In Greek mythology, Prometheus stole fire from the sky and gave it to humans, angering the main god. Zeus not only chained Prometheus on the cliffs of the Caucasus Mountains to be eaten by eagles, but also created a beautiful woman, Pandora, with the gods, and let her marry Prometheus with a magic box full of disasters. Brother, open the magic box on the wedding night: plague, jealousy, sin, greed and other inferiority flood the world... Pandora has become the main culprit in spreading the disaster. In this film directed by Cameron, the human class deliberately named the planet that he wanted to attack and possess as "Pandora", which undoubtedly gave the aggression the name of "justice". Pandora planet = disaster star, since it is a disaster star, it is famous for being a teacher.
The reason why Jack was willing to replace his dead younger brother to be an "Avatar Warrior" and use his real mind to manipulate the "surrogate" as a spy to go on an adventure on the planet Pandora was for two selfish purposes: one is the selfishness of human beings ( plundering resources from alien planets), and the second is individual selfishness (obtaining the ability to walk). However, human beings have to satisfy their own inflated desires, but also falsely put on the cloak of legality, and even pretend to be the name of God. "Avatar" in Sanskrit means "the reincarnation of God in the mortal world".
However, when Jack came to the planet of Pandora, he found that this terrifying place, which was rendered by humans as a place where poisonous gas was steaming and demons gathered, was actually a fantastic garden with towering giant trees, suspended mountains, dotted lakes, colorful plants and incomparably beautiful. Although the creatures there are ferocious, powerful, and terrifying, their attacks on Jack are only disturbed by the tranquility, not so much an attack as a self-defense, they are used to the cover of the mimosa and the silence of the night. The indigenous tribes living in the rainforest, the Na'vi, although tiger nose, leopard eyes, blue skin, tall stature, and running like beasts, they are kind and friendly, united and love each other, keep their promises, be honest and brave, and have the ability to communicate with nature. The nature of the spirit is sheltered by the goddess Eve. Within two days, Jack was deeply moved by the sincere friendliness of the tribe, fell in love with the daughter of the leader who had saved his life and taught him language and survival skills, and felt safe and warm to be a member of the tribe.
I think that after a series of thrilling jungle adventures, I and all the audience in the movie theater were subtly "brainwashed" like Jack. We gradually eliminated the violent "bestiality" in ourselves and restored the civilization that was already in consumption. The warm "humanity" that is constantly being lost in the process.
One of the most moving scenes in the film is that Jack's body is wrapped in the magical tree seeds in the black jungle. Those seeds are like light and floating poplar catkins, like transparent floating in the sea. The jellyfish, with its inner light, conveys a message of harmony. The daughter of the tribal leader did not shoot the uninvited guest because she saw a spiritual tree seed fall on the arrow that was about to shoot. Instead, she fought the wolves and saved his life; she saw countless spiritual tree seeds fall. When it came to the stranger, she believed him and decided to bring him back to the tribe. Not only did she teach her to ride a horse, drive a bird, bend a bow and shoot arrows, but also took him to see the tribe's sacred tree, and kissed him under the sacred tree.
Jack fell in love with the Na'vi and betrayed the Na'vi. According to the accurate information he provided, human fighter planes and spaceships came to this harmonious land, carried out brutal killings, blew up the giant tree where the Na'vi lived, and turned the lush green forest into a sea of fire and scorched earth. Facing the cruelty of human beings, Jack resolutely betrayed his peers. Driven by kindness and justice, he chose the latter between "belonging to the real body" and "belonging to the incarnation". He led with the courage and wisdom of human struggle. The Na'vi, who have never experienced war, fought a decisive battle with humans! Between the colorful birds and the metal spaceships, we all gave the birds the expectation of victory, we all gave the support of justice to the weak, and we all betrayed human beings without hesitation like Jack.
This kind of betrayal is also a just judgment, which judges the ever-expanding domineering, cruelty, lies and greed of human beings (the domineering, ignoring the cruelty of living beings, pretending to be holy lies, and possessing all greed). With the help of Jack's eyes, we saw the evil possessed that flew out of Pandora's Box, and realized that the real Pandora planet is not the one we named, but the earth that is going to destruction in our hands! Humans claim to be descendants of fire thieves - descendants of Prometheus, but what are we doing with stolen fire? Prometheus was not afraid of being punished by the Lord God and stole the fire from the sky to the world, in order to give human beings light and warmth, and to let human beings live happily. And what about humans? But it turns fire into a weapon that destroys nature and burns life. Are human beings who betrayed Prometheus' original intention still worthy of calling themselves a descendant of Prometheus?
To say that "Avatar" expresses two themes of "protecting the environment" and "opposing hegemony", I don't think it is "exalting" at all. I suddenly understood why I didn't like watching sci-fi movies like "Epcot" or "Star Wars" before. The reason was that I resisted human beings' increasingly violent tendencies, possessive desires, and uncontrolled conquering ambitions. In those films, humans always play the role of arrogant, arrogant conquerors. And in "Avatar", human beings have conquered the self for the first time. At the end of the film, under the spiritual tree, Jack's primordial spirit flew from the real body into the incarnation under the prayers of the Na'vi. When he suddenly opened his eyes, my heart screamed with joy, and countless spiritual tree seeds gathered together, shining brightly.
I was thrilled to discover that a well-known Greek myth had gone awry in its retelling for generations. According to legend, the "hope" that Athena, the goddess of wisdom, secretly put into the bottom of the magic box in order to save mankind, had not had time to fly out, and Pandora had buttoned the box. This is not the case, "hope" flew out, and always floated around us, but we didn't see it with the naked eye. Maybe we saw it, but turned a blind eye to it by believing the misinformation.
Tonight, walking out of the movie theater and walking down the darkened streets, I saw "Hope" and heard Michael Jackson sing "Save the World" on Na'vi Planet. I believe that many people have seen the seeds of the spiritual tree dancing in the air and glowing like me, and I believe that many people feel like me that more and more seeds are falling on themselves.
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