In 2011, director Mike Cahill made his mark with ‘After Earth iyor and wandered through the controversial waters of science with his latest film, I Origins, which won him an award at the Sundance Film Festival. The eye structure is unique to every human being, and young scientist Ian strives to göz create an eye from scratch yık to break this argument against the ‘believer’ who uses the uniqueness of the eye as the basis for evolution.
In general, Ian is assisted by intern student Karen, who has an eye database of people she meets and who has a special eye database. The journey he begins to find and find the masked woman he meets at a party will take him on a journey full of coincidences and signs, and Ian will question his life based on scientific evidence on his spiritual journey. The film ’I Origins idd has an ambitious content, but the director outlines the subject without going too deep and the biggest strength of the film is the completeness and openness of the script fiction.
I Origins, which can be described as a film scientific film Tür as a genre, plays an informative task to the audience about the structure and characteristics of the eye in the first half hour. After watching Ian’s experiments, his aim, his eyes’ uniqueness and reproducibility, we meet the mysterious character of Sofi. Entering the life of Ian, who doesn’t believe in the existence of a supreme power that controls people, Sofi is the opposite character for both Ian and his assistant Karen.
Believing in the existence of spiritual power, elements of chance, chance, Sofi stands against Ian’s desire to play the role of God. The story that progresses between Sofi-Ian and Karen forces Ian to choose between the soul mate Karen, who acts in the light of scientific data, and Sofi, the ‘believer bağlam who relies on spiritual forces. I don’t want to tell you about the continuation of the film because the screenplay has many surprises and unexpected details for the audience, but Ian’s journey finally reaches India and goes through very different stages.
After the scientific introduction, Mike Cahill makes a comparison between believing or accepting the data of science without going too deeply, but the script constantly makes the final by filling in the gaps, making references to the first scenes, and finally satisfying the audience by entering in amazing details. In order to list the positive aspects of this film, we can put the narrative in the first place without squeezing its scientific content and lowering its tempo and secondly, we can put its successful script fiction in the second place.
For a film that touches on a wide range of issues from the science-religion conflict to reincarnation, the fact that the director does not take too much risk and keeps his film in an easy line without keeping away from popular elements is the only but important deficiency of Mike Cahill’s assertive film.
The film speaks little above the average about the philosophy it sets out and the arguments it produces, and ends its story without digging into the content of the subject. It is not possible to say that Cahill is a party, even though he points to the existence of a holy power through coincidences throughout the film and touches on miraculous events against evolution. This state of water does not touch the soap, albeit a little blocking the film’s potential.
I don’t have much to complain about when I tell the story about the movies that are told in a simple plane that is easy to read. Obviously, after being immersed in the music, the visuality and the flow of the story, I had a fun and sad time, and I can say that I resemble the director’s style to Jean Marc Vallee’s ‘Cafe de Flora’. In particular, you cannot predict how the film will be tied in the last half hour, but the last scene of the director’s reference to reincarnation and the transfer of memories seems simple, but it was impressive at the right place and time.
With the character Ian, Michael Pitt successfully plays the role of an emotion-free scientist, but Astrid Berges-Frisbey as Sofi is the most interesting actress in the film. This is one of the surprise films of 2014. Based on the films Another Earth and I Origins, I can say that Mike Cahills is one of the new directors to follow.
I, Origins (2014)
Directed by: Mike Cahill
Starring: Michael Pitt, Brit Marling, Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Steven Yeun, Archie Panjabi, William Mapother, Cara Seymour
Screenplay by: Mike Cahill
Production Design by: Tania Bijlani
Cinematography by: Markus Förderer
Film Editing by: Mike Cahill
Costume Design by: Megan Gray
Set Decoration by: Grace Yun
Music by: Will Bates, Phil Mossman
MPAA Rating: R for some sexuality/nudity, and language.
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Release Date: July 18th, 2014
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