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1. • • Sometimes too overt, “Origin” isn’t a perfect movie. But the character of a truly great film isn’t found in its perfection. Rather it arises from how the narrative moves, challenges, and hugs the heart. Rich in thought, “Origin” is a dense, forceful masterwork, and, quite simply, the most radical film of DuVernay’s career.
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   • Sometimes too overt, “Origin” isn’t a perfect movie. But the character of a truly great film isn’t found in its perfection. Rather it arises from how the narrative moves, challenges, and hugs the heart. Rich in thought, “Origin” is a dense, forceful masterwork, and, quite simply, the most radical film of DuVernay’s career.

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   What inspired 'origin' based on a true story?

   • The inspiration for “Origin,” which DuVernay both wrote and directed, is Isabel Wilkerson’s acclaimed, best-selling 2020 book “Caste.”

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   Does 'Origin' really matter?

   • With "Origin," DuVernay gives us something rare in a multiplex dominated by comic-book escapism: a movie that matters. ABC will receive a commission for purchases made through these links.

   Review: 'Origin' is an emotional powerhouse that you'll be talking

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   Does origin open with the author?

   • Origin looks at the story behind the book and at Wilkerson’s personal journey that leads her to write it. But the film doesn’t open with the author; it opens with a young Black man going to the store. As we watch him walk out into the night, he fades into the blackness.

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   Is 'origin' a good book?

   • For his part, the author Sunil Khilnani, writing in The New Yorker, sees in Wilkerson’s book “more grim continuity than hopeful departures, more regression to the mean than moments of progress.” Despite its well-wrought, meaningful tears, “Origin” is, by contrast, extraordinarily hopeful.

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   Is 'origin' a documentary?

   • Don't jump to conclusions. "Origin," though not a documentary, is still a social history, a spellbinding provocation that takes on weighty themes in drawing parallels among the caste systems in India, Nazi Germany and the American South.

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   Mar 7, 2024 · At the simplest level, the movie is an adaptation of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, the 2020 non-fiction bestseller by American writer Isabel Wilkerson. Her thesis was that under the...

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   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.

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   Mar 8, 2024 · DuVernay’s film is based on the bestselling 2020 book by Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents. The book’s argument is that caste, rather than race, is at the root of...

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   Mar 6, 2024 · Ava DuVerney’s dramatisation of Isabel Wilkerson’s bestselling non-fiction book about the enduring existence of caste systems is thought-provoking, but the film’s crowded template eventually becomes unwieldy. 6 March 2024.

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   May 3, 2024 · DuVernay’s sweeping odyssey is an ambitious (if sometimes messy) spectacle. At its best, it holds a poignant power that provides plenty of food for thought — enough to linger long after the ...

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   Dec 7, 2023 · Ava DuVernay’s new feature film, adapted from the Isabel Wilkerson book “Caste,” turns the journalist into a character who examines oppression.

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    Jan 19, 2024 · The result is an emotional powerhouse that you'll be talking about for years, even if you don't agree with all of Wilkerson's arguments. With "Origin," DuVernay gives us something rare in a multiplex dominated by comic-book escapism: a movie that matters.