The intellectual fantastic thriller "annihilation" (18+) was released in 2018 and remembered the audience an unusual plot. The tape did not hit the big screen, and the Studio Paramount sold the rights to it Netflix. The article is prepared by the OKKO online cinema (new users are available for 1 ruble, conditions).
The history of creating the idea of the film "Annigilation"
The basis for the tape was the novel "Southern Limit" of the American Writer Jeff Vandermer. The film "Annigilation" was removed based on this work, but director Alex Golde reworked the plot so that the metaphoricity of what was happening on the screen exceeded the inner meaning of the original source.The flicker zone is a space where the laws of nature are violated. Such anomalies were described by the Brothers Strugatsky in the Picnic on the side of the sidelines and Stanislav Lem in Solaris. However, Vandermer and Garland presented the history of a person's collision with an unknown in the new world.
Flicker is not just expanding, exciting new territories, but changes like a disease, the essence of people and things. If the boundaries of the change zone are invisible, then closer to the center they are unexpected and worse.
As a result, people, as if after severe illness, cease to be people, and things that are destructive exposure lose the original purpose.
Short description of the story of the movie
The ribbon action unfolds on the US coast, where a meteorite fell out of 3 years before the events described. An abnormal zone appeared around the fall site, similar to a transfusion bubble, which slowly expands. Anomaly dubbed flicker and began to study. None of the expeditions sent to the zone returned.
A year ago, the Kane's soldier went into flicker in one of the groups. Once his wife Lina, a biologist who studies cancer, suddenly finds her husband at home.
Kane cannot explain where he was and as the only one was able to return. He becomes bad. Lina and Kane go to the hospital, but the car is hampered by the military and take away both in a closed institution. Kane falls into intensive care.
In the institution, the psychologist Ventress prepares a new expedition to flicker, and Lina joins it. As part of a group of exclusively women.
The group enters the flicker and discovers that there is no connection inside the bubble. Women face mutants: deer, whose horns bloomed flowers, crocodile albinos with two rows of teeth, human remains, of which the colony of lichens. The members of the group members also change.
The task of scientists becomes survival.
Home Idea and Meaning
There are 2 versions about the fact that they wanted to convey to the viewer the creators of the film:- The flicker zone is an allegorical image of a cancer tumor, which, as a bubble, grow up and absorbs healthy cells. Transfiguration and death of living beings are visualization of changes in the body affected by a dangerous disease.
- Another point of view - the film tells about self-destruction. All participants in the group suffer from psychological problems: a shameful marriage, a tendency to suicide, losing themselves because of his daughter's death, loneliness. The motive for a hike into flicker is not a scientific interest, but a sense of meaningless life.
Acting
Directors were invited to shoot Hollywood stars.
Natalie Portman
Furnished the role of Lina in the film.
American actress was born in 1981 in Jerusalem. At 3 years, together with parents moved to the United States. Kinebut was the role in the militant "Leon" (1994). The best work of the actress is the role of the ballerina in the film "Black Swan" (2010), for which she received the Golden Globe and Oscar award.
Portman protects animal rights and from 8 years is vegetarian.
Oscar Isaac
In the tape played Kane.
The American actor appeared in 1979 in Guatemala. As a child, he moved with his family in Miami. At school, I loved to have fun with funny outhes, for which it was excluded from it.
The creative success of Isaac was the role in the tragicomedy "inside Lewis Davis" (2013). For it, he was nominated for the Golden Globe Prize, Saturn and Empire. In 2016, the Actor entered the list of 100 most influential people in the world according to Time magazine.
Jennifer Jason Lie
Created a ventress image in the picture.American actress was born in 1962 in California. In 1989, Harper's Bazaar magazine included a dozen most beautiful US women. The best work of the actress is the role in the Ribbon "Distivative G8" (2015), for which the nominations on BAFTA, Golden Globe and Oscar, was awarded.
Tessa Thompson
Josie played in the tape.
The American actress was born in 1983 in Los Angeles. The first role in the big cinema - the thriller "When a stranger calls" (2006). The popularity of the actress has won after the film "Tor: Ragnarec" (2017).
Film production
In the ribbon, the heroes fall into a strange place, where other laws of nature.How to shoot
Before the film crew was the task of creating 2 worlds, familiar and modified. For the first, they decided not to focus on the nuances. The interrogation room looks like it is unclear where it is located - the hospital, prison, a military building. The base of the organization "Southern Limit" is similar to the Polar Scientific Station. The house of Lina and Kane is the same as thousands of similar private houses.
The second world is filled with bright details. This is a bear mutant with a skull instead of a muzzle, shrubs in the form of human figures, trees similar to ice sculptures, etc.
Places and locations: Decoration design
Preparation for filming took 3 months.
Forest scenes were captured in the UK, in Windsor Park, owned by the royal family.
Half-powered fishing hut found in Louisiana. In the design of the landscape around it, mutating sunflowers and chamomile from the alienation zones near Chernobyl and Fukushima were used.
To create an outflow on the wall of the military base, specialists had to be explored, as they act on the environment, crystalline growths, mucus and larvae.
Similar to the corals formations on the lighthouse were drawn on the computer, then carved out of the foam and coated with polyurethane. The authors were inspired by the view of the frozen lighthouse on Lake Michigan.
Interesting Facts
The manufacture of the tape was not without curious stories:- Oscar Aizek simultaneously with shooting in "annihilation" worked in the tape "Star Wars: Last Jedi", which was filmed in the next pavilion. Sometimes he had to work 2 shifts in a row on 2 sites.
- Natalie Portman declared that it would not work in terrible paintings. She violated the promise twice, starring in the Black Swan and In Annihlation.
- For Oscar Aisek "Annihilation" - the second film Alex Gland, in which he plays with Sona Mizuno.
Reviews and critics
The tape received a large number of positive reviews of viewers and reviews from critics. Both those and others mark the mysteriousness of what is happening on the screen, deep psychologically subtext, fascinating video sequence.
Many compared "annihilation" with the films "Stalker" and "Something". Film critic Alexander Trofimov defeated her picture at home, as the film was shot beautiful and need to be seen in the cinema.
In a few negative reviews, respondents pay attention to the slow development of action, excessive symbolism, lack of keys for the unambiguous interpretation of the final.