Annihilation is the second film directed by novelist - turned screenwriter - turned - filmmaker Alex Garland, and it proves a worthy follow - up to his directorial debut, Ex Machina (2015), a clinical psychodrama that used an artificial intelligence robot to force us to question
the fundamental essence of humanity.
In
essence, one is called to reject all concepts
of a primordial homeostasis; for, according to Altizer, all such yearnings contradict the
fundamental movement
of the sacred and what Blake called the great «
Humanity Divine.»