The birth of truth always has to pay more!

Christiana 2022-01-19 08:01:10

First, the road to success is tortuous and long.
This is the point I want to express the most, and it is also the hardest point to express in movies or books. A lot of basic research and data statistics work itself is boring. For example, in this movie, Darwin did a lot of basic research, studied the details of various animals and plants, and did a lot of basic work, and the eye-catching results were only natural conclusions. However, people who hesitate to pay too much attention to results often neglect the long and tortuous road to success. It is not easy to "take a shortcut". Similarly, in the book "The World is Different for You", Li Kaifu described a lot of happy and exciting results. However, for the long and tortuous process of the period, we can often only use simple things such as "long And the painful three months" and other simple descriptions to reflect. In fact, this is the real most difficult place. Look at Yuan Longping again, how many years of hard work has achieved the desired result. Therefore, the future is bright, and the road is very tortuous.

Secondly, to succeed, the price of challenging authority must be paid enough.
At that time, religious authority had an extraordinary level of control over society. It was necessary to pay a sufficient price to challenge religion and authority. How much is enough? Nobody knows. The "infidels" who are constantly being burned to death are only part of these costs. The smaller things in the film can even be ignored. Therefore, a sufficient price is necessary.

In addition, home and everything are prosperous.
Darwin wanted to challenge religious authority, and the pressure can be imagined. But the most touching thing is indeed his wife's continuous support for him. Although they hold different opinions, until the child's death, the husband has been in a state of confusion. He will always support him and support the family. This is the most important thing. Without the support of his family, it would be difficult for Darwin to persist to the end and achieve such an achievement.

This is a relatively plain film that tells the arduous journey of Darwin's "Origin of Species" book. It's worth seeing.

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Creation quotes

  • [from trailer]

    Emma Darwin: Do you not care that you and I may be separated for all eternity?

  • Reverend John Innes: Charles. Charles, my old friend, there you are. May I join you?

    Charles Darwin: Yes. Yes, of course.

    Reverend John Innes: Mrs. Darwin has told me about the book you're writing.

    Charles Darwin: Oh, no, no, not anymore, thank goodness.

    Reverend John Innes: You mean you finished it?

    Charles Darwin: It's been finished for me, actually. A Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace has arrived independently at exactly the same opinion. Expressed in a... in a mere twenty pages. Now there's brevity for you. I had covered two-hundred-fifty so far and have come to a dead end, so whilst having wasted twenty years on the project, I have at least rid of it.

    Reverend John Innes: Well... Well, the Lord moves in mysterious ways.

    Charles Darwin: Hmmm, yes, he does, doesn't he? You know, I was remarking only the other day, how he has endowed us in all of his blessed generosity with not one but nine-hundred species of intestinal worm, each with its own unique method of infiltrated the mucosa and burrowing through to the bloodstream. And on the love that he shows for butterflies by inventing a wasp that lays its eggs inside the living flesh of caterpillars.

    Reverend John Innes: I have said on many previous occasions, it is not for us to speculate at His reasons.

    Charles Darwin: Oh, no, we can leave that to Mr. Wallace! Shall I advise him to stay abroad, do you think? With his opinions if he shows his face around here, he may be required to kneel on rock salt!

    [snarls at Reverend Innes]