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Origin is an immersive, impressive film based on African-American journalist Isabel Wilkerson's international investigation of race and caste.
Ellis-Taylor plays “Caste” author Isabel Wilkerson in this ambitious attempt to imagine the creative process.
Words like “important” and “vital” are thrown around possibly a little too much in film criticism. It’s not that we don’t mean it — it’s just that sometimes we (ok, I) can get a bit excited. And when ...
The book in question is "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents," in which Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson offers an overriding theory about power and hierarchy and systemic dehumanization in social structures, connecting the Black experience in America to the Dalits of India and Jewish people in Nazi Germany.
Ava DuVernay's boldly original "Origin" laces a writer's eye-opening philosophical journey with gripping personal drama.