Okay, I just got back from seeing one of the most eye opening movies I've ever seen: Avatar. It was a beautiful experience and I've heard so much about how gorgeous the scenery and images in the film, I wasn't disappointed. The world of Pandora was filled with imagination and wonder. The imagination the creators of this world have such open minds and creative instinct that it really makes you think twice about the people who think with the right side of their brain. But I actually found more beauty in the story of the movie. How man's goal to prosper has the effect of hurting the world around us.
As I sat there watching the military hurt this magnificent world, I wondered so much about where I am today. How many animals were hurt to give me this home where I type these words? How many homes were destroyed? How many lives were taken? Some people believe that creatures we do not understand are savages, such as the Na'vi. But who are the real savages? The ones who are strange and unnatural, or the ones who judge them and destroy so that they can develop? I thought, "Am, I savage?", "Are my friends savages?", "Is my family savages?" because we are now living upon land which was not originally ours? And, there's no real answer to that question. What truelly makes a person a savage is the actions they make. The choice is ours when it comes to being a good person.
Unfortunately, for some of us, it takes the sight of pain and despair in another's eyes to see the negative decisions we have made. That's why it's to important that there are people like the character Jake Sulley in the world we live in today. People who have the purity in their hearts to discover how others will be effected by their decisions. He didn't need to see the torture of the Na'vi people to know the difference between right and wrong.
All he needed to see was the beauty of Pandora and the beauty of the Navi's hearts. And with his purity came his passion to care for the Na'vi. That's what people who have this purity in their hearts do. They make sure that the ones they care for are not hurt in any way, shape, or form. That they do all that's in their power to make sure that the ones they care for are happy and safe. And that's why it hurts even more when you fail.
But, when you fail, you need to keep going, because when you quit, that's when you truly have failed. Persistance, love, and the good in people's hearts is what makes this world of ours spin. Life brings us many disasters, such as the one in Avatar, (not saying what it is, in case you haven't seen the movie yet) and the best thing we can do is hope there are those out there to help us through them. The way I see disasters is that there are 3 people involved. Take a car accident for example, there's the person who watches the crash, the one who causes the crash, and the one that helps whoever was in the crash. I'm not even sure myself which of these 3 I am.
I only know who I can try my best to become and hope that it follows through in my life until my last breath. This movie has opened my eyes more to the way life works and the cycle we all must go through. We must not forget that the homes we live in today were once homes to other creatures which are now gone. And we must remember to respect the world around us. Mother nature has given us so many blessings and it's our duty to her to care for these gifts. The gift of life, joy, and life. We must remember that all life is precious. Whether it is the enormous elephant, walking through the savana, or the miniscule housefly, buzzing through the air. We must take into consideration that all life has meaning, and that no race or species is more important than the next.
We are all equal in the eyes of life and we must treat all so. The Earth is just one more of the creatures we must provide love to. I've heard people talk about how they wish Earth was like Pandora, but did they ever actually consider that it WAS? Before mankind came, Earth really was sorta like Pandora. Greenery everywhere and surrounded by lustrious life. That was before shopping malls and buildings came along. I'm not saying go on a mad protest against factories and it demolish anything that harms the Earth, but try to remember where you are standing . You are standing on a living, breathing creature, and we need to care and nuture it. If not, our home will die, and we will go down with it. We should take a lesson from the Na'vi to find the beauties of the world and to look past our industrialized lifestyle to the divine space we inhabit. The natural wonders are much more ideal than any movie you could see. The blossoming of a flower, a butterfly hatching from it's caccoon, the love a mother wolf shows her pups. That is what true beauty is. I give Avatar a high 5/5
