So at what point did the alien take over her body?

So at what point did the alien take over her body?

Any other questions?

but why all women?

It didn't take over her body it made a copy of her and the copy was the one that made it out

okay what point did they switch

Did you even watch the film user?

Why did Anya also tie up Josie? Seemed she was only suspicious of the other two, if anything she should have been trying to get Josie on her side.

Not OP

>watch movie of dead husbands suicide
>see alien/coworker turn into fractals
>fight alien-doppelgänger
>alien obviously dies

Where in the fourth act did the alien escape????
Obviously the concept is the alien DNA is impossible to remove.

yes. I honestly don't know when

why did they remake Stalker but make it shittier?

DESU, I don't understand when they switched either.

The alien rather clearly burned with the lighthouse. Or are my eyes deceiving me and that Alien was supposed to be the main character, like that is what she looked like?

Or did they switched when she was knocked out on the floor and blacked out?

Was the symbolism of the Alien trying to be with the main characters husband symbolizing the fact that the alien thing was actually the main character? Because it wasn't copying their counterpart?

to sell it to women. I literally had to read it for my feminist creative writing class. help

How can you completely miss the point this fucking hard, user? That's not even remotely what happened.

They didn't switch, her DNA just got fucked up like everyone else who went into the shimmer.

Real Portman survived and went back to base. Her eyes were glittering because she never went back to normal from the changes in area x.

She wasn’t sure of anything anymore and was acting out of fear. The hands thing pushed her over the edge.

Replying to myself.
I interpreted the ending as that she had already had the cancer blood inside her, like what was already established in the movie. It's also established that the cancer takes over faster when you accept your fate, aka the tree lady. So she simply accepted that she was the "eve" character in this story that's why her eyes shimmered and changed in the end. She had simply accepted the fact that she is the "eve" to his "Adam".

why did portlan and other girl have same tattoo on arm?

They never switched.

As far as I could tell, Replacement Oscar Isaac was transferring some ideas to her, warning her about something.

Hack writing with a hack payoff. Also, she was an irrational dry addict who snapped.

Why was the book so much different then the movie when both are straight forward?

The real question is what the fuck happened to ventress?

The shimmer acted as a prism. It broke life down into parts but also took parts of life and made them whole again. White is symbolic in the movie and represents when something was being combined. The gator. The deer.
At the end of the movie Lena is dressed all in white. Kaine immolates himself with the white light of a phosphorous grenade. Just like the way Sheppard became a part of the bear Kaine became part of his double. Lena's double dying made it become part of her.

Annihilation.

Every piece of her, utterly destroyed so she could become a vessel for something new.

yeah what the fuck

Huh, interesting... Didn't see it that way.

Pretty thought provoking movie.

That last sentence is an excellent take.

i dunno but that bear scene was kino thats it

The bear wasn't using Sheppard's voice to lure prey. The bear and Sheppard became one. It sought out the team begging for help, found Anya about to harm them, and killed Anya to save them. It then begged the others for help as well. If it was using the voice as a lure then there would be no point when they were right in front of it.

oh my fuck

Then why did it start biting Josie?

>tfw no titty monster gf

I can't deal with this feel much longer.

same hold me

Did it? I don't think she was harmed.

It was in the process of attacking Ventress I believe, and Josie had to unload like 20 rounds into it.
The idea is interesting but I disagree. The bear had already been shown to be a relatively cunning predator, and it just made use of what Josie gave it (fear+dna).

It had its mouth on her before Anya came back and distracted it.

This doesn't entirely make sense to me.

Why would her corpse still be mostly present for Lena to stumble upon if a large part of her dna and consciousness transferred into the bear? Rather, I think animals absorbed a small part of what they ate. Like how deer were shown with foliage instead of antlers.

The bear ate a part of Shepard and gained some of her abilities, such as speech. I think it was hunting them but not necessarily luring them with it's voice.

So cunning it couldn't find them sitting right in front of them? It knew they were there. Lena was even speaking right in front of it. The only other explanation I could come up with is it got a taste for fear itself but I don't think it's as plausible of an explanation.

You post this in every annihilation thread.

My girlfriend and I watched and we both thought how the whole movie had a very female feel to it. Probably why it didn't appeal much to men, because men hate women.

Movies men will never understand

This.

Still can't get over how hard this film shat on Vandermeer's masterpiece. Literally turned it into yet another idiotic 'le alien invasion' film.

Is the trilogy worth a read? From what I gather the first book is only loosely related to the movie.

Yes, very much worth a read that greatly improves with each volume. And yes, the film is a good 80% unrelated material.