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So I went to see the latest smash hit, Avatar, today and this is what I have to say about it:
I. Nearly. Cried.
And I never cry.
It was so well done that I nearly broke into tears and sobs and make a general gushing, emotional fool of myself. In the theatre. Packed with people.
Yeah.
Anyway, it was slow at first--granted it's the beginning, so some time to get it rolling is not a problem--and I loved the entire idea of the planet, Eywa, basically being a sentient organism. The plants were a part of her, the animals were a part of her, and the people were a part of her. It was a beautiful, symbiotic wheel of life and I found the world even more so gorgeous compared to the one Earth is today: covered in garbage, teeming with insects that often times hold no respect for the very world they live and breed upon.
The contrast was so stark, it was sickening at first--but I got over it and told myself "it was just a movie", no matter how badly it put Earth's current state to shame.
I found the local fauna and flora just amazing (especially at night), but the one thing--the one thing--that nearly did me in was not the planet's native beauty....
.....but the humans.
I had never before been so disgusted, so appalled at this race ever before in my life, that I wanted to turn my head and dismiss their very presence on so virgin a world. They were terrible; and I don't mean that lightly. The common motivation of greed and corporate wealth had a huge hand to stir the pot and since the military was involved, it was like these mongers owned the military--which I do not doubt that they do in some aspects today.
Always about special interest.
But back on track, when the Na'vi hometree was toppled simply because the humans wanted some mineral, I was to the point of tears. Seeing the aliens cry, seeing the world's distress as well as theirs, I almost wanted to share their pain and cry out with them.
X'hiiiiiim, I am getting soft in my old age!
And even though people said this movie was cliche, I'd like to point out that the themes in Avatar are very well into our own reality, as well.
Greed, slaying of lesser peoples for own gain, destroying the environment to fuel wealth, etc etc; all are found on Earth so, therefore, with that logic our lives are undeniably cliche, no? Our lives are no more dramatic or overdone than this very movie, and it's true.
Or...or I'm just being cynical and loving the tree-hugging "hippies" while on a rant about how imperfect and corrupt reality is.
I'll probably have to go with Option B on this one. D:
Anyway, if anyone reads this (which I will be mightily impressed), go see the movie regardless of what anyone says! Let no critic, no reviewer, not even a close mate of yours deter you from seeing the beauty that is Avatar. And if you cannot appreciate it for what it conveys, then love it as a what it truly is: a movie, and just that.
I. Nearly. Cried.
And I never cry.
It was so well done that I nearly broke into tears and sobs and make a general gushing, emotional fool of myself. In the theatre. Packed with people.
Yeah.
Anyway, it was slow at first--granted it's the beginning, so some time to get it rolling is not a problem--and I loved the entire idea of the planet, Eywa, basically being a sentient organism. The plants were a part of her, the animals were a part of her, and the people were a part of her. It was a beautiful, symbiotic wheel of life and I found the world even more so gorgeous compared to the one Earth is today: covered in garbage, teeming with insects that often times hold no respect for the very world they live and breed upon.
The contrast was so stark, it was sickening at first--but I got over it and told myself "it was just a movie", no matter how badly it put Earth's current state to shame.
I found the local fauna and flora just amazing (especially at night), but the one thing--the one thing--that nearly did me in was not the planet's native beauty....
.....but the humans.
I had never before been so disgusted, so appalled at this race ever before in my life, that I wanted to turn my head and dismiss their very presence on so virgin a world. They were terrible; and I don't mean that lightly. The common motivation of greed and corporate wealth had a huge hand to stir the pot and since the military was involved, it was like these mongers owned the military--which I do not doubt that they do in some aspects today.
Always about special interest.
But back on track, when the Na'vi hometree was toppled simply because the humans wanted some mineral, I was to the point of tears. Seeing the aliens cry, seeing the world's distress as well as theirs, I almost wanted to share their pain and cry out with them.
X'hiiiiiim, I am getting soft in my old age!
And even though people said this movie was cliche, I'd like to point out that the themes in Avatar are very well into our own reality, as well.
Greed, slaying of lesser peoples for own gain, destroying the environment to fuel wealth, etc etc; all are found on Earth so, therefore, with that logic our lives are undeniably cliche, no? Our lives are no more dramatic or overdone than this very movie, and it's true.
Or...or I'm just being cynical and loving the tree-hugging "hippies" while on a rant about how imperfect and corrupt reality is.
I'll probably have to go with Option B on this one. D:
Anyway, if anyone reads this (which I will be mightily impressed), go see the movie regardless of what anyone says! Let no critic, no reviewer, not even a close mate of yours deter you from seeing the beauty that is Avatar. And if you cannot appreciate it for what it conveys, then love it as a what it truly is: a movie, and just that.