Kane, who is in love with his wife, eventually finds out that she has been cheating on him. After 2 years, the Shimmer has grown in size. She begins to send various teams of people in with no success. Ventress is brought in to profile and pick people to be sent into the Shimmer. They begin sending drones, animals, and teams of people. The event becomes classified and an organization by the name Southern Reach takes over. A warden goes in to investigate, he never comes back. The Shimmer can be seen like the surface of a bubble, again because of the refraction of light.Īfter the meteor strike, the lighthouse gets surrounded by this Shimmer. The Shimmer is a dome that is constantly expanding with its center as the lighthouse. Alongside this, the area affected by the refraction also begins to gain a Shimmer. Animal DNA refracts with plant DNA, and also other animal DNA. Refraction of the DNA is not just at the plant level. This refraction causes multiple species of plants to grow off a single stem. The plant DNA will also take on the DNA of other things around it. Which means if this cell resides on a plant, the plant DNA will get refracted to take on the alien cell DNA. The film proposes a theory that the alien cells cause things around it to refract, even at the DNA level. Now, while refraction on Earth applies to waves – like light and sound, it doesn’t apply to cells. But these cells have another property, they have the ability to refract things around them. The meteor has cells of an extraterrestrial entity. We need to know what refraction and cell division are because that’s what is happening inside the Shimmer.Ī meteor hits the Earth at some point, a lighthouse to be specific. This stage is called senescence and is what is related to ageing and eventual death of living things. The Hayflick limit is the number of times a cell will divide before division stops. The rhythm of the dividing pair results in the different structures that form plants, sea creatures, and land creatures including humans. Each cell divides to form a pair of cells after a period of time. Cells have the property of dividing into two.
Refraction, that is caused by a prism, can also split light into the colours of the rainbow.Ĭell Division – All living organisms are made up of cells which are the fundamental building blocks of life. This is because it’s the light waves that get altered when they pass through water. For example, when you see a spoon in a glass of water, you will see a bend in the spoon. In case of light, it can be seen when light passes through the medium air to water. Refraction – It is the phenomenon where the direction of a wave is altered when it travels from one medium to another. Now, for a little bit of physics and biology. She’s cut her wrists several times in the past.Ĭass Sheppard (Tuva Novotny) – She’s a geologist. Josie Radek (Tessa Thompson) – She’s a physicist who’s struggling with life. Ventress (Jennifer Jason Leigh) – She’s a psychologist who is suffering from cancer.Īnya Thorensen (Gina Rodriguez) – She’s a paramedic who was/is an addict. Though we are shown that Lena is happily married to Kane, the nature of their relationship pushes her to cheat on her husband during his calls of duty.ĭr. She’s having an affair with a guy named Daniel. Lena (Natalie) – Currently a biologist, formerly a soldier for 7 years. So, before we get to the kaleidoscopic alien, let’s take a quick look at the characters. In a nutshell, the film explains the behaviour of the alien cells on Earth with the analogy of how cancer cells affect humans. The plot revolves around the arrival of alien cells on Earth.
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