A film about courage and love

Armando 2022-03-23 09:03:06

Darwin's intractability over the death of his daughter Anne, and the knot between him and his wife (who was also his cousin) caused by Anne's death, along with Darwin's evolutionary theory's implication that there is no God and heaven between him and his wife. Tensions accompanied the final years of Darwin's great book, On the Origin of Species. And the final publication of On the Origin of Species coincided with the completion of Darwin's "Anne Plot" and the easing of tensions between him and his wife and children.

This BBC film takes the conflict between Darwin and his wife as the main line, describing Darwin's memories and love for his daughter Anne, and describing the pressure of the times and religious atmosphere in which he lived on him and his wife. Under these conflicts, Darwin, Especially in the context of family conflict, hallucinations occur, following these hallucinations and memories, we are able to review the personal sources of Darwin's evolutionary thinking, the film recalls the Beagle sending two Tierra del Fuego indigenous teenagers from British society back to savagery Social experiences, Darwin's story of meeting Jenny, the first gorilla who came to England, at the zoo and realizing the mental and emotional story it has, seeing the happy life of the Darwin family while Anne was there, seeing at least Darwin's How Annie in his memories communicated with him, and to a certain extent, Annie in his memories and visions helped him to insist on completing and publishing "Origin of Species". Also see, finally, when he decided to complete and publish On the Origin of Species, Wallace's letter dealt him another blow.

Next, we see how Darwin's knot ends up in a psychoanalysis-like therapy. His psychological stress was that he was sick, and Hook suggested that he return to Malvern to receive the spa, which was the last place Annie went to receive the spa without healing and died, a return to the place that caused the knot that plagued him many years ago. Revisiting is the key to Darwin's recovery. The spa therapist's conversation with him is full of psychotherapeutic flavors, he makes Darwin recall and talk about the conflict between him and his wife brought about by Anne's death, and finally, in Anne's vision, Darwin returns to Anne's serious illness and death The house where he recalls Annie's final moments and bursts into tears, the catharsis of the cry that completes the Annie episode. When he returned home, he and his wife restarted a conversation they hadn't had in years, talking candidly about the death of their child and the separation between the husband and wife caused by it, and resolved their conflict. Immediately, he and The tension between the children over his preference for Annie is also resolved.

In the film, Anne and Darwin's wife Emma do look alike, but they are very smart, and the portrayal of Darwin's family life is also very real. This film makes people see courage, but also love. It was Darwin's courage that enabled him to overcome the pressures of society, the pressures of his family, and his own mental state.

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  • [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]