Post #1214170
2025-12-30 21:59 UTC
I watched #Avatar3 a few days ago. (no Spoiler - true also for #Avatar 1 & 2). This movie surprised me for several reasons.
1️⃣ The hidden take-home message is extremely clear. How such a #movie watched by hundreds millions people can not change in depth our relationship with nature ? Humans are also part of the biosphere.
2️⃣ How a movie criticising capitalism so hard could be funded by one of the most capitalist industry ? Big-money folks are making a lot of money (~2B$ / movie) on a movie in which they clearly are the bad guys.
3️⃣ It's clear that the scientists working in Pandora have little-to-no ethics: they accept to do science while contributing / endorsing the problem (especially in the 2nd and 3rd opus). That's also true IRL. How can they continue doing so after seing movies like this ?
4️⃣ The movie is all about inclusivity and accepting the differences. How some watchers continue to be racists ?
So, it takes me to conclude that either folks don't understand the hidden (not so hidden) messages, or they don't make the fact they are the RDA in the story 😳
#movies #Disney
Replies (5)
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@jfg_astro@fediscience.org 2025-12-30 22:43
@AlexSanterne 2️⃣ is easy: they don’t care being the bad guys as long as they make money.
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@chad006@mastodon.social 2025-12-31 00:12
@AlexSanterne I still have to watch it. Hoping to go on the Jan, 10th.
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@TechnoAnarchist@mastodon.social 2025-12-31 05:24
"The capitalists will sell us the ropes we hang them with."
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@UnionizedNetizen@union.place 2025-12-31 07:16
@AlexSanterne I think the biggest question is how do we make more Jake Sulleys, Spiders, Ian Garvins, and other “traitors” who are prepared to take action and make sacrifices when faced with the horrors enacted by Western Colonialist Capitalism? I don’t think it’s by watching more movies… but idk what the answer is.
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@frank@f.reun.de 2025-12-31 10:58
@AlexSanterne I don't think agree with number 3. I haven't seen the new movie yet, but after one of the others I really wanted to walk barefoot on trees. 😂