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Editor’s note: This article contains spoilers related to the new movie Eden.

Key Takeaways:

The new movie Eden is based on the true story of a group of Europeans who attempted to inhabit one of the Galapagos Islands in the late 1920s and ’30s.

German physician Friedrich Ritter led the charge to create an idealistic refuge on Floreana Island.

By the mid-1930s, three of original settlers were dead under suspicious circumstances.

Friedrich Ritter sought to create an isolated Eden in the Galapagos Islands, in accordance with the philosophy of Friedrich Neitzsche . What occurred instead validated a different philosopher’s sentiment: Jean-Paul Sartre ’s assertion that “hell is other people.”

The new Ron Howard movie Eden tells the true story of what transpired on F

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