It was nice to see this movie again. I hadn’t seen it in many years. I love the blue people! Not to be confused with the hilarious 12 year old Avatar.
The movie starts with Jake Sully spending over 5 years in space to get to one of Jupiter’s moons Pandora. This moon has life on is that is more spectacular than earth. There are also native people to the planet called the Na’vi. Jake is selected to be apart of a science team that studies the Na’vi. His brother died and had an avatar made for him in the form of a native. Since Jake has the same DNA he goes even though he doesn’t have any training besides being an ex marine.
He gets recruited by the bad guy to be a double agent for the mean guys who want to access the natural resources below a giant tree where the natives live. He lives with the Na’vi while secretly telling Mr. Bad Guy about the tree. Soon however, he falls under the spell of the beautiful Neytiri and realizes that the natives connection to the planet is more powerful than anything else. Jake my Jake! ( Neytiri has a very funny and ugly cry)
The Na’vi share a connection with their planet in every aspect of their life. They are able to connect to their ancestors through a Tree of Souls. They know that every creature on the planet’s life is important. They only kill when they have too. It is very beautiful the connection they share. Their entire existence relies on these connections between themselves, nature, and all the living creatures.
The film has been described as a grand example of eco-terrorism. Eco-terrorism usually refers to acts of violence committed in support of ecological or environmental causes. The military are destroying environments on Pandora in order to extract a valuable resource that lies in the earth of Pandora. Mr. Bad Guy will stop at no cost in order to fulfill his job of collecting as much of this stuff as possible.
At the end of the movie all the native tribes band together to stop Mr. Bad Guy from blowing up their Soul Tree and the destruction of their planet. Most of Jake’s friends die during this battle and he almost dies himself. Thank goodness his giant native girlfriend saves him from almost dies of lack of oxygen. In the last scenes the humans are shown leaving Pandora and Jake’s soul is permanently put into his avatar body by the Na’vi and the spirits that live in the Soul Tree.
I am so pumped for Avatar 2 in 2021!!!!!!!!
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I really liked reading your post because I felt you integrated your thoughts well into your reflection of the movie analysis. I am also excited for Avatar 2! It will be interesting to explore the role of nature and feminism into the sequel!
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Thank you for the post and great work! You said, “The Na’vi share a connection with their planet in every aspect of their life.” It’s unfortunate that we have to make a sci-fiction movie in order to illustrate how important our environment around is. We share a deep connection with our natural world too. The eco-terrorism you mention is also real in our lives but unfortunately, there are many problems and it sometimes difficult to put a face on our villain.
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