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  1. 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...

  2. 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.

  3. 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...

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  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Jan 26, 2024 · One Nazi-era event dramatized in “Origin” is the 1935 drafting of the Nuremberg Laws, the race-purity strictures that declared Jews to be racially inferior and outlawed relations between them...

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  8. Jan 18, 2024 · Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson’s book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is persuasive, but doesn’t work as a drama. In theaters Jan. 18.

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