Science fiction that makes you think. This is a slow-paced film that pulls you step-by-step into the world of the shimmer. Natalie Portman is the main focus and it is very much her character's story. While not on the same level as Arrival, Annihilation shares that film's desire to keep the aliens alien, with their motivations and technology left unexplained.
The characters, during the course of the film, have their own take on what is going on (the physicist and the refraction explanation), but I think this should be seen as a human in the situation explaining thing in terms they understand rather than as 'the explanation' of what is actually happening.
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Science fiction that makes you think. This is a slow-paced film that pulls you step-by-step into the world of the shimmer. Natalie Portman is the main focus and it is very much her character's story. While not on the same level as Arrival, Annihilation shares that film's desire to keep the aliens alien, with their motivations and technology left unexplained.
The characters, during the course of the film, have their own take on what is going on (the physicist and the refraction explanation), but I think this should be seen as a human in the situation explaining thing in terms they understand rather than as 'the explanation' of what is actually happening.