Avatar Review
James Cameron may have placed this story on a moon called Pandora with alien characters, that could have belonged to human race if not being double the size, a longer face, sharper features, blue body, white fluorescent marks on the face and tail at the back.
Like those (very different) movies, ‘Avatar’ stretches the bounds of the cinematic imagination. It shows us something weve never seen before: an entire alien world, a new and complex ecosystem rendered in three dimensions with dazzling fluidity and detail.
In a way, the story is no different from what locals may feel in any part of the world when outsiders make an attempt to make inroads into their land to gain hold of their resources. This is what happens to Navis as well when their peaceful existence is challenged with American troops entering their world to gain hold of precious minerals worth billions.
Instead they try to win the natives trust by setting up schools, teaching them English and infiltrating their number with organic avatars, modeled on Navi DNA but controlled with a human consciousness which is where Jake Sully (Australian actor Sam Worthington) comes in. Hes a Marine and just naïve or innocent enough to score a free pass into the most suspicious of the local tribes.
Navi detest ’sky people’ and calls them Earth denizens. The mission is to get vast quantities of a mineral that Navi has and officials want to relocate Navi but Jake will never ever do it and will try to take it through negotiation. Jake gets lost in the forests and a Navi warrior Neytiri rescues him.
Sam Worthingtons Hair: It sounds ridiculous, but this is another detail that really stood out. Normally youll notice that an actor is given a hairstyle that they can have throughout the entire film, but Worthingtons hair changed with every time shift in the movie and it always looked completely natural. Yet again, nice touch.
Does one admire Cameron for the sheer vision that he has put to tremendous use in the making of ‘Avatar’? Does one pick up each and every frame in the film and start bisecting it for every pixel which has been designed to perfection? Or does one silently nod in approval for the familiar world of love, brotherhood, attachment, greed, misunderstandings and the ultimate reunion where spirit of togetherness is the ultimate winner?