• ProfessorScience@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I just watched Neon Genesis Evangellion. WTF at the end of the series. Then saw there was a later movie with the “real” end. Which was also WTF.

    • LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Literally the first thing on my mind when I saw this thread! I needed some time to process what happened after seeing End of Evangelion.

  • nudny ekscentryk@szmer.info
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    2 years ago

    2014 Predestination, you can’t really say anything about this film and not spoil it. well perhaps except Ethan Hawke and Sarah Snook starring in it

    • Frater Mus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 years ago

      The book is better IMO (other than no Portman :-) and one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever read. Highly recommended.

        • Frater Mus@lemmy.sdf.org
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          2 years ago

          Yes, I read them all the same week (bad weather kept me inside). Yesterday I read the Silo Stories (3?) in his Machine Learning anthology. I liked the first book and the short stories the best.

    • canthidium@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      It’s probably my favorite scifi movie that made me really feel something. I think you can find a lot to relate to, grief, depression, loss. I really think the main theme is self destruction, specifically resulting from some kind of trauma. Everyone had their own issues and they were all basically destroying themselves and finding solace in the shimmer.

      • Uranium 🟩@sh.itjust.works
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        2 years ago

        Quite literally self ‘Annihilation’, I think the shimmer itself is more analogous to cancer (continuously expanding, with random distorted outcomes, most of which are agressive towards anything untainted by the shimmer), but fundamentally each of the characters are there for their own different reasons for self-destruction with the hopes that it benefits others, as they effectively know it’s a suicide mission).

        The bit that I cannot recall if it was explained is why did the special ops guy go if he had a loving wife at home; what was his reason for self destruction?

        • canthidium@lemmy.world
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          2 years ago

          The bit that I cannot recall if it was explained is why did the special ops guy go if he had a loving wife at home; what was his reason for self destruction?

          I don’t remember an explanation for it aside from it was just his mission as part of being in the military. But he didn’t really have a “loving” wife at home. She cheated on him. Maybe he knew and volunteered for the mission because his marriage was over.

    • cloudless@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      The movie was about cancer? Where did you read that?! The movie is the closest movie approximation of the book Alex Garland could make, considering how dense and intertwined the whole Southern Reach Trilogy is.

        • cloudless@lemmy.ml
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          2 years ago

          Sorry if my question sounded like an attack 😬 Vandermeer’s writing style deliberately opens his work to different interpretations and it’s rather interesting to see the same happening with this movie adaptation. Another interesting angle I’ve read is environmental: either in a way that Area X is return to nature (purification) or it’s the opposite (our own destruction of the planet) Getting ready to re-read the whole trilogy, will definitely include this guy’s cancer perspective as I am going through to see how it fits.

    • canthidium@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      I absolutely love Yorgos Lanthimos’ movies. Killing of a Sacred Deer is probably my favorite. His movies just have this uneasyness that really makes you feel…off watching them.

  • ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    EXistenZ - The final question “Are we still in the game?” really summarized the first watch experience. You have no clue what’s going on anymore by that point. Same goes for Total Recall by the way - that movie also has you guessing what’s real and what isn’t throughout 90% of the runtime.

    • caseinpoint@reddthat.com
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      2 years ago

      I can’t remember when, but I know I saw EXistenZ on HBO somewhere. I first saw it from the middle of the movie and thought “If I watch this from the beginning I might understand it.” Turns out watching it again didn’t help, but I watched it again anyway. It was sort of like a fascinating disaster.

      Kudos to the creators of that film. I don’t think I could have come up with that primis.

      • electrorocket@lemmy.ml
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        2 years ago

        I watched it twice in a row the first time I watched it too. I think it helped, but it’s still had to watch it a third time.

      • lemmyshmemmy@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        Yeah, I was surprised nobody mentioned it before me. I think part of it is how they ease you into it.

        You go from thinking “oh this is some nice cinematography, seems like they’ll do some interesting character development” to suddenly realizing… well I’m not even sure how to explain it. It gets weird.

        • ProfezzorDarke@feddit.de
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          2 years ago

          It had a weird fandom as well. All you get to see is a cult easing the protagonists into their cult stuff, but some people were full “yeah, female empowerment!” I mean, I get it, but they basically fell for the cult rethoric.

    • lps2@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      Really anything by David Lynch including the old PlayStation commercials