Annihilation: How the Core Characters Represent the Five Stages of Grief
Adapting the first novel of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy, Annihilation, starring Natalie Portman, Oscar Isaac, and Tessa Thompson, brings a closer visual and narrative look to its source material in a few respects. In the original novel, an expedition team investigates a strange ecological location known as Area X. Previous excursions have provided nearly fruitless, resulting in members going missing or returning completely disoriented, often dying shortly after.
One of the biggest pieces of imagery in Annihilation is cancer. One of the initial shots of the film shows Lena teaching a class in biology at Johns Hopkins University, demonstrating the properties of cancerous cells. Furthermore, Lena cheats on Kane during his military deployment, presumptively eating away at her with guilt. Even Dr. Ventress, terminally ill in her own bout with cancer, enters the Shimmer in search of a great truth.
Sheppard keeps solely focused on the mission for almost her entire time on-screen. As the team reaches Fort Amaya, a nearby military base where the previous expedition team had set up a base camp, Sheppard is unfortunately attacked by a mutated bear, which then uses vocal mimicking of her cries for help to attack the rest of the team.
Josie Struggling with self-harm, Josie appears quite meek compared to the rest of the team. She is the first to be attacked by the wildlife, being pulled underwater by a shark-toothed alligator before Lena and the group manages to save her. Subsequent events show Josie withdrawing out of fear of what the Shimmer is doing to her and the others. The morning following the encounter with the bear, Josie talks with Lena, who informs her that the Shimmer is influencing them biologically.
When her and Lena arrive at the mysterious lighthouse, Ventress discovers a basement area. As Lena enters, she finds Ventress in a very alien-looking place, walled with strange black biological matter. Ventress states to Lena that the being within the lighthouse will grow and consume until it encompasses everything. Not sure of the creature's intentions, or even if it has any, Ventress' answers are unreachable.
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