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treatment of the human aggression against the native Na’vi is a message of support for indigenous peoples today.” “Themes”. Other argues that the film promotes “anti-American” message with the ex-marines that attack the inhabitants. While, others states it is pro-American to question the natives as in Iraq and Afghanistan. Further analysis suggests the destruction of the home tree was similar to the destruction of world trade center that depicts both the military and the convicted as terrorists. Cameron film may show his ability to highlight many sociological themes that impact the human race. Evidence point that whether critics feel his intention was to show the conflict within the religious wars or the environment. James Cameron’s film creates …show more content…
It has a lot of teaching and warnings to the people of the world. It mostly covers about culture, in the sense of how united the Na’vi people were, and how they were living in oneness, and connecting themselves to their surroundings; both plants and animals. They have fibers which each living things is born with, both plants and animals. This allows the living things to connect to each other emotionally and physically. “Once connected, they can feel each other 's emotions and thoughts. They are, in essence, operating as one single being with expanded sensory awareness” (“Adams”). The Na’vi people had their values and their norms as any other race have. It also discusses how the minority and powerless people (the Na’vi) suffered in the hands of powerful military humans. These all relate to the discussion we had in class about how the minority people are suffering in the hands of the majority. The cases of discrimination and I think it also relates to the topic of sexuality in the sense that the movie has the central theme of love between two people (Neytiri and Jake) even though it is not mainly focusing on these two people but it shows the expression of love feelings. Many people have discussed about the Avatar movie, both the bad and the good part. Many Christians has also expressed their views on this movie. But I think what’s most important is that, the movie Avatar show cases that happens in our everyday life with many lessons to

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