I Origins is a 2014 American science fiction romantic drama film written and directed by Mike Cahill.

At a Halloween party Gray encounters Sofi, a young woman masked with only hazel-speckled, ash-blue eyes visible.

They begin a relationship being deeply in love, despite Ian's hard rationalism in sharp contrast with Sofi's fey spirituality.

Ian accidentally splashes his eyes with formaldehyde and asks Sofi to call Karen, who administers first aid.

He tracks the pictures from the test to Idaho and the family of Paul Edgar Dairy, who had died just before their baby was conceived.

As a test, he helps Ian and Karen run some photos of deceased family members, plus various other people's eyes through the database to see if there are any other recent matches.

But when they reach the elevator, the moment the doors open Salomina panics and throws herself into his arms, too frightened to enter.

He picks her up and takes her down the stairs instead, with Salomina tightly gripping his neck, till they walk from the dark interior and step out into the light.

A post-credits scene shows Dr. Simmons scanning the irises of famous deceased figures finding many such matches.

I Origins was the second feature film by writer-director Mike Cahill after his earlier independent science fiction-drama, Another Earth (2011), also with actress Brit Marling.

[7] Although Fox Searchlight owned the rights to any prequels or sequels to the I script, Cahill decided to make I Origins independently.

The site's consensus states: "Writer-director Mike Cahill remains an intriguingly ambitious talent, but with the uneven sci-fi drama I Origins, his reach exceeds his grasp".

[15] Jordan Zakarin, of entertainment and media news website TheWrap, said that "The movie starts as a love story and then morphs into a thriller, propelled always by the push and pull of faith and logic, with tragedy shifting world views over time".

He continued, saying that "The message is both micro and macro, aimed at the renewed war in the United States over issues like science education and contraception, as well as Cahill's way of working out his own mixed emotions".