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03-03-2018, 09:16 AM
If you liked the 'Annihilation' movie, you absolutely NEED to read the book
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There is frequently a disclaimer that accompanies Alex Garland's new movie Annihilation: it's nothing like the book.
At first glance, based on the trailer, the movie positions itself as a fight against creepy things that go bump in the night. Natalie Portman, playing Lena the biologist, must go into "the shimmer" with a team, to solve a mystery that'll save her dying husband, who went into Area X previously. And then things get (very, very, very) weird.
In the book, the struggle is much more ethereal —*it's a quest to understand the un-understandable, to fight to hold onto one's self in the face of extreme uncertainty, a quest to live in a landscape that seems to be fighting back. Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/03/02/mashreads-podcast-annihilation-jeff-vandermeer/)
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There is frequently a disclaimer that accompanies Alex Garland's new movie Annihilation: it's nothing like the book.
At first glance, based on the trailer, the movie positions itself as a fight against creepy things that go bump in the night. Natalie Portman, playing Lena the biologist, must go into "the shimmer" with a team, to solve a mystery that'll save her dying husband, who went into Area X previously. And then things get (very, very, very) weird.
In the book, the struggle is much more ethereal —*it's a quest to understand the un-understandable, to fight to hold onto one's self in the face of extreme uncertainty, a quest to live in a landscape that seems to be fighting back. Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/03/02/mashreads-podcast-annihilation-jeff-vandermeer/)
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