Thursday January 21, 2010
Mawkish, maybe. But Avatar is a profound, insightful, important film
George Monbiot
The Guardian
Cameron's blockbuster offers a chilling metaphor for European butchery of the Americas. No wonder the US right hates it
Avatar, James Cameron's blockbusting 3D film, is both profoundly silly and profound. It's profound because, like most films about aliens, it is a metaphor for contact between different human cultures. But in this case the metaphor is conscious and precise: this is the story of European engagement with the native peoples of the Americas. It's profoundly silly because engineering a happy ending demands a plot so stupid and predictable that it rips the heart out of the film.
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