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A Single Mass: An Origin Review
The delicate coating of truths outlined in Origin, Director Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner, Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste, gives life to the notion that “race is not where the line is drawn.” Wilkerson’s work weaves together the atrocities imposed on Jews at the hand of Nazi Germany, the plight of India’s Dalit, and the lives of descendants of Africa in America in a way that we’ve never seen done before. DuVernay gives visual life to these truths that we’ve all known, in a way that will be branded in our hearts and minds forever.
“The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.”
