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Watching an action packed thriller in 3D makes it feel as though you are in and part of the film yourself as the twists and turns in the plot literally jump out at you. Sitting and watching I felt as though I was peering through a window on the world where the film could seemingly be real life; the 3D motion picture appearing so realistically.
Meanwhile, the fact that Avatar combines a military campaign, science and a love story sub-plot results in the film appealing to almost everyone. Set in what could quite feasibly be the not too distant future, the film begins with US Army Marines landing on a mystical planet where they are there to secure a resource where only a few grams is worth billions of dollars.
However, the indigenous natives have their symbolic and religious home on top of this resource and unsurprisingly as so many conflicts begin, they do not want to move. It is at this point that the Director of Avatar and past director of the Titanic, establishes clear parallels between the film and military campaigns and world conflicts that are currently unfolding in the world around us.
So much so that China only yesterday banned the screening of Avatar on the grounds that the film was trying to reproduce an unfair depiction of the suppression of the ethnic Tibet people in Western China for their resource rich land.
Other viewers and film critics have gone as far to say that the fight for this rich resource on this new planet epitomizes western imperialism and capitalist exploitation. With the symbolic fight being a futuristic adaptation of the British Army in the Boer War struggle for the control of Africa’s diamonds, the oil companies such as Shell in the Niger Delta purging third world populations from their oil rich land or suggesting how the War in Iraq was simply a battle over oil security.
Back to the film, here, three envoys, two cutting edge scientists and the main character xyz, who is a wheelchair bound marine that has been called upon to replace his murdered identical twin - who would have been the third scientist in the team, use the latest technology to lie in a capsule that creates an Avatar of themselves to match the physical identity and appearance of the indigenous species.
The purpose of this is that their Avatars that are real life creatures in the film can then cunningly seek diplomacy with the indigenous species and persuade them to move their spiritual home, leaving behind the precious resource for the humans.
When this does not work, the Marines take up arms and seek to destroy the home itself.
Again this tactic of seeking diplomacy, prior to destroying their home, almost as though diplomacy was bound to fail from the outset is again used in a representational way of other conflicts that are taking place now and today around our world.
With the Marine recognizing this he leads the indigenous tribal creatures in a fight against the Marines in an epic finale. I’ll let you watch it to see who wins. But the most poignant motive of the film is this last one.
Suggesting that if Marines were given freedom of who to fight for in their conflicts, would they always choose to fight for their superiors who commanded them? If they had a choice, would they be doing the fighting they are? Do they thing they are really delivering justice?
Again, I’ll leave that one down to you.[img][img][/img][/img]
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