As well as featuring the most dramatic use of an elevator since Damien; Omen II, writer/director Mike Cahill’s science-fiction based drama sports an original idea of some potential. Ian (Michael Pitt) falls for model Sofi (Astrid Berges Frisbey), but their relationship ends in a violent and unexpected death. Lab assistant Karen (Brit Marling provides some solace, but Ian’s fascination with eyes as not only the gateway to the soul but a genetic fingerprint that supports notions of re-incarnation, and leads to a fascinating resolution in which Ian’s ideas of science and religion are repeatedly subverted. I Origins plays like a low-fi Twilight Zone episode with intellectual pretensions, and despite occasional gore, is a decidedly adult sci-fi thriller about belief
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I Origins 2014 ***
Is the “I” supposed to be a play on words on “Eye”?
Yes. You are correct.
Hmmm, not sure this is for me then. Titles like that indicate a lack of gravitas and seriousness that I expect in my Matrix-esque movies.
Sigh. Blerk.