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Annihilation and decoding metaphor

Posted by clerical_terrors
Tags: science fiction, annihilation, diegesis, dan olson, metaphors, analysis.film, video essays, author.dan olson, videos, folding ideas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URo66iLNEZw

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Authors
Folding Ideas
Duration
19:36
Published
Nov 1 2018

4 comments

  1. [2]
    DonQuixote
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    I've read Jeff Vandermeer's trilogy but avoided the movie so far. Now I guess I'll have to see it, because it can't be as full of cliche's as this guy's review of it is. Forgive me. I'm being...

    I've read Jeff Vandermeer's trilogy but avoided the movie so far. Now I guess I'll have to see it, because it can't be as full of cliche's as this guy's review of it is. Forgive me. I'm being metaphoric and ironic. In fact I'm using metaphor as irony. Who is this guy? I think he posed for a Chuck Close painting decades ago.

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    1. TheJorro
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      It's as he says, the movie is blunt. The movie is very different from the books.

      It's as he says, the movie is blunt. The movie is very different from the books.

      1 vote
  2. [2]
    clerical_terrors
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    I'll admit I haven't seen Annihilation, but this video made me more interested in seeing it, even if I feel like I can no longer watch it without thinking of Dan's interpretation of it. I feel...

    I'll admit I haven't seen Annihilation, but this video made me more interested in seeing it, even if I feel like I can no longer watch it without thinking of Dan's interpretation of it.

    I feel like it also serves as a slight send-up of a lot of the more popular analysis channels on Youtube, not just the common punching bag of cinemasins, and how their drive towards rapidly producing content in order to get views results in videos which somewhat impoverish the conversation.

    1 vote