This Avatar Too Is Epical.

One liner : one hell of a movie.

In the second half of the movie Jack, the hero, once comments “I am gonna take this to a different level”. These words are equally apt for the director James Cameroon too. The movie truly is epical in proportions. Apparently, it has cost some $ 237 million. I, for one, am pretty sure that it’s gonna easily recover the movie. Out here in Ahmedabad, it's a huge hit and getting tickets with out sufficient pre-planning is difficult.

Coming to the movie, the basic plot is pretty simple. It’s on the lines of many sci-fi movies. It’s about people on earth waging a war against some ‘aliens’, aborigines of a certain moon like satellite called Pandora. In the end, the 'human' beings win. The key word here is ‘human'. Two things about the movie – one, the dream like states of the film’s characters and two, the hero being the chosen ‘one’ to save life on Pandora – reminded me of Matrix. But the similarity ends there.

The visuals and detailed graphics are truly of a different world. Just class apart. They are very engrossing. That the movie is available in 3D format too only added to its appeal. The music is good, though at times it reminded me of background sound of some tribal based computer games. Given the proportion and depth of graphics work, the cinematography is pretty good. However, given that it’s a 3D picture there could have been, probably, a few more breath taking shots.

Apart from the visual experience, I also loved the movie for the statements it made. It beautifully captures the kind of the in-spired lives lead. It depicts their animistic beliefs very well. For example, to ride a horse-like animal, the natives need to 'connect' with the animal. After that you communicate the directions to it by direct thought transmission. Similarly, chosing one’s vehicle to fly in the skies of Pandora is also cool cool. It’s just not that yu chose the creature, the creature too needs to chose yu. And the interesting thing is that yu can only try once. There are many other such instances by which Cameroon subtly teaches us how to respect and acknowledge the importance of other living beings around us. It’s sort of a slap on the face of all who believe that as human beings, it is their birth right to exploit everything on planet earth. With so many discussions about environment and climate happening around, these lessons couldn’t have been timed better :)

Apart from the hero Jack, another interesting character is that of Colonel Miles Quaritch (played by Stephen Lang). He epitomizes the bull dozing attitude of imperialist forcesbig boys like US. He is utterly ruthless about life on Pandora, be it that of the hometree, central to the habitation of native clan or the lives of natives themselves. Like any other real world war mongering official, Colonel Miles loftly promises to bring Pandora under control by with “least amount of loss to lives” of the natives.

Also, the robot like mechanical structures that the military uses to attack natives is a very good metaphor for rule-bound soliders who are completely insensitive to local cultures in real life scenarios.

In short, the movie has a thought provoking theme and imaginative visuals making for a great movie watching experience.