open-ended sci-fi movie
Bliss Is the Worst Kind of Open-Ended Sci-Fi Movie
Does Mike Cahill feel seen? The 41-year-old writer-director of science fiction has now made three films, each higher-profile than the last, about ways of seeing. This is literalized most literally in the second of these efforts, I Origins, which is also, not unrelatedly, the worst titled. Released in 2014, it's about vision scientists searching for the origin of the human eye--look, a pun--which, if you didn't know, is "the window," as one character literally says, "to the soul." They find it in the genes of a sightless worm, but not before Karen, played by Brit Marling, warns her lab partner that she, at least, has no interest in getting famous, in being seen: "Recognition makes me nauseous," she says.
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