A great journey within an ambitious and intelligent vision

Rating: 9/10 (14 March 2018)

I love strange films that constantly confirm to me that there are still stories thanks to which cinema can continue to amaze me; while science fiction has always been a genre that I have favored for its ability to push the cinema where other arts can not reach and with time this is only strengthening thanks to the many cutting-edge technologies that are able to make something, that before could only be a dreamed or imagined, almost a reality.
"Annihilation" from this point of view is one of the best examples; a film that succeeds, thanks to an amazing technical and artistic sector, to make credible ideas born from a mind full of imagination and to make, almost completely, tangible theories and affirmations, ranging from physics to biology, from science to astronomy, probably absurd but cinematographically brilliant.
The result is the creation of a microcosm, the one surrounded by the "glow", absolutely fascinating, disturbing and which is very striking for its extremely suggestive aesthetic appearance and for the praiseworthy artistic care of every little detail to be admired in every frame.
Thanks, above all, to the special effects that, despite the reduced budget, amaze the public with extraordinary environments and extremely original creatures, such as the mutated bear that produces the cries of one of the victims that is really something incredibly disturbing and brilliant at the same time, even if its realization, unlike everything else, suffers a bit from the aforementioned relatively low budget.
Unfortunately, the typology of narrative approach prevents a total involvement from the viewer, although this approach has its positive aspects, for example it facilitates the immersion within the science-fiction context that presents numerous quite complex aspects, but they lack a little 'feelings , for this reason I would have preferred that the story be told in a more "classical" way so that it could excite and, in fact, involve more.
At a first glance I do not even think I have understood everything that is said and that is shown but I also believe that the meaning of the film is contained in each of us, like for each film, also because the reading plans are very many, and I do not even know if I will be excited and involved more or less at a second time; but for now I am satisfied with what I have tried looking at it to describe it as a real experience, a journey within an ambitious and intelligent vision that gives the public a series of incredible images, with beautiful colors and lights taken care of by the excellent cinematography, which they won't forget so easily even in a few years.