Alternative monitoring of popular culture ~ broadly defined ~ in the pursuit of deeper understanding
Monday, March 12, 2018
Annihilation
Alex Garland's phantasm of a film, Annihilation, contains familiar
expedition tropes, a brutal and agonizing attack sequence and stunning
visuals that, unfortunately, spangle more than enlighten. We follow a
team of female scientists and warriors into a piece of coastal U.S.
territory that is being genetically transformed by an extraterrestrial
presence called The Shimmer. Others have ventured in but not one has
returned. The picture poses an interesting paradox -- the benign alien
threat. Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Oscar Isaac star.
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