Ok so most of us, minus some certain unnamed upper management, thought Avatar was a fantastic film, which I agree with in everything positive said about it, however I feel there was some negative aspects to the film that must go mentioned, just so we can truly better understand the social and political impact this film will have.
First and foremost lets talk about the strongest focus of the entire movie and that was Nationalism(or the lack thereof). The main character of the movie is Jake Sully a Marine, a soldier trained in the art of death, yet the discipline and patriotism only few can obtain. He comes to this planet of Pandora in order to aid the military effort(corporate controlled) retrieval of a unobtainium(really not important because they did not really tell u what this stuff does).
What bothers me(or not really but for sake of devils advocate) is that a Marine is a loyal soldier trained to protect his brothers, yet when comes to meeting a large amazonian alien woman he decides it is ok to go and kill his fellow Marines who are only doing there duty to protect the human race by mining this important mineral for their survival. So isn’t he really the murderer, not just a betrayer to his people, but a full blown Navi Terrorist. Yes the political system which is working to obtain this material is flawed, however it does not mean, letting the human race die, when as seen by the end of the movie, the tree was not vital to the survival of the alien race. Plus there aliens….before we came to them, they were constantly coming to our planet, abducting us, probing us and spawning there young inside our stomachs. So Jake Sully, hero or traitor? I say Traitor….sad day for Nationalism.
Another negative thing about this movie is its effects. They are just to damn gorgeous, so gorgeous that it makes the effects of "life" seem bland and uninteresting to exist in anymore. The colors were rich, and the perception was Three dimensions, lacking that pesky fourth dimension, yet giving you more than simple X and Y Axis. The Z axis is beautiful and complete. I went to work today, expecting 3D but was sadly disappointed in my Fourth Dimensional experience, 1 dimension to many….check please…
Lastly……are the alien woman hot? You know this one left me feeling awkward, something I don’t like to feel after a movie. Yes there tall, 3 times the size of humans, big boned perhaps? Yet there abs are flat, there rears shapely, but there hair tentacle receptacle strangely enticing. So I am not sure how I feel about the Human/Navi love relationship hat was going on and if i was Jealous of it, or spiteful. Either way….it left me no longer knowing Who I really am and What I want. Is my wife ever going to be Alien enough for me again? sigh, so the struggle of life continues….
I don’t remember the part in the movie where the unobtainium (heh) was important to the survival to the humans. I remember that it went to 20 mil a kilo.
Correct me if I am wrong….
If only greed motivated Ribisi’s character then we have to see the human’s mission in a completely different light.
You wouldn’t be saying those things if you had the experience I had after watching the movie for only 45 minutes. I began to have a mild headache, nausea and vertigo. I had to leave the theater because the movie was producing such uncomfortable side-effects. My husband watched the entire length of the movie. He said the movie was great. Of course, he did not have the same experience as I did. I felt strange for several hours after we had left the theater. No more “Avatar” for me. I did not enjoy the movie one “Iota.” I read in the BBC news that a man from Taiwan died after watching the movie. He died about five days later from a cerebral accident.
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