Annihilation premiered on February 23, 2018 in theaters in the United States, for the rest of the world is only available on Netflix online movie platform, they will wonder why other countries will not have the privilege of seeing it in the great screen? And the answer is that the study Skydance Media determined that it is not suitable for commercial cinema, or for all types of audience because it is deep and complicated to understand, even the official synopsis gives this alert. It is specially made to challenge the adult audience to make an exhaustive psychological analysis of the characters and discuss an open ending.

It is the cinematographic adaptation of the book by Jeff VanderMeer with the same name, the first part of a trilogy composed of the works: annihilation, authority and acceptance. Directed and script by Alex Garland known to write 28 Days Later in 2002 and direct Ex Machina in 2015.

The story is told from the point of view of Lena (Natalie Portman), a biologist specializing in the study of cells and the behavior of viruses, the wife of a soldier who died on a secret mission. She is contacted by the US military high command to give details about the death of her husband, she is informed that the mission to which her husband was sent was suicidal, eleven groups of military soldiers were sent to a place of which not even one The person had returned alive.

Inquiring the respect, he learns that everything happened since a meteorite fell on the ground, specifically in a lighthouse on the coast, as a result of which a phenomenon arose in that area, which they called "the glow", a refractory aura of light similar to a prism, enter it and reach the lighthouse to investigate it was the mission. Lena as a biologist and military is included in the next dangerous expedition to the glow with four other women, all have in common that they are not afraid of losing their lives and they know that it is almost a death sentence to enter.

It evokes mixed feelings in an emotional struggle, touches on issues such as morality, marriage and betrayal as determining factors in a decision and its consequences. The self-destruction in people, of how we all have self-destructive behaviors and we look for external culprits to justify them, without realizing that we ourselves cause self annihilation.

It is a film difficult to understand, advanced, abstract and a challenge to our intelligence. All the details have a reason for being, they have parables such as "from death comes life, from destruction arises creation". It is a daring and existentialist project, a challenge to understand its background.

It is an alternate action film, that is, it goes from end to beginning alternating sequences of time to explain the past or origin of events, it is fresh that keeps the viewer in suspense, no scene is predictable. The script leads us to discover mysteries, with episodes of terror in a dramatic argument.

Revitalizes the survival horror genre in a novel concept starring a squad of military women. The performance of Natalie Portman has received very good reviews for this project, no doubt selecting her for the role was a wise decision.

Visually it is elegant, precise and contemporary, the photograph during the story outside the glow is dark with a play of lights and shadows, inside the glow the photograph is luminous and colorful as the refraction of a prism, there everything is covered by exotic flowers vines , each corner is like a wild garden.

Annihilation is a true jewel, of those films that after seeing it we continue to think about it, making theories of different endings, the head keeps spinning and if we see it again we will find many more details that we overlooked in the first sight. The story is extraordinary, ambiguous, strange, original, intelligent and full of metaphors.