Charles Darwin film ‘too controversial for religious America’
Posted on September 19th, 2009 by MichaelTELEGRAPH.CO.UK:
A British film about Charles Darwin has failed to find a US distributor because his theory of evolution is too controversial for American audiences, according to its producer.
Creation, starring Paul Bettany, details Darwin’s “struggle between faith and reason” as he wrote On The Origin of Species. It depicts him as a man who loses faith in God following the death of his beloved 10-year-old daughter, Annie.
The film was chosen to open the Toronto Film Festival and has its British premiere on Sunday. It has been sold in almost every territory around the world, from Australia to Scandinavia.
However, US distributors have resolutely passed on a film which will prove hugely divisive in a country where, according to a Gallup poll conducted in February, only 39 per cent of Americans believe in the theory of evolution.
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September 21st, 2009 at 8:54 am
Why in deed at this stage of our own evolution would we put our head in the sand and not allow the opinion of others to be shared. Does the American film censors believe that their people are stupid?
September 19th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
It is a shame that in this day and age a film that is neither violent nor pornographic (as so many of the movies shown today in theaters around the world and mostly made in America) cannot find distribution in the U.S.
This is a film that can make people reflect on and think about many interesting and useful subjects, such as God (Does it really exist as we think?), the meaning of life and death, reincarnation, the law of cause and effect, our true place in this planet, and so on.
You don’t have to believe in the theory of evolution to see this film.
You just have to be tolerant of other people’s beliefs and ways of thinking.