What I appreciate about Origin and why it is important as a message-based movie is that it provides an alternate discussion on race and racism that is new, makes sense, and is not an indictment on White oppression. In fact, it’s the opposite.
Let’s face it. The world is walking down the wrong path when it comes to racism, along with the worst forms of human atrocities and genocide based on borders, religion, and politics. Whatever we think the answer is, it’s the WRONG ANSWER. What Origin does is state that racism in America is not based on race, but it’s based on a Caste system comprised of the groups and the sub-groups that we belong to. 
“…racism in America is not based on race, but it’s based on a Caste system…”
In America, citizens are grouped by race. In India, it’s based on ethnic groups, and in the Middle East, it’s based on religion. Each caste is then placed in a hierarchy, with the ones on top in power and the bottom essentially treated as non-human. This is where outcomes of brutality, slavery, and genocide exist.
DuVarney takes Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor’s performance as a truth seeker and uncovers an America and specifically her community, unknowingly in a Caste system and that, as individuals, we are in this constant state of evaluating our status within our group and against the other groups. Unless you see equality, no one is right or wrong. No one is truly good or evil.
Yeah, I didn’t want to see this movie because I’m tired of the same old lectures on racism in America. DuVarney makes the film important by giving a new lecture. It doesn’t assign blame or create victims. This lesson forces us to consider systems we follow that prevent us from seeing our fellow brothers or sisters as equal to, instead of less than or greater than. Origin is an important movie for this single reason: to make us rethink race in America.
"…The world is walking down the wrong path when it comes to racism..."
