When this happens, it becomes a nightmare. Its creepy and massive, and when it’s growling or roaring, it actually mimics the woman’s voice it killed earlier, which simultaneously attracts them to the bear and makes them fear it. Real bears are a scary thing, but this bear is even more terrifying, as it has all these heightened qualities that makes it more freighting. It’s also distorted in size, is exceptionally strong and difficult to kill. When things don’t have a definable face, like the mirror dogglengander in the lighthouse, it takes away the humanity of the creature, even though it resembles something familiar to us. The bear doesn’t seem to have a face, and its whole body is full of holes, in fact, and it could be blind. I find the bear especially disturbing based on its appearance, and the fact that it has absorbed the womens voice after it killed her. The bear doesn’t need to necessarily go out of its way to find its prey, as the voice draws its prey towards them. It also moves so slowly, but deliberately, like a tank, something that just keeps coming that you can’t stop. Its is totally hunting the group, yet it methods of attacking are deceptive, as it seems to attack for no particular reason. It’s a conflict for the people who hear it, they are terrified of the bear, yet they keep hearing their friends voice and it draws towards the bear it’s almost like a magnet. She is now part of that bear, as it took her voice, which is a very human quality. Its creepy and massive, and when it’s growling or roaring, it’s actually mimics the woman’s voice it killed earlier, which simultaneously attracts them to the bear and makes them fear it. It’s also distorted in size, is exceptionally strong and difficult to kill.Real bears are a scary thing, but this bear even more terrifying, as it has all these heightened qualities that makes it more freighting. The bear doesn’t seem to have a face, and its whole body is full of holes, in fact, it could be blind. It's an imperfect, but wildly original sci-fi film that still deserves attention.I find the bear especially disturbing based on its appearance, and the fact that it has absorbed the womens voice after it killed her. It's wildly original, and damn it all it takes risks and we need that in our sci-fi. I really can't deny I was genuinely intrigued the whole way through, and there were some scenes (especially one with a bear) that I was completely gripped by. There is an amazing dreamlike quality captured both in the visuals and the narrative that really is amazing. One moment it'll be disturbing and awful, the next it will be amazing and dreamlike, and that's kind of the point. But on the other hand, god damn is it beautiful and spooky and horrifying and wonderful and just so much. It's weird choices like that which I can't ignore and keep this movie from perfection. To the latter, we know from the get-go that Natalie Portman is the only survivor of the expedition through a narrative through line of her telling this story to scientists, which does dissolve some of the tension. There's some weird pacing choices, sometimes for the better making you feel as disjointed as the characters and not knowing what to expect, but other times there are moments that seem to drag in weird ways or weird bits of explanation. Starting as a moody sci-fi and taking turns into horror and ending in a realm akin to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Annihilation is a weird journey.
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