I ORIGINS (2014)

You'd think that a film about a molecular biologist (Michael Pitt), obsessed from childhood with the variances of the human eye, who stumbles across a scientific discovery that could change the world and what we believe as a society about creation as we know it, might be either too dull or too full of scientific mumbo-jumbo for the lay-person to become emotionally involved in.  Such is not the case with I Origins, a wholly original and thought-provoking film that, halfway through, hits you with a pair of sucker-punches that spin the film into an entirely new direction.  You have to pay attention, and for awhile might even wonder where things are going, but if you let go and enjoy the ride, the ending of the film is a quiet knockout that - at least for me - left me stunned and with a tear or two in my eyes.  To say anything more would spoil things; this is either a film you will embrace, even as it makes you feel uneasy, or really not "get" altogether.  Either way, it's a film not easy to forget. (rated R)  A-

I ORIGINS trailer