I loved Avatar. and I was surprised to read an article about people becoming depressed to suicidal after seeing it. They wanted to live on Pandora and saw life as it is as hopeless. They left the theater disheartened with humanity and feeling powerless to change their circumstances. They saw Pandora as an intangible dream.
I do get that and I can even see how people could feel that way, but I saw it as inspiring. I thought it taught us about how to live on Pandora, not that Pandora was intangible. Everyone was talking about the scenery. I thought it was amazing too, but I didn't see it as that sharp a contrast to our existence. I think that Avatar opened our eyes to how we are choosing to live. Do we have a divide and conquer approach to life like the military? Or do we seek to know and be known like the Na'vi? Isn't this what made hell look like a vacation resort compared to Pandora to the military, while being paradise to the Na'vi and to those who were assigned to get to know them? They were talking about the same place. I loved the line... “When people are sitting on shit you want, you make them your enemy so your justified in taking it.” There's the divide and conquer line.
Thoughts? I think it would be fun to challenge ourselves to look for a little bit of Pandora in our lives every day and to post your results. I'll be back to write more later. Stay tuned!
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