Sunday 17 January 2010

Avatar-a lesson from the aliens


Avatar was playing in the local theatre, here the English movies are dubbed in Tamil,

For the sake of the village vernacular, but it is sure odd to see and hear the folks from other planets speak in an Indian dialect.

With the net facility now,I made it a rule to read the plot of a movie before I go for an English thriller,or I wont know what is happenng other than see the actions .

As we had planned for the movie in advance I read the plot on google and all the details of the make.Wife kid and me got in time for the night show for 15 rupees a ticket.

The mind was not able to accept the strange fauna and the hanging rock formations and the usual show of military might for some time.

The director shows what we military are doing to other lands and cultures.(very courageous theme)

The movie needs to be seen in many angles, the looks of another planet Pandora,strange and alien and yet homely, lush and green and water falls and yet so different with the lizardy animals and Pandoralings ,the touch me not like plants was wonderfully done, if the Creator wanted an assistant for innovative creations on a planet am sure he will seek out Mr James Cameroon.

The mind could not manage the change in situations from science fiction modern gadgets to sudden primitive jungles; one could literally feel the tiredness of the characters who switch from the two different environments.

It was pagan worship, but with so much of intimacy beyond understanding, for even a villagers mind to see. Such religiousness exhibited on screen, for the modern world of the questioning kind, with no trust in nature.

It is the first time we see bow and arrows beat the guns, lots of lessons for the mighty military I guess who take orders from the muggers ( pun intended) who drink coffee sitting on arm rests of a chair, so casual, the military commander sipping coffee in his fighter bomber plane, was a great scene of arrogance and military stupidity.

Too many lessons here, if allowed I would like to do an interview with Mr Cameroon, as we are loosing things he may have wanted us to see and appreciate in this movie

Not good to compare creations of a creator, but the feast for the ears was lost, while it was so good in Titanic with the music which goes on playing in our heart with celine’s lyrics.

Even now after so many years.

Such a lot of hard work done with his creative style, the Director and team prepare us for possibilities of happenings in the future world

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