Avatar

December 22nd, 2009

I truly was glued to the seat. I had a Pepsi, but I didn’t dare drink it – what if I had to pee? I’d lose three valuable minutes! And the CGI… Oh my! What a world they have created. If I had the chance to go live on Pandora I’d do it in a heartbeat. The Na’vis and the rest of the creatures on Pandora exemplify my idea of perfect harmony, something that should be ours as well, and no doubt, once was (or at least could have been) but is lost now.

It was a wonderful thing to see.

Yes, there were drawbacks. I’m not totally blind. It was black and white, it was naive, it was made simpler than it should have been, but I get why they couldn’t have made it more real. In the sense that in real life the end would not have been as victorious on the good guys’ side as it was in Avatar. If it was real, Pandora would have been nuked without anyone even considering thinking about spending a dime on something less brutal.

Wait. IF it was real? Shut the f*ck up. It IS real. It’s not happening on Planet Fantasy or Makebelief Moon, it’s happening right here on Mother Earth and I don’t see a happy ending waving hello.

So I get why it was made so simple.

Because who would want to see Avatar – a film that is basically shouting at us that we are ignorant money-junkies who only care about the me and nothing else, showing us that the very thing that we are is destroying the potential in us to become something more –

…if it would not have a happy ending?

…if it would not end with the audience giving out a major league sigh of relief?

…if we’d actually see that we are NOT off the hook, but that we ARE responsible for a lot of destruction and that there’s a whole lot of bad karma whooshing out of our every orifice?

Who would want to see the truth?

…

You know what?

Maybe it was meant to be so naive. So that when people see it they would recognize the fact that it is too naive. Maybe they would see that this ‘good conquers all’ mentality is suitable for kindergarten. And maybe, just maybe, people will then realize that it is real. The nuking of Pandora is happening. And one day it will end. But it will not end good. They would see that this movie is a wish, but that it is one that will never come true.

Or maybe I’m just searching for something that is nowhere to be found. I tend to do that a lot so I would not be surprised. But even if my epiphanies are only relevant to me, it’s a win-win situation, because my brain is not a machine gun and no-one must die after I’m done thinking.

Whichever way anyone ever wants to put it, for me it was beautiful. And it was sad.

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