Exploring the Nature of Existence in I Origins
Quotes about the film: [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/film-reviews/i-origins-luminous-cinematography-but-one-step-back-in-intellectual-credibility/article19759750/ I, Origins: Luminous cinematography, but one step back in intellectual credibility; [25 July; [2014]
*Liam Lacey, "," The Globe and Mail (] ]).
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Exploring Themes of Meaning and Existence
Quotes about the film: [[film; [actors; [appearing|looking; [good; [fantasy; [science; [faith]
Although the ] and the ] keep on ] ], this solemn, soppy, ] has nothing to say about ] or ].
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Exploring Identity and Science in I Origins
Quotes about the film: [http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140808/ENT02/308080011 Review:'I Origins' finds the balance between science and spirit; [8 August; [2014]
*Tom Long, "," The Detroit News (] ]).
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The Journey of Ian's Transformation
Quotes about the film: [[Mike Cahill (director)|Cahill; [film; [wonder; [rational; [glow]
] spends the entire ] bringing a sense of ] to the desperately ] Ian, and if the film takes on a ] toward the end, that glow feels well-earned.
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Exploring Identity and Existence in I Origins
Quotes about the film: [[James Berardinelli; http://www.reelviews.net/reelviews/i-origins I Origins (United States, 2014); [26 July; [2014]
*], "," ReelViews.net (] ]).
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Critique of Heavy-Handed Symbolism in I Origins
Quotes about the film: [[Mike Cahill (director)|His; [metaphors; [eyes; [obvious; [title; [example]
] use of ], especially those involving ], is heavy-handed and ]. (The ] being a prime ].)
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I Origins - Quotes about the film
Quotes about the film: [[ideas; [great; [motion pictures; [faith; [science; [Mike Cahill (director)|Mike Cahill; [Another Earth; [fails; [convincing; [dramatization]
Big ] can sometimes lead to ] ] or, as in the case of I Origins, colossal misfires. A wannabe examination of ] versus ], ]'s follow-up to ] ] to provide ] ] of his thematic thesis.
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Confronting Science and Spirituality's Conflicts
Priya Varma: [[scientist; [Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama|Dalai Lama; [scientific; [disproved; [religious; [beliefs; [look; [research; [understand; [clear; [evidence; [change]
You know, a ] once asked the ], "What would you do if something ] ] your ] ]?" And he said, after much thought, "I would ] at all the papers. I'd take a look at all the ] and really try to ] things. And in the end, if it was ] that the scientific ] disproved my spiritual beliefs, I would ] my beliefs.
Ian Gray: [[answer]
That's a good ].
Priya Varma:
Ian, what would you do if something spiritual disproved your scientific beliefs?
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The Nature of Light and Understanding
Sofi Elizondo: [[senses; [worms]
How many ] do ] have?
Ian Gray: [[smell; [touch]
They have two: ] and ]. Why?
Sofi Elizondo: [[live; [ability; [see; [know; [light; [unimaginable]
So, they ] without any ] to ] or even ] about ], right? The notion of light to them is ].
Ian Gray:
Yeah.
Sofi Elizondo: [[humans; [know; [exists; [mutation]
But we ], we ] that light ]—all around them, right on top of them, they cannot sense it. But with a little ], they do. Right?
Ian Gray:
Correct.
Sofi Elizondo: [[spirit; [world]
So, Doctor Eye, perhaps some humans, rare humans, have mutated to have another sense—a ] sense—and can perceive a ] that is right on top of us, everywhere, just like the light on these worms.
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Connected Atoms Across Time and Space
Ian Gray: [[believe; [known; [forever]
I do ] we've ] each other since ], though.
Sofi Elizondo: [[Really]
]?
Ian Gray: [[big bang; [atoms; [universe; [dot; [exploded; [always; [loved]
Yeah. You know how? When the ] happened, all the ] in the ], they were all smashed together into one little ] that ] outward. So, my atoms and your atoms were certainly together then, and, who knows, probably smashed together several times in the last 13.7 billion years. So, my atoms have known your atoms, and they've ] known your atoms. My atoms have always ] your atoms.
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Questions About Beliefs and Understanding
Ian Gray: [[favourite; [flower]
What's your ] ]?
Sofi Elizondo: [[Dandelions]
].
Ian Gray:
Okay, why?
Sofi Elizondo: [[free; [wild; [buy]
Cause they're ], ], and you can't ] them.
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I Origins - Dialogue 3
Sofi Elizondo: [[working; [God]
Why are you ] so hard to disprove ]?
Ian Gray: [[proved]
"Disprove"? Who ] that God was there in the first place?
