Could we be at a moment – deeper into ecological crisis than we were when the first Avatar was released – where we can learn similar things? Even, perhaps, from the whales and dolphins whose cultures (yes, they really do have cultures too) are in some ways more impressive than our own? I’m thinking of the way they stick together no matter what, forming super-organism communities beyond our fantasies of individuality.Ĭould The Way of Water provide a new opportunity for this kind of message to hit home? Avatar’s release coincided with the Copenhagen Cop summit, which was widely recognised as a failure. ![]() What a magical thing for a blockbuster movie to dwell on, to show us.īoth Avatar films have at their centre processes of “education”, in particular for our avatars in the films to really learn from indigenous inhabitants. And that they are wiser and much more emotional beings than any of us bipeds. ![]() While the humans and the Na’vi are at war in the film, we learn that these Pandoran “whales” have taken a vow of non-violence.
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