Jung wrote: “Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. This may be due to so-called “hybrid vigor,” where dominant (and presumably healthier) genes tend to express themselves. Flowers stuck in a continuous mutation — each bloom different, yet growing from the same plant. – M.BrahminIndeed, the novel’s plot summary on Wikipedia reveals the film’s sweeping changes. "Art and Religion are one. Lena ends her affair with Daniel in a later flashback so that she can be reunited with her husband’s Semitic/qlipha doppelganger born out of the Shimmer. The ouroboros is a dramatic symbol for the integration and assimilation of the opposite (i.e. Just before she vanishes, she starts to sprout plant life from her skin, flowers literally blooming from her self-inflicted scars. She says outright that people who voluntarily enter the Shimmer must be fundamentally flawed or self-destructive. “Helen” and its cognates become a catch-all for desirable females. “Deep Impact,” written by a Jew and produced by Spielberg, clearly contains JEM, with references to Jacob’s sons Judah the lion and Benjamin the wolf (as the names of characters and the meteorite they discover) which lands off the east coast location of the United States that is home to one of the largest brick lighthouses in the world. An Annihilation fanvid. This affair, the primary function of which is to cuckold Kane (Lena’s white husband), was not in the book, so it’s one of the most obvious indicators that we’re dealing with JEM. Firstly, Lena takes her name from the Greek Helene, a recurring archetype in the JEM stemming from Helen of Troy, or simply the Hellenistic period. “Kane” is an Irish surname meaning “war like,” which fits with his military occupation. We never really figure out what, if anything, sent it, despite Lomax’s (Benedict Wong) confident assertion that Lena encountered an alien. Satellite navigation, radio communications, and even the compass are malfunctioning. You can cancel anytime. This is the Shimmer, a three-year-old anomalous phenomenon that’s rapidly expanding, consuming the land. If you delight in breaking down film plots into Joseph Campbell’s “The Hero’s Journey,” wait until you get your hands on a film encoding REM. Here it is understood as the cause. Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. Alchemists used the symbol of the ouroboros to represent integration of the conscious and the unconscious into the self, two halves of a whole. The word “autophagy” derives from the Ancient Greek autóphagos, meaning “self-devouring,” not unlike an ouroboros. It's making something new."

Even getting up in the morning is a little scary for her.” And then she endures the horror of the Shimmer’s mutated inhabitants. She asks if he really As mentioned, if the Aryan Kane was replaced by a Semitic qlipha, then we can interpret Lena’s qlipha as a Semitic Judith figure: The unwanted, undesirable Jewish female or “non-identity.”[37] Lena’s rejection and destruction of this figure, of course, aligns with Jewish men rejecting Jewish women in favor of blonde, blue-eyed Aryans. Cass, the anthropologist, suffered the death of a child. This causes a massive tidal wave that can be considered a metaphor for the Biblical flood. Once inside, people become hopelessly lost and unable to keep track of time, and inevitably lose their minds. Short.” Josie shrugs and says, “Still a cycle.” The mysterious tattoo that Lena develops during her time in the Shimmer represents this cycle: an ouroboros.

There are a few indications that something similar happened here, most notably that the film cuts to a scene in which Lena is having sex with her colleague Daniel (David Gyasi) immediately after she passes through the border.

“We only have this time, so we might as well let our hair down and take our hoodies off." It’s coming whether we want to accept it or not,” she laughed. Lena mentions the mutant life forms, and is asked if they were ugly. It follows her every move, like a mirror image. “It made it feel like we were really in it.” Despite these encounters, a more fearless Josie emerges. It signifies infinity, wholeness, two cells dividing, yin and yang, and echoes, like the Shimmer’s refractions.

Priscilla Page is a writer, book hoarder, and dog companion who lives in Los Angeles. In the video, he seems confused about which of them is real, but he also speaks to his duplicate as if it were less experienced than he was, asking it if it’s ever seen a grenade go off, which the real Kane clearly would have.