Title: Don't buy this movie.
Product review: After reading Randal Keynes' book, which is the basis for this movie, and Darwin's own account of his life as well as his scientific contributions, this movie was a terrible disappointment. Where Keynes is balanced and careful this movie is excessive and biased. It is a fiction about a character loosely based on Darwin who we are to believe is struggling to the point of mental illness to reject a literalist, Book of Genesis, account of the origins of life on earth. The movie squanders an excellent cast of actors and the opportunity to provide a glimpse into the personal life of one of the world's greatest intellects. It fictionalizes history to make it fit into the current argument between those who accept the evidence for evolution as spelled out in Darwin's Origins of the Species and the Christian Creationist's and their theory of intelligent design. The result is a biased account of history and a story that makes Darwin appear to be a pathetic neurotic.
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