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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 2001 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Warner Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned |
| TYPE: | Documentary |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 794054862423 |
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Customer Reviews of Nova - Life's Greatest Miracle
Stunning visuals and extremely informative. Saw this on PBS and had to get it to show my wife. John Lithgow's narration is great and the visuals are stunning - very very educational. The only thing we disliked was the couple featured, it was allright for a bit but then we were rolling our eyes at them. Who cares about the husband's sympathetic morning sickness? I would prefer an hour-long with more in depth explanations and visuals.
Breathtaking!
I am an expecting father, and as such, in the company of my wife we've been reading and learning about babies and pregnancy. I confess I was in awe with the images from this PBS video. There is not another word to describe the whole process from conception to birth but a miracle! The video in a very easy-to-follow way describes in considerable detail all the stages with the support of extraordinary footage and computer animation. Not just meant for parents-to-be but for everyone at large. Don't miss it.
good side bad side
.. There is some very cool photography here, especially of implantation and the early weeks of fetal development. There's also a lot of boring non-expert talking head stuff (this expectant couple loves to tango!!), and disappointingly little science. The cursory handling of meiosis is as complex as it gets. Regarding the advertised new take on the gender politics in the fertilization story: yes, they have eliminated the whole 'mighty sperm penetrates the egg' narrative, but the alternative introduces its own new gender based anthropomorphism of these single cells ('the egg is guarded by watchful chaperones...')It also features a strangely abrupt ending - it says something about the last 2/3rds of pregnancy being uneventful ..) and then pretty much cuts to the end. So, buy it if you want to glean the 6-7 minutes of cool photography, but don't expect much more.