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Creation review

Mon, 2010-07-19 19:31 -- John Hawks

John Wilkins saw the film Creation and enters a review, which I link because it's thoughtful and balanced:

I am very pleasantly surprised how well it worked as a film, as well as how effectively it represented the era. My quibbles are just that, quibbles. Mostly, the history was good (despite the famous tree diagram being shown as a sheet and not a page in the Notebooks), but the overall dramatic themes are just wrong.

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