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Unfortunately Sky's right. Even within the parameters of Avatar's choices, Cameron felt he had to make it even more unreal so people's sympathies would be properly directed. It's not enough that their resources were being stolen -- they shouldn't be stolen, says Weaver's character, because of the neural network she had discovered. And what if the aliens had been more like all oppressed and exploited peoples, e.g. fucked up in countless ways by the social maladies we suffer from, rather than all so nice and wise? What if it hadn't even been about stealing their resources but about occupation with no clear logic (even if we know the underlying logic)? But all that's waiting for a more political writer... On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Sky Keyes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Personally I'm tired of hearing people say Avatar or District 9 was all > that... all I keep thinking is like 'Why we got to be aliens for this shit > to be deep? Why we got to be aliens for people to feel compassion for what > was done to us?' Apparently reality is too real so we have to make it into > some alien gimmick and at the end of the day are people really drawing the > real lessons from the story? All I hear people saying is "oh, Avatar had > great graphics, it was so awesome at the iMax..." > > -Sky ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
