A beautiful and excellent cosmic horror film. To many people annihilation can be confusing but it does talk about self-destruction, mutation, cancer and duplication. I enjoyed this film a lot because it kept me interested about what is the 'alien' of the film. In most cosmic horror films the aliens normally want something from us or wish to destroy us. The alien in this wanted neither, instead it was creating a world in its own image by copying or duplicating everything while also mutating life as well.
Why this movie bombed in box office is beyond me. The way it uses the music and colors to truly bring the movie to life gives u a sense of wonder, curiosity but also fear of the unknown or a fear of something that we can't explain even with modern day science. Its films like these that make me want to explore the unknown more but to also have respect for and fear it because we can't explain everything that we see because sometimes there are things in this world that can't be explained.
Cosmic films like these are entertaining to me and sometimes after I watch them I always question about our own place in the universe but I respect it more because sometimes the unknown can be beautiful as it is deadly.
Some scientific facts in sci-fi films can be accurate or inaccurate but that's y we have to ask questions to better understand the unknown but bulk of the time the unknown is just that; unknown. Something we can't explain might not want to be explained and we can't force that onto ourselves for trying to explain an unknown force or entity for it can drive some people mad, that's y I believe its best to take it slow and let the unknown speak for itself and we must wait patiently for an answer.