Once a crazy went to watch a crazy movie!
It’s weird. Cannot say that I enjoyed watching the movie. But the Avatars are haunting my sleep for last two days. Certainly, James Cameron is successful in creating impacts. I am not the right person to review the movie, but adding some loud thoughts.
As an opening note the character Jake is impressive. A synonym of modern day youngster who takes interest in life and experimenting it big time. The substance of the movie, the Na’vi creatures and their super natural abilities reminded me of a rare mixture of Indo-Egyptian and Greek mythologies. On one hand they looked like Hanuman and his monkey troop, on the other their face and hair, reminiscence of Egyptian pharaohs. The large flying birds can be directly correlated to Phoenix.
I could not relate Pandora as a remote earth like planet. Rather, could easily relate old and modern world. If you time travel the Pandora has all the settings of earth in Vedic times or similar mythological times. The era where man was in harmony with nature and spiritually connected to trees and the world around him.
On the logical side, if at all there is an earth like planet somewhere in the galaxy, on what grounds we can say the form of life and the evolutionary process over there is same as earth.
Why that life should look like life on earth?. Why should there be horses and dogs? Why the ultimate form intelligence in that planet should walk on two legs and have similar emotions and morals like us? Can that intelligence be in some reptiles or something that walk on 4 legs? Smarter Snakes and elephant or scorpion like creatures….possible..who knows?
The underlying message of Pandora is the earth itself. West has the same imperialist temper to ambush into other nations without valuing their culture, religion, polity and beliefs. Avatar puts forth a good criticism of colonial life. You would have seen Colonel Mikes and RDA corporations in Iraq, Afghanistan or vietnam.
Finally, the futility of war is well portrayed. You never win a war. The winner only survives, a survival as good as death.
On an end note, the film has technical excellence. Sentiments are well utilized. Along with Jake you will fall in love with some bizarre man like beings.
Take a roller coaster ride of your brain, watch Avatar!!!! .
1 comment:
Those movies are not my type of entertainment. Neville saw and he didn't like it. But in Oscar, the movie bagged lot of awards.
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