The other night I watched a DVD of the film Avatar. Hadn’t seen it before. I hesitate to admit it, but I couldn’t sit through the entire flick. It bored and bothered me. Sure, visually it was stunning. But the storyline and characters — cardboard. Perhaps I wasn’t in the mood for a one-dimensional movie.
As a slight tangent let me just say that I hope that future human culture displays both technological and intellectual advancement . . . perhaps even to the point of recognizing that individuals are rarely uni-dimensional — psychologically speaking — and while the webs of nature are quite complex and even esteem-worthy, the Earth is not some magical, holistic, font of pure good.
Back to the visuals. When watching the first third of the movie I suspected that someone (writer/director James Cameron?) had obviously spent some time diving/snorkeling. Or had seen a bunch of old Cousteau videos. Or had fallen down and pressed his/her nose into the duff and gained a closer good look at the startling and awesome complexity of the marine life and the life of the microscopic realm. Which is a good thing. IMO.
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