Our Review
- Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Jon Bernthal, Niecy Nash, Nick Offerman.
- March 8th 2024
- Ava DuVernay
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor plays Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson in this hard-hitting examination of caste systems.
After taking a break from movie directing following 2018’s A Wrinkle in Time, Ava DuVernay is back with Origin.
This hard-hitting drama stars Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor as Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson, the author of the 2020 non-fiction book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.
The film follows Wilkerson as she researches her book and interview scholars and case studies to present her case that caste and racism are different and should not be confused with one another. She particularly focuses on Black people in America, Jews in Nazi Germany and the Dalits in India to explore why they are on the lower rungs of their respective caste systems and what has kept them there.
Although it is a tough, upsetting watch, Origin tells an important and powerful story that should be shown in schools to educate everyone about why these marginalised people are treated as less than other groups.
At times, it feels like a documentary and perhaps...
