The rare intellectual exercise that’s also an emotional gut punch, writer/director Ava DuVernay’s Origin delivers its most emblematic sequence toward the end of its 140 minutes, when all of the movie’s many varied themes seem to intertwine in a heartrending, enraging true tale about a little boy and a swimming pool.
Caste Away: “Origin,” “Nimona,” “American Symphony,” and “Flamin’ Hot”
