IMDb plot summary: A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
Directed by Alex Garland. Starring Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Oscar Isaac, and Tessa Thompson.
This is an astonishingly great movie. Alex Garland’s previously film Ex Machina was a clever and thoughtful piece as well, but this one is a little less explained and relies a little more heavily on psychological and emotional cinematic language, and the result is incredible. It’s full of haunting imagery and sounds/music, as well as some dramatic choreography that is simultaneously terrifying and beautiful. And I love how many great, fleshed out female characters there are. Sci fi has such a sad lack of them, and here all our five protagonists are all women and passing the heck out of the Bechdel test and it’s great. The themes of depression and self-destruction are conveyed in such a compelling, powerful way -- I’m still thinking about this film several days after having seen it.
How it entered my chart:
Annihilation > Avengers: Age of Ultron
Annihilation > An American Werewolf in London
Annihilation > Vertigo
Annihilation < Amahl and the Night Visitors
Annihilation > Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Annihilation > The Kindergarten Teacher
Annihilation < The Lego Movie
Annihilation > A Simple Plan
Annihilation > (500) Days of Summer
Annihilation > Once
Annihilation > Pirate Radio
Annihilation > Stranger Than Fiction
Final spot: #310 out of 3049.
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