https://www.npr.org/2024/01/15/1224037292/caste-ava-duvernay-origin
'When filmmaker Ava DuVernay first read Isabel Wilkerson's 2020 book,
Caste:
The Origins of Our Discontents, she was so stunned, she reread it twice. The
bestselling book draws a line between India's caste system, the hierarchies of
Nazi Germany and the historic subjugation of Black people in the United States.
"It took me a really long time to wrap my mind around the idea that there's
something underneath racism that's called caste," DuVernay says. "It doesn't
mean racism doesn't exist. It means the foundation, the root, the origin,
underneath is the very simple premise — someone has to be better than someone
else."
DuVernay was warned that
Caste was too complex to adapt into a film but with
each reading she felt a story emerge more clearly. Her new movie,
Origin,
centers on Wilkerson, played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, as she explores how
understanding the caste system can deepen our understanding of what Black
people experience in America. DuVernay describes it as "a film about a woman in
pursuit of an idea."'
Via Frederick Wilson II.
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