I am not very much educated when it comes to the word "Avatar". But I first encountered the word at Yahoo Messenger. I learned how to make one and I uploaded it as my profile picture. It is a cartoonic version of myself... and I am free to change its clothes, hair, eyes, nose, lips and others so that it would look exactly like me. That's how far and limited my knowledge about Avatar is. So when a movie with a title "Avatar" came out and it's written and directed by James Cameron...I knew instantly that I have to see it to increase my shallow knowledge about it.
I watched the movie just a couple of days ago. Truly, my knowlege is but a pinch of salt. I thought the movie was similar to a Japanese Anime...and purely CGI (computer generated imagery). But hey, there were real actors wearing real clothes and shoes, real plants, real computers, real battle gears...and gadgets that looks real. I was not familiar with Sam Worthington until now. In fairness, he's a very good Jake Sully. I wondered for an hour or so if his legs are really like that - paralyzed. The power of effects could sometimes become unexplainable to ignorant eyes.
I entered the world of Avatar without any expectation...only trust. Because I know James Cameron is an excellent director - Titanic is a big proof. So I trust that any movie he directs is automatically..."awesome"
I am thinking of the best way and the best words to describe Pandora. For those who haven't seen the movie yet, this will help you http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_(2009_film) It is a forest looking place - only more colorful and brighter just like a moving coloring book. There are birds, animals and people - only different and bigger. They are aliens to our eyes and yet I find them all beautifully made. Even the fiercest animal looks attractive to me. For a moment, I envied Jake Sully. I wanted to enter the world and touch that huge frightening orange bird with my own hands. Pandora (if it happens to be real) might look scary for an individual but sometimes if accompanied by curiosity, fear could be an encouraging tool to try something unknown. My imagination ran along with the movie. I imagined myself riding that huge bird and forming a bond thus making myself its owner - wooo...that would be one gigantic pet. I have a long hair, so I am confident that we'll have a strong bond. I imagined myself running fast, climbing trees, picking up fruits together with the na'vi (citizens/natives of Pandora). I imagined myself free...like them.
Pandora may be different to my eyes. But my mind reminds me that besides their physical, nothing about them and their world is different from ours. They have a God and her name is Eywa. We have a God and His name is Yahweh. We have several forests too with animals of various kinds. It's up to us how and when are we going to explore them and choose whether we want to try the wild life or be content living inside our own boxes. Trees and plants are not unknown to us as well. The na'vi have bluish skins, tails and have a height of at least 10ft tall - Tarzan might have lived with them in the past because they act and live like him. Still- despite the physical differences - their thoughts and hearts are similar to ours...if not better. They have a strong faith to their God, they care for their children and their future, they love their land, they have a strong sense of unity and they are proud of their race. - Now that I think about it...I think the reason why I find their world attractive is because...lately our own world is lacking those qualities I mentioned. And just like in the movie...more often that not it is the rich and the powerful who takes advantage of the poor and less educated people.
How unfortunate it is that instead of them being the lifesaver...they become the killer...in order to feed their selfish ambitions. When you think about it...living in the wild is a surefire way to learn important values which a regular school might fail to teach and which success and fame could take away. It is now easy to see how ambition, power and money could erase values and good manners from a person's system...which I often hope not to happen to me or to any of my loved ones.
Avatar is an awesome movie. And besides increasing my knowledge about the word...I am secretly wishing I have my real Avatar...just think how nice it would be if I'm just lying in a bed or a chamber, resting my body and letting my Avatar do my day's work- that would be awesomely fun!
I strongly recommend this movie! Happy Christmas Everyone!
