Solaris, G. Roni Sr---->Avatar

Rating: 6/10 (11 June 2010)

Solaris-->Avatar
I have to confess, I watched this movie as a silent film. And I boast that I understand it all, thanks to some subtitles in English. Its humor showed even through one visual channel, no speech was available to me. War, war, again war, albeit a funny one. But is it? It may be compared to the colonization of America or Africa. Another flashback in time is, of course, "Eve" giving a fruit to a created "Adam"— a rather cheap and predictable shot. More cheap shots—a Jupiter-like planet and two moons hanging in the sky. And school's recommended reading—the book by G. Roni Sr. "Struggle for Fire"— brings flames into the picture—this time as a torch soaked in... a puddle of oil. Where on earth, no, on avatar, did our superman strike it so quick? Such a torch could blind not an attacking animal but our valiant hero... Avatar's rhinos are spectacular. The nose bridges of the natives made distinct but the Jewish nose is visible here again. There is a certain parallel with a famous short novel " Solaris" by Stanislaw Lem and the movie "Solaris" by Andrei Tarkovsky. But it was done almost forty years ago, nothing is new under the moons, except the seemingly weightless branches of giant trees, of the Mother Tree of Avatar. It smacks of China or its emulator Japan.
squall-upturned tree
high in its roots
cobblestones