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Darwin's Darkest Hour Analysis
In this NOVA film, Darwin’s Darkest Hour, we watch the life of Charles Darwin when he hear news of a colleague publishing work similar to his book Origin of Species. The documentary shows not only his work life during this time, but also his struggles as a husband and father. Darwin’s Darkest Hour also, highlights his voyage on the Beagle and how he came to his conclusion about evolution. The film really showed his struggle to find his passion of evolution and how it contradicted popular belief of the world and religion. His own wife was very skeptical of his work, but also supported him. This film overall was very good. I personally love documentaries, so this was right up my ally. I liked how it showed the mixture and balance between his
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