Human Nature

Name: Human Nature
Genre: Documentary
Released: March 13, 2020
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 77
Cast: Aliza Ben-Baruch, Alta Charo, Antonio Regalado, David Baltimore, Emmanuelle Charpentier

2020

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Dartmouth Films | Release Date: March 13, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Aliza Ben-Baruch, Alta Charo, Antonio Regalado, David Baltimore, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Feng Zhang, Fyodor Urnov, George Church, George Daley, Jennifer Doudna, Jill Banfield, Joab Camarena, Michael Dabrowski, Rodolphe Barrangou, Tshaka Cunningham

Summary: A breakthrough called CRISPR has given us unprecedented control over the basic building blocks of life. It opens the door to curing diseases, reshaping the biosphere, and designing our own children. Human Nature is a provocative exploration of CRISPR’s far-reaching implications, through the eyes of the scientists who discovered it, theA breakthrough called CRISPR has given us unprecedented control over the basic building blocks of life. It opens the door to curing diseases, reshaping the biosphere, and designing our own children. Human Nature is a provocative exploration of CRISPR’s far-reaching implications, through the eyes of the scientists who discovered it, the families it’s affecting, and the bioengineers who are testing its limits. How will this new power change our relationship with nature? What will it mean for human evolution? To begin to answer these questions we must look back billions of years and peer into an uncertain future.… Expand

Director: Adam Bolt

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 95 min

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Bobby LePire

Mar 12, 2020

Wherever you may land on the ethical issues of gene manipulation, Human Nature, is a fascinating watch. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Mar 10, 2020

The lighter touches in Human Nature, which lists Dan Rather as a producer, come from scientists who are all “Big Bang Theory” extras at heart — referencing sci fi books and movies to make their points. Will we accept a positive vision of how this hurtle towards the future turns out (“Star Trek”) or a dystopic one (“Blade Runner”)? Read full review

John DeFore

Mar 12, 2020

A cogent, wide-ranging look at both the discovery and the nascent, soon-to-be-giant fights humans are having over it. Read full review

Ken Jaworowski

Mar 12, 2020

Every “Oh wow” in Human Nature is matched by an “Oh no” somewhere down the line. Together, these two competing emotions — excitement and unease — make for one pretty fascinating documentary. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Mar 12, 2020

The film is at its most intriguing in its earlier half, when it simply takes you through the growing excitement within the scientific community as the reality of Crispr emerges. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Mar 23, 2020

The real achievement of Human Nature is that it takes a complex subject and distills it into such an engaging 95-minute package. That’s the successful experiment underlying this particular project, in which viewers happen to serve as the guinea pigs in how such technical information can be presented in a more effective way. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Monica Castillo

Mar 13, 2020

Much of the movie is dedicated to the hard science behind the discovery of CRISPRs that has opened a whole new Pandora’s Box of possibilities both terrible and great, but I wish there were more of the human element in Human Nature. Read full review

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