Annihilation After Ex Machina, Alex Garland takes us on a strange sci-fi expedition, led by Natalie Portman.
It ends up contaminating a strange Venusian life-form that the expedition had discovered there, thus ending its evolution.
After watching 2010, the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey (film), Shepherd commented, "[There is] something strange about watching a movie about a space expedition when you're actually on a space expedition".
That strange sense of being in line on an expedition like this, part of a "team" yet pensively apart, could hardly be better conveyed.
The outermost doll is a set of letters from an English adventurer to his sister, recounting his Arctic expedition and his meeting with the strange, emaciated, haunted Victor Frankenstein.
On an expedition in the Himalayas, Messner had a strange experience with an unknown biped that propelled him towards the deep crevice that is yeti mythology.
That said, China is not at all global, and so a major Chinese naval expedition or military presence in Tanzania sounds a bit strange.
There was more work to be done with the ROV that day, recording the strange marine life of the fjord for the guests on our expedition, but suddenly I was very eager to return to the ship and try to learn more about this strange creature.
A watercolor by John Bellasis, an artist who accompanied an expedition in India, shows his wife sleeping cozily in a strange wedge-shaped bed, which was presumably a collapsible item.
The passion with which she says it — and the shadowy intensity with which Antonioni shoots their furniture-hunting expedition — is part of what makes this movie so enchanting and strange.
Strange sea creatures never before seen appear around the ships, and when the expedition is ready to deploy the tourmaline veils, they have to cut through the riot of organic growth that has totally filled the ships.
