2009 · drama · history
Creation
Directed by Jon Amiel1h 48m2009
A psychological, heart-wrenching love story that provides a unique and inside look at Charles Darwin. Torn between faith and science, he struggles to finish his legendary book "On the Origin of Species," which goes on to become the foundation for evolutionary biology.
Our read: Creation (2009) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · history entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / history, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- measured
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How Creation feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want Darwin's faith and grief wrestling with the book that changed science.”
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