Avatar — A crash course

Is it possible to get a crash course on Imperialism and its effects, Socioecology and Environmental awareness? Yes, Avatar does it. A huge budget Hollywood commercial movie which speaks all the above said. The reason, I believe, why James Cameroon waited so long for the technology to grow was because he wanted things to appear real and want us to realize what he wants to convey. Since the movie was mainly promoted as a science fiction rather than a movie with a social message some feel that the movie lacks a strong story line.

Its a movie about the Na’vi (fictional humanoid residents of the fictional planet Pandora) fight for their planet and their rights. Its a movie which says “walk in their shoes” . And Cameroon succeeds in making us walk in their shoe. Na’vi can be replaced with any other indigenous people on earth and their fight to retain their rights and how we fail to understand them. And the plundering of Pandora is just what we do to Earth for our own benefits. The movie doesn’t disappoint anyone, for those who complain on the story part, just remember this is not a science fiction nor a romantic movie, but a movie that explores the other side which we fail to understand or refuse to understand.

One has to watch the movie to feel it. Watch the movie with an open mind and forget that you are humans and are on Earth for those 161 minutes, you would surely enjoy the movie as well as realize something.