Is the movie Avatar antiwar or pro environment or both?
By Sourceseeker
@Sourceseeker (1197)
United States
December 24, 2009 2:45am CST
Is the movie Avatar antiwar or pro-environment or both? The movie builds up the military weaponry to a great extent but I dont think did a great job connecting the strength of the natives connection to nature as a defense against it. In the first attack they appeared helpless then were portrayed as afraid until this cloned alien came to show them the way.
However the connection to the ancestors and to nature was good juxataposed to the military with a dogmatic mindset of conquering.
Many people have said it had an anti war message and proenvironment angle. What war and from environmental angle did it slant?
3 responses
@Latrivia (2878)
• United States
27 Dec 09
Actually, the movie reeked of the tragedies Americans put the natives through. Pioneers would travel from point 'A' to point 'B' and leave reckless slaughter and waste in their wake. European colonists had little to no empathy for the beliefs of natives, and even less empathy for the Earth the non-human life occupying it. They coined the natives as "savage" and "inhuman", and did all they could to take over the land of the natives to use for their own gain.
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@thogojames (161)
• United States
7 Jun 10
i think that avatar was more of a show of how mankind is selfish and only thinks of ways to improve his financial situation without any consideration of any other creatures. i think that it potrays the real life situation where by man has cut down forest, overfished ,poached just to mention but a few.
@Dedgurlsingstheblus (233)
• United States
28 Dec 09
Hey again, Sourceseeker,
I was going through my RSS feeds and came across this link which discusses Avatar as a metaphor for the U.S./Iraq war. I thought that you might like to read it. The link is www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/48770.
