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Origin Movie Trailer HD - US Release Date: January 19, 2024
Starring: Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Jon Bernthal, Niecy Nash, Vera Farmiga
Director : Ava DuVernay
Synopsis: Author Isabel Wilkerson writes her seminal book "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" while coping with personal tragedy.
Transcript
00:00 (dramatic music)
00:01 - Mom made me promise I'd come by today.
00:03 It's my birthday.
00:05 - Wait, today is your birthday?
00:07 - Yeah.
00:08 - Happy birthday.
00:10 - It's Brett.
00:13 - I'm Isabel.
00:13 - Yeah, I know.
00:14 - Most relationships end.
00:21 Friendships, romances,
00:26 they break.
00:29 (dramatic music)
00:32 - You okay?
00:37 - If you look closely,
00:42 you'll find something tragic is happening.
00:45 - Are you interested in writing something for us?
00:50 - I don't do assignments anymore.
00:52 - Yeah, well, you're a better writer
00:53 than most people do anything.
00:55 Have you heard of the tapes?
00:56 - No, of what?
00:58 (dramatic music)
01:01 - I wanna be in the story.
01:16 Really inside the story.
01:24 - And build a thesis that shows how all of this is linked.
01:28 - I gotta be honest with you, I don't understand.
01:32 I don't see it.
01:33 - You go and write your stories.
01:37 Folks need to know about this.
01:38 - You're trying to make sense of racism,
01:42 but your thesis is flawed.
01:44 - It was all lies.
01:47 They knew we weren't inferior.
01:51 - You don't escape trauma by ignoring it.
01:54 You escape trauma by confronting it.
02:01 - I don't write questions.
02:05 I write answers.
02:10 (dramatic music)
02:14 (gentle music)
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02:29 [BLANK_AUDIO]