography of the camps...
and making the world reflect the compass of the soul
The women orient themselves as they decide what is next after none of them can recall setting camp, in #annihilation minute 32.
could not remember the whole shape of the thing
As the women strike camp and head south in #Annihilation minute 33, we drift into a passage from J G Ballard's The Drowned World.
a fairy kingdom on the far side of the hedge
We venture behind the scenes and into Chernobyl as the women approach a half-sunken fishing hut and find the local fauna to be quite unusual in #Annihilation minute 34.
putting a yellow against a purple, a curved shape against a round shape
Lena examines the flowers, Thorensen finds transport, Shepard takes some samples, Radek finds something lurking in the fishing hut, and Ventress does nothing in #Annih...
something they had picked up in the garden
As the women get away from the fishing hut only to have its occupant come after them, we have visible production equipment, continuity errors, and some great behind-th...