December 26, 2013

Pandora 2014 better told by showing

A fitting 'avatar' Sheer coincidence perhaps that james cameron's 'avatar' has hit the theatres at a time when the world met at copenhagen to try and discover how to live in harmony with nature.Thematically very suitable and meaningful for the climate and time we live in and cinematically an event that overawes you with the mere scale of the vividly imaginative canvas that it opens before you.It is a treat to see, that takes your inhale away. Set in 2154, to expect the 'sky people'(Live people)On a journey of cure and exploitation.They land on planet pandora lived on by a race that, at the very to click here to see more info about bracelet charms me, looked enlightened by indian blue skinned gods.The tails of the natives might have easily come from hanuman and the vanar sena.The fierce looking birds they fly on just like the garuda, vishnu's motorcycle.And 'avatar' is mostly a reincarnation, an convert ego, that the humans create with the magic of science to copy physically the tall and graceful na'vi tribe, to spy on them and learn the best ways to manipulate and defeat them. The plot in many senses is relevant and an expression of the times we live in but a little too simplistic.The 'sky people' wish to use superior, harmful technology, to gain control all on top of the mineral rich planet.They generate pretensions of being humane, hesitant to kill mothers and children, so would rather to coerce them to leave their motherland.But if that will not work, they will be willing and open to destroy them, to have their way, to achieve the mineral wealth. Manner in which, we will have what we aim for, the usage of guile or force, whichever works more effectively.And if we face resistor, in the following pararaphs label it 'our war against terror'.As the war mongering colonel miles quaritch put it in can be, 'we desire to fight terror with terror'.The same excuse that we hear all over the world to use brute force. The only deflating part of the story to me was the climax.To tell the world that learning to live in harmony with nature is the only method to survival would have been Pandora 2014 better told by showing that stretching nature, far above the limits that nature sets for you, overexploitation, is a path to self devastation and suicide.Instead the film uses the same dangerous force like explosives and weapons to defeat the evil forces.I would have preferred a dawn of wisdom from the more intelligent twist to the tale.Instead it gave the look of succumbing to the limitations of american sensibilities.

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