http://www.blackwalnutent.com Anna Savelesky, Walla Walla, WA
TO me, Avatar has one thing on its side; the supreme desire of every gamer in the universe to become one with his game. The reveiwer has it correct on the rest. Perhaps all SciFi which I have enjoyed all my 65+ years life, is just another semi-religious parable expressing the desire of all good dogs to go to heaven even though we know contemporary astro physics indicates that heaven may be more like Sam Neil’s « Event Horizon » than Pandora. I have the CDs of a lot of Cameron’s earlier films which I enjoy revisiting. I’ll pass on Avatar, thanks.
Anon
Avatar’s a movie
Andrew Yee
I just finished watching the movie on DVD. I agree with both of your main points, Jonathan. I was so hopeful that we could, even in a 3 hour movie, explore another way other than fighting violence with violence. I thought that it was going to happen when Jake was trying to deal with Grace being shot and he came to the realization that he needed the help of the indigenous people. I was really hoping that we could we could go down a path to explore that a bit more– that we could maybe realize that we needed each other. The « humans » could have learned to see the gifts of the indigenous people. Maybe the indigenous people could have learned to widen their sphere of interdependency as well. Since this movie does not claim to be a documentary, I’m not totally disappointed that it doesn’t depict reality in the exact sense. But when it doesn’t, I hope that it could help model other ways of dealing with things like violence other than just falling back on the only ways that we know how to deal with it– more violence.