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As much as I liked Ex Machina, I skipped out on Annihilation while it was in theaters, in part because the lack of studio confidence in it seemed to speak pretty poorly of how the film turned out. There were a lot of interesting ideas in the movie, but I didn’t think they came together quite as well as in Alex Garland’s last film.
That said, there was one quirk of the film that I really loved: the way its score so often was just a simple, acoustic guitar. We’re so used to big, sweeping, and very heavily electronic music in our science fiction films. Bringing in such a warm, physical instrument lends a completely different tone and is unsettling in its own, lonely way because of how unusual it is.
Of course, Annihilation had its big...