Examples Of Disability In Avatar

Disability in Cinema – How has it been portrayed in Avatar?
Movies have proven themselves to be a major source of entertainment and business lately, and everybody watches them. What movies portray or reflect, some may just look at it and forget about it the very next moment, but there are some who watch with a completely different perspective and have their ways of thinking influenced by what they see in these movies. Since my paper is about disabilities seen in movies, I’m going to take the example of the movie Avatar here which is probably the best example out there when it comes to showing how disabilities have been portrayed to the major audience. In the movie, you find Jake Sully, a simple man who used to be a part of the army and ended …show more content…
For instance, very unfortunately, in real life the victims of disabilities or deformities are not really welcome, and it is a matter of fact that things were worse for such people in the past, with them being referred to or thought of as a ‘disgrace’ in a number of cases. The situation is not as bad anymore however, as people have begun to civilize as time continues to pass. But it is still hard to say that the victims of disabilities are considered as normal as any other healthy human. Then again, this is not the case with every single person, as there are many who try to equalize disabled humans and normal humans as much as possible, but such people are in the minority in today’s date as most would rather prefer not to even look towards a disabled one. When it comes to what the movie ‘Avatar’ has shown us, being disabled was barely something anyone batted an eye for. It seemed pretty normal to everyone, and disabled people were treated as equally as any other normal person and were provided help whenever required. Jake Sully couldn’t walk, but he had his wheelchair with him all the time and his teammates as well, who would be around if he ever needed any help. At the end of the movie, Jake falls in love with an alien named ‘Neytiri’ in his alien form, and after the war ends, Colonel Quaritch fights Jake to seek his revenge, and when he begins to lose the fight, he directly heads to the machine in which Jake’s original body lied. Fortunately, there are other machines nearby and Quaritch crushes them with his operable robot, but it gets too late before he figures out the box in which Jake’s real body slept. Neytiri was able to kill Quaritch, but enough damage was caused and Jake’s real body falls out of the machine, making his alien form go unconscious. Jake needs oxygen as the interior of the place he was in was now