* BIG SPOILER * dont read this if you planned to watch Avatar.
I went to watch Avatar yesterday. To be frank, take away the tiny flaws in the plot of the story, i have to say it was pretty entertaining and i enjoyed it very much. Its good that sometime we go to watch movie without any expectation and when its still oven hot, there wont be much reviews from others which may creates certain biasness and expectation in our mind.
The perfect example- New moon, get what i mean?
James Cameron must be really craving for a BIG comeback after the history making Titanic blockbuster, cuz Avatar is a movie with gob-smacking sensory overloaded visuals impacts. It was action packed, full with vivid colors, beautiful and almost magical sceneries, but the most captivating thing about the movie is that the 3D scenes are almost human real without the cartoonish/anime-nish look.
I went to watch Avatar yesterday. To be frank, take away the tiny flaws in the plot of the story, i have to say it was pretty entertaining and i enjoyed it very much. Its good that sometime we go to watch movie without any expectation and when its still oven hot, there wont be much reviews from others which may creates certain biasness and expectation in our mind.
The perfect example- New moon, get what i mean?
James Cameron must be really craving for a BIG comeback after the history making Titanic blockbuster, cuz Avatar is a movie with gob-smacking sensory overloaded visuals impacts. It was action packed, full with vivid colors, beautiful and almost magical sceneries, but the most captivating thing about the movie is that the 3D scenes are almost human real without the cartoonish/anime-nish look.
Avatar talks about human invation into a foreign planet of an indegenious species called Na'vi to mine for a precious mineral. Jake Sully, an ex marine who was paralyzed from the waist down was hired as the driver (through neural links) for Avatar, a biological replication of Na'vi species created by human. The Avatar programme aimed at diplomacy between the two population however Jake Sully was the mole who repurpose the programme from diplomacy to espionage.
What's unexpected was Jake fell in love with his new body, new identity, new culture, new home and Neytiri, the teacher and the princess who taught him everything about being a Na'vi. He soon realized Pandora (the greens) and the Na'vis are too precious to be destroyed by humans and the realization led him to road of betrayer for his own species.
My movie kaki felt that Avatar is the Sci fi version of Disney's Pocahantus story, except that Jake Sully become the de facto leader of the indegenious population while John Smith had failed miserably, leaving behind Pocahantos and the colors of the wind. To me, it was not much of a love story, but more of a man whom was given a second chance to live again. In the Navi's body, Jake had experienced the life which he can never experienced in his crippled body, although his physicals was still in the human's world, but his conscious and heart is with the Na'vis. Well, given the chance, who wants to be associated with human whose greed is a never ending black hole.
Avatar was not the first movie which describe cruelty of human against the other life form, the inhuman act of human in District 9 preceeded Avatar in many ways. Its kinda funny to see the crowds in the cinema shed tears when the Na'vis were butchered and cheered when the human troops were killed, what an irony. In my opinion, it wasnt something which is outrageous or absurb, if human are mass killing themselves (genocides, war), what stopping them from killing the 'aliens'?
My movie kaki felt that Avatar is the Sci fi version of Disney's Pocahantus story, except that Jake Sully become the de facto leader of the indegenious population while John Smith had failed miserably, leaving behind Pocahantos and the colors of the wind. To me, it was not much of a love story, but more of a man whom was given a second chance to live again. In the Navi's body, Jake had experienced the life which he can never experienced in his crippled body, although his physicals was still in the human's world, but his conscious and heart is with the Na'vis. Well, given the chance, who wants to be associated with human whose greed is a never ending black hole.
Avatar was not the first movie which describe cruelty of human against the other life form, the inhuman act of human in District 9 preceeded Avatar in many ways. Its kinda funny to see the crowds in the cinema shed tears when the Na'vis were butchered and cheered when the human troops were killed, what an irony. In my opinion, it wasnt something which is outrageous or absurb, if human are mass killing themselves (genocides, war), what stopping them from killing the 'aliens'?
The movie was indeed an eye opener.
4 comments:
You watched the 2D or 3D one?
the avatar itself doesnt attract me very much...not very pretty hahhaa merry xmas
@Pikey: i actually went for the normal 2D cinema, should have opted for the 3D, how about you?
@manglish: You need to see beyond the physicals, hahaha... In fact, its kinda weird in a sweet way at the scene where the big bluish Neytiri hold the human Jake Sully in her arm.
It seems good for me.
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