A Cautionary Tale

Rating: 9/10 (25 December 2009)

People forget that the nature images used in Avatar come from our own beautiful planet. Sad thing is, most viewers will never get to the Amazon, or see the phosphor-luminescence of the Indian Ocean or the endless wilderness of Irian Jaya--but it's all there, and we need to care for it!! Earth, I SEE YOU (to paraphrase the movie)... If Cameron can raise people's awareness of the sanctity and interconnectedness of the world around us so that we care for it better, then I'm all for it. Regardless of one's religious beliefs, there IS a web of energy that flows through all things, and we are in the process of dismantling that, and subsequently destroying ourselves. So what he has done is a brave thing--cloak a cautionary tale inside an epic adventure--so that viewers of all ages will hopefully leave the theater and see what's around them, large and small, with new eyes. Pandora is here, right here.