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In the feverish crescendo ofAnnihilationswordless climax, the name Bobbi Jene crept into my otherwise paralyzed brain.
(And you know what they say aboutthe void.)
Lena, hollow-cheeked and dead-eyed and just as single-mindedly determined for answers, is not far behind her.
The original Kane explodes himself with a phosphorous grenade; its his remains on the floor of the lighthouse.
The doppelganger, we are to assume, makes his way back out of the Shimmer.
At my screening I heard some people sigh in exasperation why would shedothat!?
The double isnt sentient, it is a projection, itsall Lena.Which makes it all the more terrifying.
Playing over all this, and matching Smiths choreography in intensity, is Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrows score.
The combination is overwhelming.
But is it the delirious, Shimmer-ravaged Original Lena who escapes, or her double?
The point of the Shimmer seems to be its inevitability.
