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- The 2009 American science fiction film Avatar has provoked vigorous discussion of a wide variety of cultural, social, political, and religious themes identified by critics and commentators, and the film's writer and director James Cameron has responded that he hoped to create an emotional reaction and to provoke public conversation about these topics. The broad range of Avatar's intentional or perceived themes has prompted some reviewers to call it "an all-purpose allegory" and "the season's ideological Rorschach blot". One reporter even suggested that the politically charged punditry has been "misplaced": reviewers should have seized on the opportunity to take "a break from their usual fodder of public policy and foreign relations" rather than making an ideological battlefield of this "popcorn epic". Discussion has centered on such themes as the conflict between modern human and nature, and the film's treatment of imperialism, racism, militarism and patriotism, corporate greed, property rights, spirituality and religion. Commentators have debated whether the film's treatment of the human aggression against the native Na'vi is a message of support for indigenous peoples today, or is, instead, a tired retelling of the racist myth of the noble savage. Right-wing critics accused Cameron of pushing an anti-American message in the film's depiction of a private military contractor that used ex-Marines to attack the natives, while Cameron and others argued that it is pro-American to question the propriety of the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The visual similarity between the destruction of the World Trade Center and the felling of Home Tree in the film caused some filmgoers to further identify with the Na'vi and to identify the human military contractors as terrorists. Critics asked whether this comparison was intended to encourage audiences to empathize with the position of Muslims under military occupation today. Much discussion has concerned the film's treatment of environmental protection and the parallels to, for example, the destruction of rainforests, mountaintop removal for mining and evictions from homes for development. The title of the film and various visual and story elements provoked discussion of the film's use of Hindu iconography, which Cameron confirmed had inspired him. Christians, including the Vatican, worried that the film promotes pantheism over Christian beliefs, while others instead thought that it sympathetically explores biblical concepts. Other critics either praised the film's spiritual elements or found them hackneyed. (en)
- Американский научно-фантастический фильм «Аватар» 2009 года получил широкий успех, стал самым кассовым в истории кинематографа и является им до сих пор. Картина вызвала бурные дискуссии на темы социальных, политических, религиозных проблем, определённых критиками и комментаторами. В дискуссиях были затронуты такие проблемы, как конфликт между современным человеком и природой, империализма, расизма, милитаризма и патриотизма, корпоративной жадности, духовности и религии. Комментаторы сообщили, что фильм является лекарством человеческой агрессии к коренным народам. Некоторые критики обвинили Кэмерона в антиамериканском послании в фильме, в то время как сам Кэмерон утверждал, что фильм является проамериканским в вопросе нынешней войны в Ираке и Афганистане. Визуальная схожесть разрушения башен Всемирного торгового центра и рубки Древа Дома в фильме спровоцировала кинолюбителей определить человеческую армию в «Аватаре», как террористов. Критики задались вопросом, действительно ли эта схожесть направлена на то, чтобы стимулировать зрителей к сопереживанию положении мусульман в условиях военной оккупации сегодня. Большинство дискуссий касались темы обращений в фильме, таких как защита окружающей среды: например, уничтожение тропических лесов и гор для добывания ценных камней и выселение из домов для застройки. Христиане, включая Святой Престол, опасались, что фильм пропагандирует пантеизм над христианской верой, а другие уверяли, что фильм сокровенно исследует библейские познания. Некоторые критики либо хвалили духовные элементы фильма, либо нашли в них банальность. (ru)
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- Hindu god Rama holding a bow and arrows (en)
- Hindu god Krishna with flute in hand dancing on a lotus flower (en)
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- Critics compared the Na'vi with Hindu gods such as Krishna and Rama, traditionally depicted with blue skin and tilak marks on their foreheads. (en)
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- "Avatar is a science fiction retelling of the history of North and South America in the early colonial period. Avatar very pointedly made reference to the colonial period in the Americas, with all its conflict and bloodshed between the military aggressors from Europe and the indigenous peoples. Europe equals Earth. The native Americans are the Na’vi. It’s not meant to be subtle." (en)
- Avatar comes from a childhood sense of wonder about nature... You fly in your dreams as a child, but you tend not to fly in your dreams as an adult. In the Avatar state, [Jake] is getting to return to that childlike dream state of doing amazing things. (en)
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- James Cameron (en)
- —James Cameron on Avatar (en)
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- The 2009 American science fiction film Avatar has provoked vigorous discussion of a wide variety of cultural, social, political, and religious themes identified by critics and commentators, and the film's writer and director James Cameron has responded that he hoped to create an emotional reaction and to provoke public conversation about these topics. The broad range of Avatar's intentional or perceived themes has prompted some reviewers to call it "an all-purpose allegory" and "the season's ideological Rorschach blot". One reporter even suggested that the politically charged punditry has been "misplaced": reviewers should have seized on the opportunity to take "a break from their usual fodder of public policy and foreign relations" rather than making an ideological battlefield of this "po (en)
- Американский научно-фантастический фильм «Аватар» 2009 года получил широкий успех, стал самым кассовым в истории кинематографа и является им до сих пор. Картина вызвала бурные дискуссии на темы социальных, политических, религиозных проблем, определённых критиками и комментаторами. (ru)
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