Releasing this December 18, a good movie to look out for is this holiday's season's Avatar. I'm sure many of you have seen the preview for this movie, but I think many of us overlooked it as being a winner.
Upon further review, I think that this movie is going to be a must-see. It deals with so many issues that people are becoming increasingly interested in. The movie is about an ex-marine who finds himself in the middle of a battle between the humans of Earth and a strange planet and its indigenous people. Humans are trying to take over the planet and wipe out the indigenous people, who are not going down without a fight, and who the humans have found are very hard to kill. He is asked to become an "Avatar", a process where his consciousness is transferred over to the body of an alien of the planet. He is asked to assimilate into the indigenous people's culture and find out a way to kill them and report back to the humans. He then finds himself in a struggle between two worlds, his own and that of this new planet. He know it is wrong to kill of all of the indigenous aliens, but is torn as to what decision to make.
The movie takes on several issues including that of the U.S. in the 1800's and the ideals of Manifest Destiny and whether or not we have the write to claim other territories as our own if we can prove that we are "superior". I think that Avatar is going to be a surprisingly good film given its content and they have really done an extraordinary job creating an alternate planet and species of people. Hope you will all go see!
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