I Origins Page #2

Synopsis: I Origins begins when graduate student, Ian Gray, is researching the evolution of human eyes with Karen and Kenny, in order to prove that eyes have evolved instead of "appeared" as creationists claim. His fascination with eyes takes him into areas that have profound personal and cultural consequences.
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Director(s): Mike Cahill
Production: Fox Searchlight
  2 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
57
Rotten Tomatoes:
52%
R
Year:
2014
106 min
Website
3,665 Views


The way you talked was,

like, poetic.

- It was weird.

- Shut the f*** up.

- It was so weird, dude.

- I can't believe...

Oh, sh*t.

This guy is painfully vacant.

Ian, look at him.

He's so painfully vac...

He's so painfully vacant.

F*** off.

Can I get a pack of

Verdict and a Powerball?

How much is that?

$11. 11.

Oh.

Lucky elevens.

Thanks.

Karen.

Mmm-hmm?

What are you doing?

Five percent of all animals

don't have vision...

...and there are 8.7

million species...

So I blasted PAX6 at the database,

but nothing came up.

So I started

sequencing by myself.

How many did you sequence?

Twelve.

You've done 12.

So, how many do you have left?

Like, approximately 426,000.

Are you going to write

426,000 names on the window?

I'm going to find it before I

get to the end of the window.

Okay.

What are you doing?

I'm not doing anything.

You know we could be looking

forever and find nothing.

Turning over rocks and

finding nothing is progress.

Burning papers into ashes

What a season

How they fly high

From the ground, oh

There is yet another fountain

Flowing over

As the night falls

Keep dreaming

Away

If you hold onto that past

Don't you lock yourself inside

Nothing has been done before

So, are you gonna

tell me where you're from?

So many places, I don't know.

Which places?

Mmm...

To make it short,

I was born in Argentina...

...and when I was 11,

I moved to France with my grandmother.

And your parents?

Next.

So, what do you do?

Next.

Why did you sleep

with me that night?

Poor judgment.

I was lonely for

a long time and...

...when I saw you

that night I...

...I had the feeling

that I had known you.

Actually, I felt

like you knew me.

What do you mean?

Like we are connected

from past lives.

I don't believe in that.

What do you believe in?

I'm a scientist.

I believe in data.

A scientist?

Mmm-hmm.

What kind of scientist?

Molecular biology.

I'm most fascinated

with the eye.

The eye, the eyes?

The eyes.

Why the eye?

The eye is the one sticking

point that religious people use

to discredit evolution.

They use it as proof of

an intelligent designer.

- Intelligent designer?

- God.

I'm looking to end the debate

once and for all with...

...clear, clean facts.

Data points of every

stage of eye-evolution.

Why are you working

so hard to disprove God?

Disprove? Who proved that God

was there in the first place?

Anyway, let's get some real

data points on you, okay?

Be my guest.

I prefer talking about myself anyway.

Okay.

Um...

What's your favorite...

Candy?

Strawberry Mentos.

Food?

Veggie burritos.

I'm vegetarian, you should know that.

What's your favorite flower?

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Mike Cahill

Mike Cahill (born July 5, 1979) is an American film director and screenwriter. more…

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