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watching it with fascination, hypnotised
Lena finds camcorder footage of the previous expedition, and in the script we see a lot more of what happened to them, in #Annihilation minute 87.
her husband spoke. he was repeating something
From Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf to Aristotle to the Tao, from infant recognition of self to depersonalization, and from Kane to Kane to Lena, #Annihilation minute 88.
when life sank down for a moment
One Kane sits contemplating his self, another Kane waits out of frame to be revealed, and we begin to explore the Jungian shadow self in #Annihilation minute 89.
all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be
From Cain & Abel to phosphorous grenades, the birth of elements within stars to Buddha on a lotus flower, Kane burns, Lena watches, and others linger nearby in #Annihi...
this core of darkness could go anywhere
In the script, Lena finds strange living sculptures beneath the lighthouse, flashback to the biologist finding the living writing in the tower in the novel; in the fil...
there was always a woman dying of cancer even here
An eyeless Dr Ventress quotes Samuel Beckett, and Lena enters the alien chamber in #Annihilation minute 92.
all the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated
Beneath the lighthouse, Ventress (as solificatio, as death's head, as the sun) speaks for the last time as the shimmer takes over. #Annihilation minute 93.
a wedge-shaped core of darkness
Ventress explodes into living light and Lena looks on, in #Annihilation minute 94.
in the midst of chaos there was shape; this eternal passing and flowing
As Lena stares into the alien light in #Annihilation minute 95, we delve into Ballardian fiction, the history of fractal geometry, plus Groundhog Day and masculine vs ...
and it seemed to her like her own eyes meeting her own eyes
We start to delve into details from the second #SouthernReach novel, #Authority, as the mandelbulb transforms into a featureless humanoid and Lena reacts violently in ...
stroking with its silver fingers some sealed vessel in her brain whose bursting would flood her with delight
The dance between Lena and the Humanoid begins, Doctor Who interrupts, and it's all very straightforward in #Annihilation minute 97.
their eyes met for a second; but they did not want to speak to each other
Lena strikes the Humanoid, the Humanoid strikes Lena, Lena tries to escape, the Humanoid pins her against the door, and we look at choreographer Bobbi Jene Smith and t...
making the weight fall in a different direction
Lena and the Humanoid fall to the floor in Annihilation minute 99.
it brought them into sympathy momentarily
Lena and the Humanoid get up and face one another; depression, self, and suffering; #Annihilation minute 100.
but now and again we rise to the surface
The Humanoid becomes Lena but Lena tricks it into destroying itself in Annihilation minute 101.
giving one last look at it over her shoulder, already the past
from goblin market to a burning lighthouse, Lena exits and the Humanoid turns to Kane's burned body in Annihilation minute 102.
searching as she alone could search into her mind and her heart
Lena leaves, the Biologist finds herself in an empty lot, and the Humanoid is left behind to burn. Annihilation minute 103.
not weighed down with all the greatness of his labours and the sorrows of the world
We look at the biologist's relationship with her husband in the novel as Lena walks away from the burning lighthouse and collapsing crystalline trees. #Annihilation mi...
saying quite casually and naturally what had been in her mind
As Lomax questions Lena, we start to look at what happened to the biologist in the novels. #Annihilation minute 105.
and again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist
Lomax questions Lena and we explore more of what happened to the biologist in Annihilation minute 106.
from the lake of one's being, a mist, a bride to meet her lover
Lena goes to see Kane, the biologist finds a mutation, the lighthouse keeper records his daily goings on. Annihilation minute 107.
they were both wild creatures now
Saul experiences something strange in the local bar, Lena and Kane question one another, and the Biologist explores the island. Annihilation minute 108.
how once the looking glass had held a face, had held a world hollowed out in which a figure turned
Saul's lighthouse discovery, Lena's bright eyes, and the Biologist's owl friend. Annihilation minute 109.
the place was gone to rack and ruin
The above-the-line credits continue, Saul's transformation continues, the biologist's last will and testament continues. And we look at the environmentalist messaging ...
as if the link that usually bound things together had been cut
A different transformation comes over Saul. The above-the-line credits and the Biologist's last will and testament conclude. Annihilation minute 111.
impossible to resist the strange intimation
The credits roll and we look back on how Garland adapted the the story like a dream. Annihilation minute 112.
that good triumphs, happiness prevails, order rules
The credits roll and we make an effort to tie Garland's themes into Vandermeer's. Annihilation minute 113.
it will end, it will end, she said
as the credits roll, we take one last look at climate change. annihilation minute 114.
and that's the end
the credits end, the script ends, and finally our host speaks of himself. annihilation minute 115. find links to my other shows at http://www.lemmingdrops.com/ and ...
