Annihilation (2018) Ending Alien Scene Part 2 | HD

One of my favorite scenes from a movie this year. My jaw was dropped the whole time. Plus amazing soundtrack.

[wordshock]

What’s scary about the mimic is, it’ll copy all of Lena’s actions apart from stepping backward. When Lena tries to step back, the mimic steps forward. Eep

[msfritz]

You can see that the entity is as confused as Lena. They simply cannot comprehend each other. Really puts to perspective how we think about intelligent alien life; we expect them to be some slightly weird humanoids, living on an Earth-like planet, that we can make contact with. But what if we finally meet them, and they're just something so different and _alien_ we cannot possibly understand?

[rkgk]

The score in this part of the film is so unsettling.

[jeffsilvey]

The music is so creepy and beautiful at the same time my god

[flyingpotatoe]

This is the only purely scary scene I’ve watched in my life that doesn’t contain weapons and gore

[Veratheprettiest]

A small detail but I found it interesting how when Natalie picked up the grenade, the creature followed her to the ground but didn't try to pick it up itself. And when she made a move to pass the grenade to it, rather than making the same motion, it turned its hand over as if to receive it. A very human-like gesture in my opinion.

[JamesL]

Just a theory, but Who else thinks the Mimic burned everything down on purpose, When Lena and the mimic touched, maybe the mimic got a piece of her consciousness. Lena wanted to destroy everything so the mimic understood her and followed orders.

[skinfluithero]

I love how the being pushes into her with equal force as she’s pushing back. It’s like she’s always been the one in her own way.

[seeingdragons]

it was genius having Sonoya Mizuno play the alien in this scene. Her natural grace turned the scene from a battle into a dance.

[Filippirgos]

Shame more people don't know for this masterpiece...
This is what movies should be man, intriguing

[bigmelty]

The music makes this entire scene. It hits a part of me I didn't know existed. I can't stay away, I keep coming back

[electriclightsentertainmen]

In the movie, you get a better understanding that things are merging, fusing, even cloning like In this scene. I hear a lot of people think the alien is mimicking Lena, but I think it's closer to the fact, that it is "running" off or, it's not trying to mimic her, but rather it's brain is "listening" to hers, whatever she thinks, it does because it almost doesn't have a brain of it's own. When Lena saw it, she attacked it, and that's why it attacked back. Because when Lena thought "Attack" that's what it began to think. I don't believe for a second, that it was watching what she was doing, and then trying to mimic. After it slaps her down, it turns around, because that's what Lena's brain did, but Lena's brain didn't think to fall. However it did still have a mind of it's own, and still trying to listen to her brain waves, it laid next to her. I think as Lena began to understand this, she thought to go back into the hole, and burn it. And as she thought it, the alien did to, but being weaker then her, it's brain unable to think for itself, did exactly that.

[e_mmmme]

It actually makes sense for me.
The Alien had never seen fire before, and once he learns how burning works and tries to replicate it for the first time, he ultimately lets it destroy him :v

[IamSpacedad]

The alien's face forming with a look of understanding and pity for Lena always gets me. The alien wasn't fooled - it understood the pain Lena was going through and the pain being caused by the shimmer. It took the fire from the grenade and amplified it, destroying the shimmer in an act of compassion.

[AlchemistTongueDrums]

At 00:11 this shot always struck me as very interesting...the mimic is NOT knocked out, yet it appears to observe Natalie Portman's character and THEN get down on the ground with her....to me that has to mean that it's not just a pure mimic. It actually had some budding agency and sentience or intelligence and might simply be attempting to communicate.

[LionDragonFilms]

This is a four dimensional being trying to make three dimensional beings understand him. The floating shifting mass in part one is its "body" as seen by a three dimensional being, that is a constantly shifting mass that you can look through with geometric patterns. You can see some sort of pentagon which you will recognize as the star that absorbed her blood, and how it constantly shifts, this floating mass resembles a rotating Tesseract, one of the most known 4d shapes in our 3d dimension. It disappears and reappears, as time and space don't bind him, and that's why time is also affected in the shimmer. The alien has some sort of control over gravity as it is able to pull one drop of blood from her, once it absorbs the blood it can copy and understand the shape of the 3d being and mimic them in an effort to communicate, and in order to avoid the uncanny valley effect it ends almost cloning her in the end.


The movie is all about a 4th dimensional being arriving at earth and trying to merge the 3d dimension with the 4d dimension, this is done just in an effort to communicate, but our world is being "consumed / destroyed" in the process. This reminds me of Lovecraft lore and how the "innocent" actions of the Old Gods affect us in creepy and bizarre ways, but in their eyes they are doing nothing wrong, just something very basic and natural in their dimension; but could drive any man insane from the sudden incomprehensible realization of what they are looking at.

[ofskittlez]

This whole scene is just incredible. You have the word "Annihilation", and then not a single spoken word for several minutes. The movie does what it needs to do with just visuals and otherworldly music.

[smoozerish]

one of the coolest most intelligent sci-fi movies I've seen in a long long

[abstractedaway]

4:34 This was so sad and powerful. Whether the alien meant to be malignant or not, it seemed to be internalizing, maybe even comprehending Lena's grief here. If it was only self-destructing, it needn't have had a moment relating what it was doing to Kane.

[PardonMeTrevor]

I read the book when it first came out and secretly held high hopes that the movie would be half as good. This scene absolutely floored me. The whole movie did, but this scene really stuck with me. It expressed a lot of what I was struggling with about depression. Like you, I was pretty much slackjawed.