I Origins

Réflexion existentielle intelligente avec des rebondissements de genre imprévisibles et attrayants pour le public. Impressionnant sur le plan émotionnel et intellectuel. "J'aime le pissenlit. Il pousse où il veut et tu ne peux pas l'acheter." (05/07/2014)

Je ne m'attendais pas du tout à une telle surprise. C'est un véritable bijou, parfaitement réalisé, merveilleusement joué et brillamment écrit. Les dialogues sont réalistes, les personnages complètement crédibles et l'histoire, dont le thème  principal est la confrontation entre la pensée matérialiste et spirituelle, frappe par son ingéniosité et son intelligence. L'intrigue charmante et émouvante est en réalité simple, mais réalisée avec une précision chirurgicale. Dommage que la bande-annonce en dévoile les trois quarts, car l'intrigue est en réalité imprévisible et le film parvient plutôt bien à en dissimuler la direction jusqu'à la moitié (un sujet similaire a été traité avec brio dans Cloud Atlas). Et surtout, attendez la fin totale des génériques, sinon vous manquerez une chute adorable. (01/07/2014)

If the first 20 minutes hadn’t seemed to drag for so long, it would have been be an excellent sci-fi from the near future. This way, it took a while for the interesting eye theory to develop, which I not only thought about for a long time after the movie was over, but which I also found pretty original. I didn’t learn anything new but the movie cemented my idea that I really enjoy movies like this that are similar to Perfect Sense. They take the world as it is today and slightly change it to include something undiscovered so far and they let that sink in. It’s interesting and original and that’s what counts when it comes to movies. (27/08/2015)

(49th KVIFF) This sci-fi movie is so non-conflicting that it’s almost unsuited for the festival. It’s the story of a molecular biologists whose research proofs the ungodly origin of the human eye, so that further research can then challenge this finding. The film doesn’t demand much from the viewer, never falls into a scientific rant or into deep philosophical speeches, even though it does have room for that. It’s well made, the story is interesting overall, even though it feels a bit too implausible and naive at times (for instance, the Indian woman who identifies a girl by a photo of an eye, even though she says she hasn’t seen her for several months). That said, in the middle of the bustle of the festival, I Origins felt like a pleasant rest and I was excited immediately after the screening, though the feeling fizzled out after some time. And yet, a nice four-star rating, the ending is very strong emotionally. (12/07/2014)

Undoubtedly an original theme and adaptation, but here and there Cahill commits punishable missteps (led by the final "pedophile" ten minutes "I need to close the past, so come with me to my room to collect strawberries, my ex love". Are they sure it could not be eighteen years later and instead of eight?), but they have nothing to do with whether it is on a (rational) scientific/spiritual level, because in both of them it is interesting, though not always well presented to the viewer. (19/01/2015)