Pure poetry, a look into one´s mind

Rating: 10/10 (15 March 2018)

Its original, its phenomenal, its poetry and an attempt to articulate emptiness & unknown. I like the way it handles the subconsciousness in landscape, which tells a story of its own, since we humans are born into nature and it is inside us.
The scenery, camera work is genius, dialog makes you think.
I´m of course talking about Andrei Tarkovsky's stalker (1979)
Alex Garland's Annihilation is modernized version of Stalker. Though It has some ideas of its own. Men are changed into women. Of course Americans need to have guns when entering unknown territory. Modernized movie needs to have horror elements and violence. There must be blood and screaming. There must sex. There must be explaining. Any how the scenery is quite same, not too exotic, not too boring. It is a landscape without humans where plants and trees grow wild. The base and buildings resemble Ukrainian ghost town Pripyat. I think thats where Garland got his ideas.
You like it, if you like Tarkovsky. If not, don´t watch, this is not amusement park ride.