FUTURE’S PAST: HOW THE FILM ORIGIN DELIVERS AN ALTERNATIVE BLACK EXPERIENCE
From the start, my mind understood that Origin is an emotional film, hence why my soul cringed about thirty minutes after the Trayvon Martin scene. The protagonist, Isabel Wilkerson, played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, is having lunch with friends in Germany, telling them about how she’s researching the connection between the Holocaust and slavery, when a debate emerges. A white woman friend expresses how Black slaves were…
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