Thursday, November 18, 2010

Avatar Imperialism

    Avatar is linked to Imperialism because it has the strong team of people trying to dominate a planet called Pandora. There is racism on the movie also because they are against these living aliens from that planet they think if they are not human they should die, that's horrible. Also it has a lot of leadership involved. The most important point is that it is not a coincidence, for example, that no real critique of presently obtaining American militarism is possible in a movie with no real American military presence. Critics have claimed that the story of a white US Marine who saves an alien race perpetuates the "white Messiah fable" and suggests that non-whites are primitives incapable of helping themselves. Avatar is a racial fantasy. It rests on the stereotype that white people are rationalist and technocratic while colonial victims are spiritual and athletic. ikening the film to Pocahontas, where the Indian woman leads the white man into the wilderness, and he learns the way of the people and becomes the savior, It's really upsetting in many ways. It would be nice if we could save ourselves.

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