Real Fairytale

Rating: 7/10 (29 April 2010)

My review for this film will be pretty cautious because James Cameron as a very intelligent movie maker has implied a complex movie structure in here, much more than we explicitly see. I believe that touchy social geneses of today world is so obvious for every spectator who gets in this movie not only on action and technological bases but on emotional as well. Very carefully operated, so many strong messages behind the screen. Otherwise, we would probably have Disney Star War movie or SF Dancing with Wolves. Cameron started to warn the world we are calling civilized with his Terminator robots decades ago but we have never seen him drawing so clear line. Apparently, Na'vis exist ever since the time of the civilized world, they have to exist as opposite of being civilized. Their existence underlined in the start as savage and cruel is justifying the genocide and destruction done on them by our cute civilized world. First distinctive Na'vis were probably American Indians who clashed with greedy civilized colonists that did not want their precious materials only but their land as well. Indians won first battles just like Na'vis, but than ships of the civilized world came back and exterminated them, taking everything from them thereafter (here, do not miss Avatar 2). Similar things have happened over the centuries with Asian Indian, Chinese and African Na'vis for different precious materials, happens today with Iraqi people because of oil, Afghanistan because of drug profit control ... And civilized greediness never ends. Jack Sully the lonely hand of conscience is pretty lonely indeed. We can see that he and his few friends are truly dependent of the greedy empire. Does it ring your bell? Journalists, "peacemakers" and "world judges", everything bought or blackmailed in most sophisticated ways ... there are tortures and cleansings of whole nations while we are sitting in our cozy little armchairs and giving no sht about that because it is far enough from us, done in the name of us by our civilized army representatives ... and it certainly brings profit and peace to us, we think. Can at least minority of us act against evil only in our dreams, just like Jack? Are we capable of leaving our cozy armchairs for the sake of good? Mr Cameron opens nice questions. As for the SF background of the film most of the scenes look animated, Disney style. The Na'vi humanoid looks like a cartoon character but still fits in the story somehow, could be better for the money spent. Frankly, probably the greatest thing about this movie was marketing campaign. Wow! Compares to that Terminator was zippo. I knew that no movie can satisfied expectations of that hysterical movie marketing but I got more than I expected. All in all, should be seen by both humanoids and Na'vis.