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“Avatar”, the movie was touted by many as the biggest 3-D screen event of a lifetime. The movie grossed more than $1 Billion dollars in the first few weeks of its release. Written and directed by James Cameron, this movie has passed his other movie, Titanic, to become the largest grossing movie ever produced.
The Avatar story takes place on a far away moon called Pandora. Pandora is such a beautiful plant that once you leave the environment of the theater, regular life seems rather drab in comparison. The realization of hard reality is that we can become depressed knowing what our world is lacking.
The movie is about our relationship with the earth. "Most of us have become Ecozombies, desensitized, environmental deadheads. On average, society conditions us to spend over 95% of our time and 99.9% of our thinking disconnected from nature. This disconnect with nature is having a profound effect on our feelings of abandonment and wanting. We greedily and destructively consume her resources and cannot stop.
Avatar is about the religion of Nature and tries to answer, where has it gone? The current lifestyle on this planet has done its best to wipe it out, but nature still rules. Nature is the universe and the cause of it; our ancient ancestors saw that, and modern scientists, through keen methods of observation are rediscovering it.
For those who commune with pure nature, they understand how everything is connected. Without that grounding to the earth, nature is no longer seen as a living and feeling entity. It becomes considered as a “thing” and things like possessions must be conquered and dominated. Through this attitude nature is destroyed.
"Man talks of battle with Nature, forgetting that if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side." -- economist Fritz Schumacher
In order to save this planet we need to have a deep bond with nature and all living beings. This awareness needs to be cultivated in modern man if this planet is to become a paradise. There is a growing respect for others and this planet we live on, and seeing the planet Pandora makes us kind of homesick for the planet we lost.
The underlying theme of Avatar is that interconnectedness that exists and how we must re-align with nature. Everything and everyone should be respected no between everything on Pandora.
The message of the movie is that we need to re-align with nature in a religion of harmony because we are all ONE. Everyone and everything should be accepted and respected no matter how seemingly different they are from you.
In the Vatican's newspaper called L'Osservatore Romano, Gaetano Vallini criticizes the Avatar's aspect of "spiritualism linked to the worship of nature." Well, without links where does that leave us? DISCONNECTED! Catholic means universal and there is nothing more universal than Nature.
The producer of the movie James Cameron is certainly trying to send a green message in this movie. Without giving away more of the movie, this movie should be a” must see” on your list.
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