I ORIGINS

We’ve heard the quote, “Eyes are the window to our souls”, well, what are souls?

That’s the sort of line we could hear from the lead of the movie, I-Origins, Ian Grey. A scientist who is a core believer in data and facts is forced to re-evaluate his entire belief system when he falls in love. Being polar opposites, they question the age old debate of science v/s spiritualism.

They say, every one of us has one thing unique in us, our eyes. What happens when we die, is it assigned to someone else? Is rebirth actually possible? Is it possible that throughout the millennia that humankind has existed, no two people have had the same pair of eyes? And if they do, is it a mere coincidence or are the two people similar in some way?

Ian goes from dismissing rebirth, spirituality as irrationality; to actually finding evidence that proves all of it through the one thing he knows best, eyes. He is ultimately forced to ask himself : What if something spiritual disapproves of his scientific beliefs?

Science and faith can be seen to co-evolve in a beautiful way. Ian and Sofie represent science and spirituality respectively. Like how spirituality can explain soulmates as ‘I feel we are connected from past lives’; science explains as, ‘When the big bang happened, all the atoms in the universe, they were all smashed together into one little dot that exploded 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 always known your atoms. My atoms have always loved your atoms.’

Catch this movie : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk4briOLrTQ