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The movie was about cancer? Where did you read that?! The movie is the closest movie approximation of the book Alex Garland could make, considering how dense and intertwined the whole Southern Reach Trilogy is.
I found the article I read back when I saw it in theaters. It's only one dude's opinion, though. Now that I see the rest of the comments here that makes sense. I suppose back then i just took his word for it.
https://patrickkmc10.medium.com/annihilation-is-the-greatest-film-about-cancer-youll-never-see-d20209ba12e5
Sorry if my question sounded like an attack 😬 Vandermeer’s writing style deliberately opens his work to different interpretations and it’s rather interesting to see the same happening with this movie adaptation. Another interesting angle I’ve read is environmental: either in a way that Area X is return to nature (purification) or it’s the opposite (our own destruction of the planet) Getting ready to re-read the whole trilogy, will definitely include this guy’s cancer perspective as I am going through to see how it fits.