Avatar is indeed a very enigmatical piece of film by its writer-producer-director James Cameron, yet it showcased symbolistic scenes that enables viewers to solve the puzzling meaning behind what those scenes prognosticates. Summing the whole film, in the distant future, Jake Sully, a paraplegic war veteran, is offered a second chance in the military. He’s transported to a planet called Pandora, where the world’s armed forces have been put in a fierce battle against the planet’s native species (the Na’vi). For years, struggling to mine a vital energy source for Earth, which rests under the Na’vi settlement. Jake takes part in anew strategy, which involves regular human DNA being mixed with DNA fragments of the natives to form an avatar’ which is essentially a human disguised as one of the creatures themselves. Jake is told to act as a spy within the Na’vi camp, learning their culture, and more importantly their weaknesses.
Human nowadays is alarmed by existing contagious dilemmas the world is experiencing. Problems here… problems there… problems everywhere, until it came to a point where we can’t afford to find elucidation, or even a simple remedy to mediate our problems.
Avatar is only one of the films in our present time which barely exists to edify our minds on “what’s going on” in our planet. Everyone is aware of the ear-splitting din issues on climate change, economic recession, stained politics and many more that we doubt if we can count if we will enumerate it one by one. These issues needs human concern, definitely “deep concern” to outscore the mountaining problems.
The film Avatar hiddenly showcased the occurrence of these events in the movie. We can clearly see those scenarios if we have opened our minds and use our logical imaginations to realize its existence. Avatar film vividly suggests us, enables us to see the picturesque of our world today. What us, humans did to it and for us to value it more than ourselves.
In my own view, I really like the story though it’s a sci-fi piece because we can connect it to our real world. By watching it, we can learn more and be more vigilant in facing problems in environmental, economical and political aspects. One part of the film, a human, who acted as the mind of the military troops, showed a stone-like thing, which he said a “vital source of energy for Earth” and that they have to invade the settlement of the Na’vis, which is Pandora to achieve their desire of mining the “stones”. See? Try to figure out the linkage between what is happening to us today and what the scene reflects? Well, in my own point, we are aware of the high level of technology we have right now. What the brilliant minds of the intelligents have discovered that indeed gives human advantage of making works easier. Like what everyone says, we are now in the modern world--- the world of high technology! Human keeps on inventing, discovering, producing machines only thinking about the advantages of their products. Do they know its disadvantages? Just like taking a medicine, did it have side effects? Well, this is what happens, because of our too much value to these technologies, human minds focuses only to their own good without knowing the effect of these materials in the environment. We are destroying our own home just to satisfy our desires. No one cares who will be affected where in fact, everyone is involved.
Another point, the climactic part of the film, when the military troops had attacked the Na’vis and bombarded their sacred tree, was the best part in my own view for it clearly served as the replica of human abuse on environment without even thinking that it can cause damages to human life. We keep on doing this and that’s why the problem concerning on environment is still unresolved.
For my seventeen years of existence in this planet Earth, I am definitely happy to watch this one-of-a-kind movie, Avatar. It made me realize to value things around us and be concern of what is happening. To end, Avatar is not only a blockbuster movie in my mind but deeply in my heart… two thumbs up!
