Lena strikes the Humanoid, the Humanoid strikes Lena, Lena tries to escape, the Humanoid pins her against the door, and we look at choreographer Bobbi Jene Smith and the dance language Gaga, in #Annihilation minute 98.

Annihilation Minute

their eyes met for a second; but they did not want to speak to each other

The dance between Lena and the Humanoid begins, Doctor Who interrupts, and it's all very straightforward in #Annihilation minute 97.

stroking with its silver fingers some sealed vessel in her brain whose bursting would flood her with delight

We start to delve into details from the second #SouthernReach novel, #Authority, as the mandelbulb transforms into a featureless humanoid and Lena reacts violently in #Annihilation minute 96.

and it seemed to her like her own eyes meeting her own eyes

As Lena stares into the alien light in #Annihilation minute 95, we delve into Ballardian fiction, the history of fractal geometry, plus Groundhog Day and masculine vs feminine quests.

in the midst of chaos there was shape; this eternal passing and flowing

Ventress explodes into living light and Lena looks on, in #Annihilation minute 94.

a wedge-shaped core of darkness

Beneath the lighthouse, Ventress (as solificatio, as death's head, as the sun) speaks for the last time as the shimmer takes over. #Annihilation minute 93.

all the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated

An eyeless Dr Ventress quotes Samuel Beckett, and Lena enters the alien chamber in #Annihilation minute 92.

there was always a woman dying of cancer even here

In the script, Lena finds strange living sculptures beneath the lighthouse, flashback to the biologist finding the living writing in the tower in the novel; in the film Lena enters the biomechanical space where a transformed Ventress waits. #Annihilation minute 91.

this core of darkness could go anywhere

From Cain & Abel to phosphorous grenades, the birth of elements within stars to Buddha on a lotus flower, Kane burns, Lena watches, and others linger nearby in #Annihilation minute 90.

all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be

One Kane sits contemplating his self, another Kane waits out of frame to be revealed, and we begin to explore the Jungian shadow self in #Annihilation minute 89.

when life sank down for a moment

From Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf to Aristotle to the Tao, from infant recognition of self to depersonalization, and from Kane to Kane to Lena, #Annihilation minute 88.

her husband spoke. he was repeating something

Lena finds camcorder footage of the previous expedition, and in the script we see a lot more of what happened to them, in #Annihilation minute 87.

watching it with fascination, hypnotised

Lena enters the lighthouse and finds something unexpected in #Annihilation minute 86.

beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep

In the novel, Lena sees a pair of dolphins; in the script, she picks up a skull at the scene of a massacre; in the film she marches past crystalline trees and a makeshift graveyard to reach the lighthouse. #Annihilation minute 85

which curved and welled and broke upon the beach

From Lena's past to her present, alone on the shore, samsara, dukkha, and the crystalline structures that connect us together. Annihilation minute 84.

her horizon seemed to her limitless

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