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Week4: Annihilation 6 pt.

10/2/2020

 

For this week’s reading of The New Weird topic, I read the Annihilation the novel version. I had always wanted to watch the Annihilation movie since it had released the trailer, but I found it really disappointing how the movie loses a lot of the great details and ideas of the book version, as most of the movies do with the book adaptation. Such as, the story strips down the need of the names, and I found to just concentrate on the experience and the metamorphosis. However, I like how the movie visualizes the well descriptive environment of the story. 


For me, Area X is like a creator god in another world, constantly destroying and reconstructing everything on the earth, but it doesn't have a personality of its own, and it doesn't apply to any moral judgment. There is no good or evil in the hands of creation. When the human race is driven crazy by fear, it doesn’t really matter there. Other than what I thought of Area X, Area X seems to be just a platform for the characters to explore and bring their exploration to the readers. By the setting of characters (unsociable, quiet, obsess with profession, etc), the context of the story, the calm verses vivid sense, the novel builds a really strong attraction for me, and that makes me not want to miss any detail, and follows the biologist to discover the essence behind the phenomenon. 


Another interesting thing of the novel is that the women in this book are not like stereotypical  women. In my opinion, they are more like just real human beings that are diversified by nature.

In most of the stories, compared to men, women are depicted either weak, emotional, or other stereotypical characteristics, which seems unreal to me.

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