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Origin is a 2023 American biographical drama film written and directed by Ava DuVernay. It is based on the life of Isabel Wilkerson, played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, as she writes the book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.
Origin: Directed by Ava DuVernay. With Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Jon Bernthal, Niecy Nash, Emily Yancy. The unspoken system that has shaped America and chronicles how lives today are defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.
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- Drama, History
- Ava DuVernay
- 2024-01-19
Jan 26, 2024 · This is the thesis undergirding “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” the 2020 bestseller by the real-life Wilkerson, which deems Nazism and American racism — alongside India’s own rigid caste...
Jan 16, 2024 · “Origin” aims to link the violent repercussions of American slavery to the horrific crimes of the Holocaust to India’s degrading caste system in a narrative that combines gnawing grief with a cyclical sense of history.
Jan 22, 2024 · The celebrated US director speaks about her latest release Origin, and its extraordinarily ambitious, emotional exploration of how racism and prejudice has thrived around the world through...
- Hanna Flint
Mar 6, 2024 · Adapted from Isabel Wilkerson’s 2020 bestseller Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, a hefty factual tome exploring the enduring existence of caste systems, it unrolls the book on screen as a personal journey of discoveries for Wilkerson (deftly played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor).
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In 'ORIGIN', Ava DuVernay, the 'Selma' director adapts Isabel Wilkerson's 'Caste', the best-selling study into how this hidden system has shaped our world - and how its rigid, arbitrary hierarchies still divide us today.
