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I, Origins Another Religious Film?

Started by SGOS, August 08, 2014, 06:20:32 AM

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SGOS

This is playing at a little back street theater that usually offers a funky new release each week that the big chain theaters don't show.  I had to google to find a plot summary that explained enough to answer my question about whether it's just more religious pabulum that seems to have gripped Hollywood lately.  But it appears to me more of a movie to generate discussion without providing any answers.

http://filmschoolrejects.com/reviews/i-origins.php

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Ian Gray (Michael Pitt) is a molecular biologist primarily interested in the function, capability, and evolution of the human eye. He’s worked on curing color blindness and takes photos of people’s eyes in his free time, but it’s his latest project that sets him on a spectacular course. Hoping to eliminate the sharpest arrow from creationists’ quiver of arguments against evolution (and for intelligent design), he sets out to map the various stages of human eye evolution. Karen (Brit Marling), a first-year student assigned to his lab, excitedly assists the project by searching for a currently sightless species that nonetheless feature the genetic material needed to create even the simplest eye.

Read more at Film School Rejects: http://filmschoolrejects.com/reviews/i-origins.php#ixzz39nHmjnQw

Read more at http://filmschoolrejects.com/reviews/i-origins.php#CksVVRSScxc3mgEW.99

I've seen another of this director's films (Another Earth), which was slow moving, although interesting and unique.  The plot summary above goes on to say that the movie often doesn't get the scientific facts right.  It could be just the creationist claim that science doesn't have the facts correct and only the Bible can offer such truth.  Or it could be just a case of science fiction taking liberty with scientific facts.  I'll be willing to take a chance on this one in the hopes that it's not just a propaganda film for the religious right.

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I'll wait until I hear more about it before I take a look myself.
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