I was lucky enough to get tickets to see this in 3D last night - and boy, am I glad I did. Avatar was... just, amazing. I can't think of a word good enough to give it the credit it deserves.
What I thought was extraordinarily brilliant about this film was the way it made me genuinely dislike aspects of human beings - our ignorance being one of them. The humans in this film assume they know better, assume the Na'vi are inferior because they behave differently to us, which really does echo the truth. Which saddens me to think about. I found myself approaching tears a number of times throughout the film, which is weird because I'm usually very hardy when it comes to things like that. The experience was so vivid, so intense and so unbelievably real, I just couldn't help but get completely sucked into it. Even the Na'vi - these huge, blue, glowing humanoids - the more I watched them, the less alien they seemed, the more.. human they became, the more pleasing to the eye. Just amazing.
There was a line in this film that struck chords for me - "They killed their Mother Earth.. now they're here to kill yours." The killing of spirituality and nature is an evil I have always hated about my own race, and I really hope this film acts as a realisation to others who perhaps have never properly thought about it before. I don't want to say too much - nor create a spoiler in any way - but I'll say, there are parts of this film that shows a real destruction of a beautiful world, and I literally had to hold my hand to my mouth. In fact, a number of times I surfaced from my stupor and found my mouth gaping, along with my sister and all the rows of people next to me.
This isn't just a film, this is an experience. You just have to see it. Beautiful, breathtaking, and nothing like you've seen before.
Critic Review: AVATAR
I was lucky enough to get tickets to see this in 3D last night - and boy, am I glad I did. Avatar was... just, amazing. I can't think of a word good enough to give it the credit it deserves.
What I thought was extraordinarily brilliant about this film was the way it made me genuinely dislike aspects of human beings - our ignorance being one of them. The humans in this film assume they know better, assume the Na'vi are inferior because they behave differently to us, which really does echo the truth. Which saddens me to think about. I found myself approaching tears a number of times throughout the film, which is weird because I'm usually very hardy when it comes to things like that. The experience was so vivid, so intense and so unbelievably real, I just couldn't help but get completely sucked into it. Even the Na'vi - these huge, blue, glowing humanoids - the more I watched them, the less alien they seemed, the more.. human they became, the more pleasing to the eye. Just amazing.
There was a line in this film that struck chords for me - "They killed their Mother Earth.. now they're here to kill yours." The killing of spirituality and nature is an evil I have always hated about my own race, and I really hope this film acts as a realisation to others who perhaps have never properly thought about it before. I don't want to say too much - nor create a spoiler in any way - but I'll say, there are parts of this film that shows a real destruction of a beautiful world, and I literally had to hold my hand to my mouth. In fact, a number of times I surfaced from my stupor and found my mouth gaping, along with my sister and all the rows of people next to me.
This isn't just a film, this is an experience. You just have to see it. Beautiful, breathtaking, and nothing like you've seen before.
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