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Annihilation is a must-see for sci-fi fans

Does Oblivion reflect the difference between Eastern and Western sci-fi aesthetics?

By Zheng toPublished 3 years ago 3 min read

"Annihilate" is a column and three system won is science fiction world of Hugo award of the Nobel Prize for literature works, it is worth mentioning that if not annihilate, experience three awards, one year before because annihilation was beaten three body of Hugo award, but this book almost at home without what flutter, in later made into a film is no fame, In the end, it just fades out in China, and is even available for free on all major video websites without any members. As a hardcore science fiction fan, xiaobian summarizes the reason for this. In fact, this film really reflects the aesthetic differences between east and West for science fiction.

First to introduce the main content of the film, the film tells a mysterious meteorites from outer space to hit the west coast of the United States a lighthouse, after the lighthouse centered appeared a magical substance, the substance as a huge bubble, will constantly change, humans can't see a bubble inside, then sent the army into, But no matter how many people there will be no return to send signal is spread out in the bubble, our Japanese appeared, this time her husband was sent into the bubble, the results finally only her husband, a man came out, but her husband although out, actually has the heavy disease, was about to die, the Japanese is also a scientist, she in order to save her husband, She applied to enter the bubble with the next team. After entering the bubble, she and her companions kept marching towards the lighthouse. On the way, she found the place where her husband's army was stationed at that time.

They also found his fingerprints have been flowing, they found a shark teeth of the crocodile, they continued to advance to the lighthouse, after one of them has been eaten by a bear, results in the next day they met a and the teammate voice the same bear, they have killed the bear, and move on, And then you see the trees with the human shapes, and a biologist comes out, and she guesses that the bubbles reflect not only sunlight, but signals, and even human DNA, so everything here is mixing with each other.

Finally she successfully reached the lighthouse, in which she passed the camera to know her husband had died in the lighthouse, outside the husband is the lighthouse copy the dummies, she also met with the situation at that time, her husband, the lighthouse in the mysterious substance copying a have no face, it has to learn Japanese movement, along with learning, It became the appearance of the Japanese, she escaped with grenades killed replicators, replicators with the torch lighthouse burned, leading to the disappearance of the big bubble, she told the story here, with the disappearance of the bubble male also miraculously recovered, finally she asked: "Are you my husband?" Male master did not answer, coldly said: "you or my wife?" Two people held together, finally the director also said the men to perform the suicide mission, the original is she derailed, men know after the choice to go into the bubble.

The interpretation of the movie is that aliens luring people into the lighthouse through this magical substance, copied them, and then returned to life, lurking among humans.

Perhaps many audience to ask, this actually speak something and small make up also said very helpless, if may also directly go to the cinema no small make up to say clear, in the film is full of magic mirror, it is to let people unthinkable, finally feeling just pretend bility is very high, but this is really a western concept of science fiction, western science group is mainly the elderly and middle-aged, They for this kind of human nature as the main film prefer, as far as the principle of the more simple, the better, the effect of the more mysterious, the better, best, combined with the aliens, but China's science community for young people, mostly about human nature is interested in film they haven't to that age, they prefer is thick science fiction style of work, perhaps with space travel, Therefore, such an American science fiction film can be said to have almost no audience in China, but we can not say that they shot bad, after all, this work is very scientific basis, but also very meaningful.

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