Mar 13, 2024
Jon Berthal | Origin (2023)
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Jon Berthal | Origin (2023)
Isha Blaaker as Allison Davis and Jasmine Cephas Jones as Elizabeth Davis in Ava DuVernay’s Origin (2023).
This dynamic couple laid the academic foundation for many of the ideas explored in the film around the notion of caste in America. Their journey took them from the segregated south of the United States to Berlin, Germany during the rise of Nazism.
Isha and Jasmine beautifully embody these trailblazers as they endeavor on a landmark - and often dangerous - journey.
Origin (2023)
Checkout my review of ORIGIN (2023) which unveils the deep roots of injustice.
Ava DuVernay’s Origin isn’t a conventional biopic. It’s the story of Isabel Wilkerson’s (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) intellectual journey as she writes her ground-breaking book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, published in 2020. We see Wilkerson grapple with personal loss while meticulously researching and weaving together the insidious threads of racism that bind seemingly disparate historical…
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