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I Origins - what I saw

The film directed by a young American director I had never heard of is a thought provoking journey.  It is a story of a scientist and his wife (also a lab rat) who research the human iris and its connection to the very existence of the human. It dives into the Socratic notion of 'I know one thing - that I don't know anything' to some extent I thought. While the couple are ardent believers in the Big Bang theory and have no interest in considering 'divine intervention' as a possibility, their foundational belief is shaken with observed incidents. It therefore also takes the viewer into the realm of understanding the idea behind Occam's Razor.  Not Gillette mind you - Occam. Some ideas resemble those observed in another almost flat book I once read called 'Flatland'.  You believe what you see and what you see may be limited to where you exist.  Therefore the belief system is only as good as much as the laws that your kind defined to support the the...