Origin is like looking at the instructions on how to build gallows so that we can dismantle it, take it apart, and tear it down.

As a white American male born into an upper middle class family, I don't feel comfortable analyzing this film because who am I to do that? What I can say is that, while I found watching the film to be a harrowing experience, many of the peoples addressed in this film find leaving their homes a harrowing experience.

Will this film solve that? Of course not, but this one and the next one and the one after that will slowly chip away at the mountain of oppression history has placed on them. While I'm often not a fan of films with a message, I'm fond of the message I found in this film.

[Note: I've read some compelling critiques of the caste theory presented in this film and by the woman this film is based on. While I'm no where near qualified to comment on that theory's validity, or lack thereof, I maintain that this patchwork movie encourages us to think about injustice and that's important enough for me.]

This movie needed a rewrite and a better editor. It has major pacing problems, entire plots seem disjointed and all of the Trayvon Martin additions seem forced in a movie that already starts to drag.

I imagine the book is great, but this adaptation is somewhat middling.

Another issue with the rewriting is that the character timelines seemingly don't add up - they seem to play fast and loose in character backstories - which is more confusing when combined with the prominent use of a Blackberry in the "present"

I had a lovely time watching this, I thoroughly enjoyed Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor's performance but unfortunately, there were plenty of moments that felt when it came to the emotional weight the main character was dealing with, just didn't hit as strongly for me. I do not know the book and have no interest in reading it so when it comes to the thesis being presented I am simply not intelligent enough to make a constructive comment. It's definitely 30 minutes too long and I kinda concluded that the material would have been more suited to a documentary-style film. The whole thing around what goes on in India to this day is something I didn't know which left me quite shocked.

I went into this movie completely blind, and I was surprised by how heavy the subject matter was. As a story and what really happened it all is very interesting and honestly one of the strongest aspects of this movie is that it taught me things that I never knew about India and left me thinking for about it for hours after it happened. This is a movie that made me want to look up more on the subject matter than any has in a long time. My only fault with the movie is that it felt a little preachy and sometimes when the emotional weight the main character is dealing with didn’t hit as strong for me. I don’t know if this is a movie I can watch again, but I’m glad I watched it this night.