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Top 5 Themes from Avatar

12/30/2009

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Have you seen the movie? If not I highly suggest you do! Its multidimensional. Dont listen to the critics who tell you its all about the next step in CGI. The story line has plenty to offer. Without giving anything away, here are my top 5 themes of the movie.

1) We live in an interconnected biosphere. What's not to get people? Really I dont understand. 1 thing impacts another, and so on and so on. What's so hard about that?

2) When scientists (especially women in the movies) go up against the privitized military industrial complex, expecially when they are in bed with the megacorp, they lose! Or do they???? I'm not trying to draw parallels between our own former VP and the company he was running....I'm sure that was purely coincidental.

3) Read my lips. Privitized military is bad bad bad. ....Only out for a buck, not accountable to anyone, and hmmm strangely very familiar (see #2).....Ahem, anyway.....Repeat after me BAAAAD!

4) The planet will not only fight back she will win! You can call it revenge for poor stewardship if you like. Whatever! But to quote an old commercial from the 80's..."You don't mess with Mother Nature". Especially when she has help from those who know how to "plug in".

5) Never underestimate the power of ten foot tall, highly intelligent, super athletic, nature loving, blue monkey/cat/people. They will kick your ass!

Yesterday I read a blog where the writer suggested that the bluefolk should have been more technologically advanced. They should have kicked the human's ass form the start.  To which I say....Technology is not the only measure of a happy, healthy, intelligent, and advanced society. I say look beyond the trappings of the modern day. Look beyond your keyboard and smartphone. There is a world out there!

What say you??
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venusaquarius link
1/4/2010 10:49:39 am

Yes, grasshopper, I agree. What does our future hold, will it be 'survival of the fittest' or 'the meek shall inherit the earth'? Whoever lasts will not be needing our unsustainable, exploitive, materialistic technologies. I believe that Avatar touches something very primal in many of us, the desire for connection to the real magic of our Earth, our home. But in our collective case, we feel the pain and frustration of being on the side that doesn't take sides. We want to defend the fragile, the wild, and the unknowable. The bullies use weapons we shun. Your point #4 is a fantasy that is all the more powerful precisely because so far it has never come true. I wish we could appeal to, and count on, Nature to help us right now, right here. That is either a skill we have long forgotten how to use, or one we are not ready to play with. Or she has her own plan. I say make friends with her asap.

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tigerlily
1/9/2010 09:44:28 am

I agree that the movie has some good messages, but I was taken more by the visual beauty of the film. I was captivated from the moment I put on my glasses! Love that 3-d. I wanted to be Jake and stay forever. Sigorney Weaver was at her best. I agree with the themes you have outlined—my favorite, #5. There was also a theme about the power of transformation. The movie was really exceptional.

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