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The casting has nothing to do with political correctness, SJWs or anything like that
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What a laughable attempt at a dishonest diversion. Your claim was:
"it's the SJW appearances and all the accompanying superficialities of diversity that explains why critics overly *praised* a mediocre, forgettable film"
I then presented you with a slew of reviews which *praise* the film for things such as:
- "an intelligent film that asks big questions and refuses to provide easy answers. Sci-fi at its best"
- "masterful job of building the mystery"
- "mesmerizing and its awe-inspiring conclusion"
- "It proudly exists on a visceral, sub-verbal level"
etc, etc.
You then cherry pick one favorable review and dredge up articles which are not praising the film but are *critical*, for what you imply are so-called SJW reasons. Not only is this *irrelevant* to your claim that critics *praise* was due to SJW pandering, you also ignore the evidence that runs counter to your claim. That "pal" is known as confirmation bias.
So "pal", it is you who is woefully misinformed or utterly dishonest, take your pick. Your muddled argument is not worth any more of anyone's time.
http://www.metacritic.com/movie/annihilation/critic-reviews
All of the critic review synopses here talk about the film on its own merits, in terms of story and presentation, as opposed to referencing "SJW appearances" and "superficialities of diversity". Regardless of what you thought of the film, if you're going to claim some SJW conspiracy you're going to have to do a lot better than that.
The book is a trilogy, but the screenplay was written after only the first book was complete. So if there is a sequel, then it will probably deviate from the books, which are quite different.
Interesting take, although I don't see how lesbianism fits in to the "healthy" narrative (implying that this trait makes one somehow "unhealthy" or "impure", which I really don't see as something the writer would have intended). I do suspect that the concept of female fertility may have been something Alex Garland's script plays into, in the book less so, for reasons that will become apparent if you do end up reading it.
Yeah I agree with your assessment that the changes didn't really contribute to the story very well. It seems some concessions had to be made to the modern cinema audience or at least how it is perceived. The tone of the book is far more bleak and emotionally reserved and impersonal. The characters are referred to only by their professions and it's a much more mysterious and drawn out affair. I suspect that Alex Garland felt that this wouldn't play well enough to popular tastes. It was detrimental to the story, ultimately.
It's not a military. The Southern Reach is a scientific government institution. If you read the books they describe why they send in the people the way they do. Essentially the teams are pretty expendable and are made up of people representing different scientific fields. They already sent in heavily armed military guys and none came back.
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