Has anyone out there heard of this? Avatar Syndrome, what is it? I heard about this from a friend today. He said that Avatar is causing depression. How can that be? It is winning all kinds of awards, people seem to love it, how is it causing depression? Well, he explained, the world that Avatar creates is so amazing and graphically pleasing that people leave the theater and see the concrete jungle around them, in turn, causing them to realize how crappy and void of color their own lives are.
That sounds so interesting to me, a movie can have that strong of a hold on peoples senses that it can emotionally scare them....at least for a little bit. Please, anyone out there that has seen Avatar, has this happened to you? Did Avatar make you feel good and full of life at the end or did it leave you dissatisfied with your own life?
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First off, why in the heck haven't you seen Avatar? It's like missing out on Star Wars or some other movie that changes how movies are made. Go see it in 3D.
I can see people being depressed, but these same people are depressed that Japanese animation isn't real. The world was cool, but not any better than being in the wild in the real world. I think most of those people just need to go camping so they realize that being in nature is hard, even the one on an alien planet.
I've seen it. I dont' agree with the people that say they get depressed. I just though it was interestesting that it was enough of a phenomonon that it beacame a syndrome.
Avatar....saw it. What can I say? Cowboys and Indians stuff. The wicked mean industrial earthlings(played by American soldiers of course)go and rape the natives of another planet for their raw material. If you are a conservative, you should NOT like this movie. They say James Camron made it. That's a lie. It was either Russel Means or Osama bin Laden. It didn't depress me at all, but I did yawn a few times.
I don't really agree that the movie is anti-conservative. You could say the natives are libertarian just as much as you could say they were progressive. I saw the corporation as people with power trying to push around the little guy. That could be interpreted any number of ways: Big Business pushing around the common people, White's pushing around Native Americans. Big Government pushing around the common people, etc.
The only political comment I heard in the movie was that people on earth destroyed everything green. So you could call the movie pro-green.
Mike, everyone is entitled to an opinion, but to be honest, I'm not sure how one can avoid NOT seeing the political message in this film. This wasn't as much about "big government pushing around the common people" as it was about an invading foreign Army attempting to extinguish an indigenous people. It's no accident that Pandora's humanoids resemble the native American in their connection with nature and their fight against the soldier sent by the "Great White Father". I mean, this is "Dances With Wolves" Star Wars style! As a former soldier myself and a veteran of the Gulf War, I get sort of fed up with the portrayal of the American fighting man as some sort of evil figure. And if the soldiers in Avatar were something other than American, you could have fooled me. Hollywood has an agenda, it doesn't take a degree in rocket science to figure that out. You did bring up a great point though, Mike; the GREEN agenda is also well embedded in this flick.
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