what happened to the woman who had cancer ??
anyone know ??
shareShe was down inside the hole in the lighthouse. She was the one who dissolved into a burst of light.
shareI don't have any answers for you hownos, just more questions of my own.
When she's down in the... hole? Crater? Down in the thing, when she's turned with her back to Lena, she doesn't have any eyes. Was she another "duplicate" then? And why did she disintegrate?
Yes she was a duplicate. Just like lena's husband was a duplicate and later on natalie had a duplicate as well.
Were supposed to wonder if lena is a duplicate as well even though we visibily saw she was the original.
she dissolved into light - I didn't see any duplicate
share When lena first arrives the cancer woman is facing away so only we the audience can see her face hasn't fully developed as her eyes are still covered in skin. Lena's duplicate does this later on as well and we see that the face takes only seconds to form. By the time the cancer woman's duplicate turns around it's face is fully formed so lena is unaware she's a suplicate. We as the audience won't learn she was a duplicate till later on as we haven't seen lenas duplicate face form yet or any duplicate. We remember lena talking about duplicates earlier but haven't seen any till now. We should by now know that lena's husband is a duiplicate as we saw the original kill himself with a grenade just before talking about "Were you me? Was I you?" as if he's talking a dupliocate.
The woman with cancer's duplicate describes why she thinks the aliens are doing and then dissolves into light.
An excellent analysis, crc.
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I don't know if Lena wasn't the duplicate, her eyes did a weird thing at the very end there when she was hugging the husband.
But back on topic, why did the duplicate disintegrate? Was it because the original was sick?
Bad story telling. I think it was just so we could see the mandlebulb creature form. That and I don't think the creature has self preservation like we do so disintigrating is meaningless to it.
I think she realised how bad the film was and did a runner.
shareAntress reached the lighthouse and faced the alien inside the hole. Because of her stubborn and shortsighted view about "alien will take over the world", the alien literally took away her eyesight and kept her there, to studied the female object closely. When Lena arrived, they gave Antress's eyes back, so that she could say last words to Lena. Then as she expected and/or wished for, disintegrated her into light cells and merged with their's. After returned, Lena wasn't sure whether they should consider Antress dead or not. Maybe it was Antress's spirit inside Lena's duplicate who agreed to burn the lighthouse and ended the Shimmer.
shareMaybe it was something she ate?
shareThe physicist, who later turned into a plant, explained that the alien technology was advanced enough to break the law of physics. So, the duplication and mutation experiments on team members are not necessary through their eating or touching something. I wonder how Kane's duplicate returned home without being caught under surveillance? Teleportation?
shareYeah it never did explain how Kane or Lena got out, which is pretty crazy, seeing how that's the question the entire narrative is trying to answer.
shareIf you believe that the hole under the lighthouse is the only way in and out of the alien spaceship, then Anna's replicate clearly was teleported ahead of Anna when she crawled out of there.
Kane told Anna that he was at the room with bed and saw her (her projection, my guess) through it's open door, while we know Kane just came up from downstairs to their bedroom. If you take his words seriously, then it suggests Kane was teleported to their downstairs from a different house with a bedroom (where they killed the bear, my guess).
I don't think Anna found any trouble to return to the Southern Reach, since the shimmer was destroyed.
She was replicated and then exploded.
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