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Human Nature (2019)
Informative
This documentary was a very informative documentary. This documentary is great for the people who are new to this topic of gene editing or for those who want to learn more about the science and biology behind gene editing. This movie does a great job of explaining and introducing gene editing and how it works in a simple but effective way. The documentary starts off from the early stages of gene editing and how the idea of it came to be. It does a great job of explaining the steps and processes it took to get to where they are in this fairly new topic called gene editing. I liked how they were pretty neutral in terms of showing both the good and bad sides of gene editing and not just the good. The people who were interviewed were very specific in showing and talking about the pros and cons. They go into great detail on the technology called CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) which helped them figure out details that improved gene editing greatly. The idea of CRISPR and what it stands for were all in the documentary. They did a good job with the visuals that show what the scientists were talking about so it didn't make the viewers uncomfortable with the science jargon. The visuals were especially helpful when the scientists were talking about and explaining the process and how gene editing worked. The analogies were also helpful. The people who were interviewed were very informative, when asked certain questions it left me with a pretty good understanding instead of leaving me with more questions. I liked how the documentary was divided into six different chapters: Needle in a Haystack, CRISPR, The Gene Machine, Brave New World, The Good Gene, and Playing God. This was a very helpful feature put into this documentary. In most other documentaries it can be quite hard to follow when people start talking about various things. But breaking them down into chapters was helpful and it kind of gave a preview of what we could learn next. The story of the young boy was very inspiring to see. You could see that even with a disease like sickle cell he's able to enjoy his life. Knowing that there are researchers trying to help people like him with gene editing was really inspiring. I got to see what gene editing was all about through this documentary. Showing all the steps and mistakes and all the people that came to contribute to making gene editing better and safer. At the end of the documentary it had me thinking for a while about the various things and contents of the film. Things that could happen if this technology and information were to become perfect, what kind of world would it be like. Getting rid of and being able to cure people with the kind of illnesses that would benefit. I think that it would be pretty cool to see a world like that.