The film ‘Avatar’ was controversial in nature and questioned some sensitive and important issues. By doing this, James Cameron sends a warning to his western audience. The film demonstrates that terror only leads to more terror. It presents to the audience how beliefs of righteousness cause conflict between parties, warning the audience not to make the same mistakes. Furthermore, James Cameron’s production warns his audience about ignorance, showing the importance of listening and understanding. Finally, his film highlights the importance of caring for the environment.
The movie Avatar warns the audience that terror only leads to more terror, through it’s war scenes, harsh characters and confronting depictions of terror. This terror unfolds …show more content…
Ignorance causes a lack of understanding between parties in Avatar, which escalates quickly into potentially unwarranted violence. As a result of the humans superiority complex, they become ignorant to what the Navi value, and are, as a result, unjust in the way they treat them. Neytiri comments to Jake that the ‘sky people cannot learn because they cannot see’. ‘See’ing becomes a metaphor in the film for seeing another as what they are, and understanding that. The Navi value seeing one another in their culture, however the Westerners don’t seem to. Perhaps it’s not just the Sky people ‘seeing’ the Navi but also the Na’vi not seeing the sky people. The film doesn’t include a peaceful discussion between parties, and this causes ignorance as to what the other values. Neytiri see’s Jake’s ignorance, directly stating Jake is “ignorant like a child”. Only when Jake “[tries] to understand [their] deep connection]” to the land does he really choose whose morals he sides with - until then, he is ignorant to what they value, as seen when he earlier “[thanks] [Neytiri] for killing [the wild dogs]”. When races are ignorant to other cultures values, unneeded conflict emerges. James Cameron warns his Western audience not to become ignorant as to what other cultures
The movie Avatar warns the audience that terror only leads to more terror, through it’s war scenes, harsh characters and confronting depictions of terror. This terror unfolds …show more content…
Ignorance causes a lack of understanding between parties in Avatar, which escalates quickly into potentially unwarranted violence. As a result of the humans superiority complex, they become ignorant to what the Navi value, and are, as a result, unjust in the way they treat them. Neytiri comments to Jake that the ‘sky people cannot learn because they cannot see’. ‘See’ing becomes a metaphor in the film for seeing another as what they are, and understanding that. The Navi value seeing one another in their culture, however the Westerners don’t seem to. Perhaps it’s not just the Sky people ‘seeing’ the Navi but also the Na’vi not seeing the sky people. The film doesn’t include a peaceful discussion between parties, and this causes ignorance as to what the other values. Neytiri see’s Jake’s ignorance, directly stating Jake is “ignorant like a child”. Only when Jake “[tries] to understand [their] deep connection]” to the land does he really choose whose morals he sides with - until then, he is ignorant to what they value, as seen when he earlier “[thanks] [Neytiri] for killing [the wild dogs]”. When races are ignorant to other cultures values, unneeded conflict emerges. James Cameron warns his Western audience not to become ignorant as to what other cultures