By Liam M.
Seeing “Avatar” is similar to having a spiritual awakening. It thoroughly and completely blows your mind with its breathtaking visuals and epic plot. The viewer gets immersed in the beauty of the conceptual planet of Pandora, home of the Navi people, where the majority of the movie takes place. Even when not in 3-d, the fantasy world comes to life on the screen and draws you in, making you feel the Navis’ strong spiritual attachment to their home. Their respect and adoration for their planet is similar to the Native Americans, as their core value is to live in sync with the spiritual energy that flows through all of nature. Opposition comes from the humans who, until coming to understand the people through their avatars, want simply the precious minerals that lie beneath the ground of the Navis’ most sacred places. Although the plot is relatively predictable, the viewer gets so emotionally captured by the story that he stays enthralled the entire time.
The movie ends with an epic battle between the money hungry human military and all the Navi tribes and animals in an attempt to save the land that they so adore. I walked out of the theater shocked that I had been there for two and a half hours, and sorry that the movie did not continue for another six. “Avatar” is a visual masterpiece and can make people of every age reassess their core values and understand the beauty of life when in unity with nature and each other.
