PLOT : ANNIHILATION

PLOT

Lena, a professor of cellular biology, and former U.S Army soldier undergoes a quarantined debriefing. Lomax , her debriefer, questions her about her experiences during what they believe to be a period of months when Lena was on an expedition - but Lena reports that the expedition took a much shorter time. Lena appears to be the only survivor.

Trailer(s): Annihilation

Lena's husband, Kane, returned without warning to their home after being missing on amilitary mission for nearly a year. He remembers nothing about the mission or how he got in the house, and immediately becomes very ill. A government security force intercepts and takes custody of Lena and Kane on the way to the hospital. The security force takes the two to a research compound on the edge of an anomalous region of land , which the compounds psychologist Dr. Ventress calls "Area X" or the "shimmer", and Kane falls into a coma. Ventress reveals that many research teams, including one with Kane, ventured into Area X, but he is the first person from aany of the teams that has ever returned. Lena decides to join Ventress on a new team to penetrate Area X in hopes of finding a way to heal Kane, though she does not tell the rest of the team that Kane is her husband.

The other members of the team are Josie, a Physicist, Anya, a paramedic and Cass, a surveyor and geologist. The expedition immediately encounters inexplicable challenges. Guidance technology fails, the team forgets large periods of time, and a mutated alligator attacks Josie as the group gathers biological samples. The alligator endures multiple rifle shots before Lena finishes it off. Other forms of life in the Area X ecosystem display strange mutations. At an abandoned military base, the team discovers evidence of Kane's expedition. Video on a memory card shows Kane cutting open a living expedition member to reveal that his intestines are motile. That night, the base's perimeter fence is torn open as Ventress and Lena stand guard. A mutated bear attacks and drags Cass away, an event unseen by Josie and Anya.

Lena in the movieAnnihilation

As the team continues toward a lighthouse at the center ofArea X, Lena finds Cass' body and other hybrid plants and animals. The group discovers a town filled with human-shaped plants, and Josie hypothesizes that the Area X is acting as a genetic prism, distorting and refracting the DNA of the organisms living within. The team members realize that they are rapidly mutating as well. That night, a paranoid Anya attacks and restrains Lena, Josie, and Ventress. She has discovered that Kane was Lena's husband, and she accusses the group of killing Cass. As Anya threatens the group, Cass is heard screaming for help outside, and Anya runs out to find her. A blind mutant bear enters the house and is revealed to have incorporated DNA from Cass into its own genome, and mimicked her death screams as a lure. The bear kills Anya before Josie kills it.

Ventress leaves Lena and Josie to go to the lighthouse alone. Jolie tells Lena she neither wants to journey further nor fight the force behind Area X, begins to sprout plants from her skin, and vanishes into a crowd of the plant humanoids. Lena reaches the lighthouse, and enters to find an incinerated corpse, a video camera, and a hole in the floor. The footage in the camera shows Kane committing suicide with a white phosphorus grenade after urging an unseen person to find Lena. The other person steps out from behind the camera, revealing that it is Kane's own doppelganger.

Embarking towards Area X

Lena descends into the hole and finds Ventress in the chamber below. She tells Lena that the force that created Area X is extraterrestrial, and that it will spread to encompass the entire world in an act of annihilation. Ventress disintegrates into a nebulous structure which absorbs a drop of blood from a cut on Lena's face and creates a humanoid entity that reflects Lena's every motion. After struggling with the entity, it suddenly transforms into an identical copy of her. Lena manages to exploit its mimicking behaviour and sets an active phosphorus grenade in its hands before fleeing. The creature is set ablaze by the grenade and while initially unresponsive to the flame, it eventually begins writhing in agony and eventually stumbles back in the hole as the flames engulf the lighthouse. The various constructions in the surrounding area collapses just as the lighthouse does, and the shimmer fades away.

Lena's debriefing concludes. She speculates that the effect in Area X was not  destroying life within, but "making  something new". Lomax confirms that Area X has has disappeared. Lena reunites with "Kane", who has recovered rapidly with the disappearance of Area X. She asks him whether he is the real Kane, to which he replies,"I don't think so". He then asks her if she is  the real Lena, to which she does not respond. The two embrace as their irises shimmer and shift in color.

   

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