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| Written by Iva Rudnikova, translated by Elisaveta Radeva |
| Sunday, 24 January 2010 20:01 |
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If Michael Moore ("Bowling for Columbine," "Fahrenheit 9/11"), the master of the populism and the cheap conclusions, had an imagination plus 300 million dollars, he would have been the author of "Avatar." Since he does not have the abovementioned, however, the writer of documentaries limited himself to the following opinion, posted on Twitter Dec. 12 last year: "Go watch "Avatar" - a brilliant movie for the time we live in. Don't get upset if the cinema does not have 3D - in 2D the movie is still awesome, after all it is the story that matters!"
(You know - "Avatar" is the new catastrophe of the director of "Titanic" James Cameron.) Being praised by Michael Moore is equal to being cursed with "may Picasso paint you," or in other words, "may your head be deformed and your eyes be falling from one side of your nose, all thanks to a famous painter."
In the case of "Avatar," the eyes (of fear) are big and yellow, the nose is flattened, and the feet are not quick enough to run from the danger called man.
Therefore, it's not the story that impresses, but the way it was told. This is a 3D, but otherwise shallow movie, created by a 55-year old Canadian, who spends most of his time in his eco-ranch in Saint Barbara and has always been addicted to special effects, humongous budgets and the secret of the ocean. Since the product turned out to be something uniquely beautiful and unseen, something that everybody talks of, it turned out that the message of the movie was distorted by different authorities, for different needs. End without fairytale There's no room for speculations about what the author wanted to say. Everything is in the movie - ground, flatly formulated, yet repeated a few times. The human race is dominated by aggressors and conquerors, an insatiable tribe. Greed and imperialism are on its way to destroy the nature. The characters in the movie do to a virgin planet the same what we people have already done to the Earth. James Cameron carefully warns that driven by greed, people are on the verge of an ecological suicide. In an interview for "Liberation," the director even called his movie "a political commentary on the history of humankind."
The message of "Avatar" triggered many reactions. On Jan. 23, China stops projecting the 2D version in cinemas all around the country with the explanation that the movie is catastrophic and corruptive. According to "Times," the authorities of Beijing were worried about the inconvenient questions and parallels, which could have occurred in the viewer's minds. (Two days ago Reuters cited some Chinese sources, who disprove such motives and specify that the decision for not projecting the 2D version is purely commercial and was taken on the premiere night of the local production "Confucius.")
The Holy Father, on his turn, saw in "Avatar" danger of the divinization of nature. "Pope Benedict XVI warns that James Cameron's blockbuster "Avatar" tempts the viewers with the idea that the homage of nature may replace the believe in God," reads Vatican's newspaper "Oservatorio Romano." However, according to radio "Vatican," the movie is "winking to the pseudo doctrines which turn ecology into the religion of the century." In one of the blogs of "Amnesty International," an opinion that "Avatar" presents a danger for the public peace was expressed. The reason for this is that the movie represents the principle by which bigger corporations and industries take over poor communities in the developing countries in order to take advantage of the land and resources there. With all this background, it is kind of impolite not to like "Avatar" (already famous with its parody names, one of which "Dancing with the Smurfs," as Cameron admitted the influence he got from "Dancing with the wolves," as well as because of Na'vi's blue skin). But then, is it polite to spend $300 million to visualize three letters? SOS.
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Not sure (since I have not seen the film) but this might be also an allegory of Native Americans.