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Connection Beyond Familiarity
Sofi Elizondo: [[see|saw; [night; [feeling; [known]
When I ] you that ], I…I had the ] that I had ] you. Actually, I felt like you knew me.
Ian Gray: [[mean]
What do you ]?
Sofi Elizondo: [[connected; [past lives]
Like we are ] from ].
Ian Gray: [[believe]
I don't ] in that.
Sofi Elizondo:
What do you believe in?
Ian Gray: [[scientist; [data]
I'm a ]; I believe in ].
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The Story of the Magnificent Moment
Sofi Elizondo: [[Phasianidæ]
Do you know the story of the ]?
Ian Gray:
The…no, what's that?
Sofi Elizondo: [[bird; [experiences; [time; [sings; [song; [love; [anger; [fear; [joy; [sadness; [sound]
It's a ] that ] all of ] in one instant. And she ] the ] of ] and ] and ] and ] and ] all at once, all combined into one magnificent ].
Ian Gray:
Where are you from?
Sofi Elizondo: [[planet; [happy; [sad; [sees; [beginning]
Another ]. … And this bird, when she meets the love of her life, is both ] and ]: happy because she ] that for him it is the ], and sad because she knows it is already over.
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Exploring the Nature of Existence
Sofi Elizondo: [[believe|think; [dangerous; [play; [God]
I ] it's ] to ] ].
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Exploring the Nature of Existence
Sofi Elizondo: [[married; [spiritual; [world]
We're already ] in the ] ].
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Connection and understanding in relationships
Sofi Elizondo: [[want; [cremate|burn]
I ] you to ] me.
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The Overflow of Desire and Beauty
Karen:
*:And when this feeling continues and he is nearer to him and embraces him, in gymnastic exercises and at other times of meeting, then the fountain of that stream, which Zeus when he was in love with Ganymede named Desire, overflows upon the lover, and some enters into his soul, and some when he is filled flows out again; and as a breeze or an echo rebounds from the smooth rocks and returns whence it came, so does the stream of beauty, passing through the eyes which are the windows of the soul, come back to the beautiful one; there arriving and quickening the passages of the wings, watering them and inclining them to grow, and filling the soul of the beloved also with love.
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Exploring the Nature of Human Connection
Karen: [[Plato; [Phaedrus (dialogue)|Phaedrus]
*The phrase Karen is referencing comes from 255c of ]'s ]:
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Exploring Connections Beyond Life and Death
Karen: [[India|there; [iris (anatomy)|iris; [pattern; [eyes; [brain; [cellular; [structure; [eye; [person; [neurological; [eye; [really; [window; [soul]
There is someone ] with Sofi's exact ] ]. The ] and the ] are connected. If—if the ] ] in the ] is reoccurring from ] to person, then maybe something in the brain carries over as well, like a ] link. Maybe the ] ] is some kind of ] to the ].
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The Value of Unexpected Discoveries
Karen: [[living; [lab rat; [rare; [discover]
To me, the best thing about ] like a ] is that sometimes, really ] times, you actually ] something.
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Discovering the Unexpected in Life's Journey
Karen: [[rock; [nothing; [progress]
Turning over a ] and finding ] is ].
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The Nature of Religious Beliefs
Ian Gray: [[religious; [scripture; [written; [men; [millennia|thousands of years; [beliefs; [changed; [challenged]
I'm not ]. … Religion is based on ] ] by ] ] ago. Those ] can't be ] or ]. They're fixed.
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Exploring the Nature of Existence and Identity
Ian Gray: [[Cremation; [obliteration; [mean; [future; [scientists; [selves; [D. N. A.]
] is like ]. I ], what if, in the ], the ]—what if they can reconstitute our ] through our ]?
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The Void Left by Connection
Ian Gray: [[feel; [hole; [painfully; [vacant]
You ever ] like when you met someone, they {{sic}} fill {{sic}} this ] inside of you, and then when they're {{sic}} gone, you feel that space ] ]?
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Perception and Understanding Through Experience
Ian Gray: [[child; [realised; [camera; [designed; [human; [eye; [light; [lens; [images; [pictures; [eyes]
When I was a ], I ] that the ] was ] exactly like the ] ], taking in ] through a ], forming it into ]. I began taking as many ] of ] as I possibly could.
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Exploring the Nature of Existence
Ian Gray:
*Opening line.
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Individual Perspectives on Unique Connections
Ian Gray: [[living; [person; [Earth|this planet; [unique; [eyes; [universe]
Every ] ] on ] has their own ] pair of ]. Each their own ].
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