Ava DuVernay has taken on some massive topics and projects in recent years, from bringing Martin Luther King Jr.
to the screen with Selma, explaining the prison-industrial complex in 13th, and adapting one of the most beloved YA novels of all time with A Wrinkle in Time.
But her latest film, Origin, might be the most complex and compelling project yet, as she attempts to turn Isabel Wilkerson’s nonfiction book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents”—which explores racism in the United States and the tools in place to put social hierarchies in place—into a film.
It’s an odd project, one that only works in fits and starts, but once DuVernay gets all the pieces in place and unites Wilkerson’s thoughts, Origin comes together in unexpected ways.
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