#origin 2023

[blackinperiodfilms]

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.

[dykesforbernthal]

watched the first third of origin on a plane and wow, that was not a good movie. really poorly conceived, BUT i did appreciate how ava duvernay directed jon. he was very cute and sweet in it even if i had to hear him utter the word mansplain…