The Most Emotionally Impactful Film Ever?

Rating: 10/10 (5 January 2010)

There are movies that are great; there are movies that are amazing; then there are movies that, plainly put, give you a different outlook on life. Avatar is this type of movie.
I've never been so personally affected after watching a film. The visuals were obviously nothing like I have ever seen before. About an hour into the movie I forgot I was in a movie theater. I felt like I was a stranger in the far away planet as Jake did.
The core message is impeccable; Be at one with every living thing on earth and it will take care of you. The way James Cameron can tell a story is second to no one. He makes up a false story in his head knowing that the audience will want it to be real so badly. Neytiri's character is flawless. By the end of the movie, every man in the audience falls head over heels in love with her. Her tough exterior and her soft interior make her so uncontrollably desirable to most men. I sat there thinking, "wow, I wish this woman was real". Much to my dismay, she isn't. The film also does a great job in restoring ones faith after seeing how much the Na'vi people are in tune with their god. But that's a whole other day's worth of writing.
Its been a week and a half now since I watched the film and since then everything on earth seems a little bit duller, a little bit more disheartening. Its like everything around me seems like such a disappointment because Pandora and its native people are so much more desirable. I am a 24 year old male grad student in film history, so I have seen and analyzed 100's of films. This film has affected me in such a positive way, it has taken me out of my "college athlete" tough exterior to expose my true, caring self.
I believe in God, and I also believe when we die we move onto something better. And I'm not getting all emotional and stoic cause the movie personally affected me. I can FEEL that there is something better after this chaos stricken world. When I die I hope God sends me to live eternity in Pandora, it's the closest thing to heaven these eyes have seen.