EDEN – Review by T.J. Callahan
Eden is Gilligan’s Island meets Lord of the Flies. Based on “those who survived”, the Ron Howard film is the true story of Dr. Friedrich Ritter and his partner, Dore Strauch, who settled on Floreana Island in the Galapagos to live a better life alone, foraging for themselves while escaping the collapsing economy of WWI Germany. Ritter’s letters home soon became glamorized by the press encouraging others to join “Paradise”. He was the first influencer without meaning to be.
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