Review Of Joy 2024 Film
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Sometimes you just need a nice, cozy movie with a heartwarming true story and actors with British accents. If Bill Nighy is one of them, that's just a bonus. "Joy" is based on three intrepid researchers who pioneered in vitro fertilization, or IVF, the first baby to be born from an egg fertilized in a laboratory. Her name was Louise Brown, and after 10 years of research and many failures and setbacks along the way, she was born on July 25, 1978. You can enjoy this movie on Afdah Full Movies.
The three researchers are biologist Robert Edwards (James Norton), obstetrician and surgeon Patrick Steptoe (Bill Nighy), and laboratory manager Jean Purdy (Thomasin McKenzie), who trained as a nurse but ultimately chose a brand new clinical field: embryology. They had little support from the medical elite. When they came to apply for research funding, skeptical members of the Medical Research Council Edwards Committee asked: "How many people is this going to help?" But the committees responsible for funding medical research don't imagine this would be a problem. They don't see the need to work on how to have more babies because of the problem of overpopulation. They explain that they want "something exciting for science as a whole" and that infertility treatments are out of the question.
They received a public outcry. Edwards went all out to the press in response to claims that his behavior was unnatural (he dryly replied that glasses and dentures were the same) and even that he was like Dr. Edwards is a Frankenstein. He participated in a televised debate with Nobel laureate James Watson, a member of the team that discovered the molecular structure of DNA. Watson said that he was by no means against scientific progress, but he was concerned that this kind of interference with the combination of eggs and sperm could cause "abnormalities" outside the human body. "I come from a generation of scientists born in the shadow of Mengele," Watson says. "I worry that we are entering a situation where our research could cause similar disgust... You are a scientist, struggling with the results of your research, but trying to explain the calculated risk-reward ratio." The studio audience is not convinced.
There are plenty of test tubes and microscopes in this film Joy 2024, as well as some very scary long needles and medical jargon. But there's enough focus on the people to keep us connected, not just to the three researchers, but also to the women who agreed to undergo invasive and painful procedures without knowing if they would become pregnant.
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