Annihilation (I) (2018)
Benedict Wong: Lomax
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Quotes
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Lena : The mutations were subtle at 1st; more extreme as we got closer to the lighthouse. Corruptions of form. Duplicates of form.
Lomax : Duplicates?
Lena : [She looks at the tattoo on her arm & lifts her arm up] Echoes.
Lomax : Is it possible these were hallucinations?
Lena : I wondered that myself... but they were shared among all of us. It was dreamlike.
Lomax : Nightmarish?
Lena : Not always. Sometimes it was beautiful.
[the movie then cuts back in time to show beautiful translucent single-tailed wormfish swimming alongside double-tailed duplicates. Lena is in a canoe on a swamp located quite near to a corpse that bears the same tattoo as Lena]
Lena : Oww. Ow.
[She clutches her arm - there is no tattoo yet. However, a dark blue mark has appeared at the same place on her arm]
Cass Sheppard : You're hurt?
Lena : It's just a bruise. I must have gotten that from the gator.
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[first lines]
Lomax : What did you eat? You had rations for two weeks. You were inside for nearly four months.
Lena : I don't remember eating.
Lomax : How long did you think you were inside?
Lena : Days. Maybe weeks.
Lomax : What happened to Josie Radek?
Lena : ...I don't know.
Lomax : What about Sheppard? Thorensen?
Lena : Dead.
Lomax : Ventress?
Lena : ...I don't know.
Lomax : Then what do you know?
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Lomax : Can you describe its form?
Lena : No.
Lomax : Was it carbon based?
Lena : I don't know.
Lomax : What did it want?
Lena : I don't think it wanted anything.
Lomax : But it attacked you.
Lena : It mirrored me. I attacked it. I'm not even sure if it knew I was there.
Lomax : It came here for a reason. It mutated our environment, it was destroying everything.
Lena : It wasn't destroying. It was changing everything. It was making something new.
Lomax : Making what?
Lena : ...I don't know.
