Tuesday, January 05, 2010

AVATAR...the coming age of political satires

So let me say this first...I hate 3D movies, and in this, I might be alone, but well, i do hate the fact that I can't see clearly... and having images that close to me is just not cool.
But thats beside the point...lets discuss the real movie.
Now, its heartbreaking that some people did not like the movie...but then again, I am wondering if these are the same people who are blind about such things as new imperialism and outsourcing.
ladies and gentlemen Pocahontas meets Dances with Wolves in Avatar. Avatar besides besides being futuristic...and having digital sophistication, is as spiritual, political and well social satire of sorts. I find no fault in the production and editing, nor in the sound...more importantly, I am impressed by how Cameron managed to weave so many themes in one story. But lets not kid ourselves here...there is a blatant display of Cameron's disgust of the political conditions in Iraq and the US presence there. But not just the US, you could definitely make a case for the condition of the North and South relations in World politics. The movie has themes of love, imperialism, environmentalism, and lets not forget the idea of a superior genes...here, we see Kipling again, in his "white man's burden" suit.
A nation runs out of its resources, ( misusing those resources and exhausting them) then goes to another planet to find some more energy or resources. TO be able to do so, they use their "big bad " machines to not only kill, but destroy a planet that was flourishing. They use the easy way or the humane way by offering education, but then they lose favor because the "natives" are too smart to be outsmarted. So since the education and clothes do not work...they turn to the machines.
sound familiar...
let me see...Imperialism in the third world, the native Indians in the US....
the present new imperialism, the oil battles in the middle east...
its no wonder this movie got under people's skins....

1 comment:

Azazel said...

Lol ur just blogging about this? Damn