Annihilation ENDING EXPLAINED - Details You Missed!

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Published 2018-03-01
Annihilation (2018) movie explained! What does the ending of Annihilation mean? What is the Shimmer, and what happened in the lighthouse scene? What is the film's alternate ending, and how does the story differ from the book? Erik Voss breaks down the final sequence of Annihilation and explains the deeper meaning of the movie's extended metaphor. How does director Alex Garland build on the sci-fi concepts he laid out in Ex Machina (2014)? Is Natalie Portman's character a secret imposter?

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All Comments (21)
  • @Bilal_is_joking
    Friend: You like liked this movie? Me: i don't know Friend: did you understand this movie? Me: i don't know
  • @dianacardy336
    This movie feels just like you’re waking up from a dream that you can’t describe and you try to recall everything you still know
  • @kkzz9315
    The deer is with its doppleganer
  • @RbsnPinheiro
    My only question is how the hell the battery on the camera lasted that long?
  • @Ma1dere
    ENDING EXPLAINED doesn't explain the ending
  • @billpealer
    Why does no one mention than the tattoo on Portman's arm is actually from the right arm of Rodriguez's character? Portman's character does not have a tat in the beginning.
  • @SnakedTube
    Right after they kill the mutated aligator they immediately get on boats to cross the river.. I mean there can't be any more of them right..? It was probably the safest option.. X-D
  • @Dr.Gortman
    I don’t know if I was the only one, but the Bear absolutely terrified me. I don’t scare easily, but wow, this movie became a horror film at that point.
  • @ashyel88
    the comments are more informative than the video 😅
  • @m19petersen
    The metaphorical ending to the movie is the literal ending. We are not the same people we were yesterday. We adapt, mutate, and absorb our surroundings. We are the shimmer, we are the alien and we are all one person, but billions of individuals.
  • @TheVerucAssault
    In the flash grenade video at the lighthouse, the Kane that killed himself all the sudden had a Southern twang in his dialect. That was the oddest thing about everything lol.
  • @Toddler.Titles
    They were clones from the moment they “awoke and couldn’t remember how long they had been there” but their camp site seemed to have been used for a long while. Basically the shimmer keeps cloning them over and over and each clone, like a photo copy, is less and less like the original adding influences from the environment inside the shimmer. So the Lena we meet inside the shimmer is say Lena clone 1.... then we see the creation of Lena clone 2, each clone is more susceptible to changing/transforming. The original humans probably died pretty early after entering the shimmer.
  • @BassInTheTrunk
    The water in the glass wasn't mutating, cause water doesn't have DNA. That's just what happens to water on glass
  • @roffe8751
    What baffles me the most is that they had a perfect watch tower, yet decide to place the look-out on ground level. Imagine instead standing just outside the room where the others were sleeping and looking down with the night vision Googles. They would have all the time in the world to arm up and shoot the bear if it decided to escalate the watch Tower’s narrow passages.
  • @vollsticks
    Dr. Ventress doesn't have any eyes at first when she's in the heart of the shimmer, in the clone incubator thing, right? I didn't imagine that? So is it a Ventress clone that hasn't quite completed itself?
  • @SoloCertified
    one question everyone keeps forgetting. how did kanes clone end up in lenas house??