The scene I am choosing to analyze is the beginning scene that I believe we haven’t analyzed yet and it is when he (the main character is seeing the new creatures for the first time and realizing that he would be able to have legs if he took the risk to see what their world was like. This scene tried to make us connect with Jake, make us feel and connect about everything that he has missed by being in a wheelchair. This scene makes us wonder about how he would experience having legs if this transformation worked. This also makes us wonder if he will actually go through the transformation and see if he will even know how to handle himself. All the different scenes angles that this section of the film takes I feel like is their way of showing us all the different angles Jake would take on life if he could walk in this new world and have his legs back. The Avatar in the case floating there in the tank also makes us wonder what this whole world will be like, what the life style they will live will be like, and makes us wonder just in general about this creature itself. This movie makes us fantasize about being one of these creatures, it makes us want to be one of them, and it makes us want to join the fantasy world. It wants us to connect and draw us into loving them and siding with them. This love for the Avatar people was what caused many people to commit suicide hoping that they will then enter into this world, Avatar Depression. The intertextuality of this movie is making everyone want to join this world, sort of like a cult. Some thing many people really want to join but no one can really get there. The structure of feeling in this moving I think is the strongest part of this movie. The strong music at this scene also is what conveys people’s feelings to want to join this world. It is as though our world here is never going to be as beautiful and great as the blue people’s world, yet their world gets destroyed and ruined in the end. Which there has some politics to the movie being that you can take this as the going green trend, save the world trend that people can relate to this movie, and this scene of admiring these people makes the public want to go and save their world too. I am sorry for any confusing parts of this post, due to the fact that I am not one who enjoys this movie. J
Sunday, November 13, 2011
The Blue Person in the Tank. What is that?
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I don't really understand Post Avatar depression because if you kill your self why would you go to a land of blue people and be able to fly pterodactyls? This is not the Matrix you will not wake up in real real life.
ReplyDeleteI think that this is also an interesting part because he has lost his legs and the thought of him regaining his ability to use his legs plays with our emotions and makes us hopeful and excited that he gets to have this experience.
I really like this scene because it really dives into the dilemma that Jake goes through before deciding to become an avatar. The viewers are really submerged into the feelings that Jake is having and we all are wondering the same thing, what would it be like if we were avatars? With that being said, I really liked how this post correlated the fantasy of becoming an avatar to the Avatar depression. To me, avatar depression is a little bit ridiculous but thats because i'm not the type of person to become obsessed with movies or books.
ReplyDeleteI think that this was a really good scene to analyze because it is such a critical part of the movie. You were really spot on about how this is the first exposure the viewer has of this new, unknown world and that makes us curious about what it will be like, are they good creatures/bad creatures, etc. I also do not really love this movie like some other people do but I can understand how people get caught up in this melodrama fantasy world and kind of lose themselves or a sense of reality by getting caught up in the plot.
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