yyaldrin
in je ogen waait de wind
it really is a strange movie. i saw it the other day and was surprised how pleasant it was to look at. the story is kinda crap and maybe even disturbing? i just felt that all those green and blue tones put me in a good mood during winter, seeing those aliens surfing the sparkling sea on their dolphin pets or them flying on their eagles high above the lush rainforest.
entertainment
Well-known member
thought it was great, in the cinema i could feel the dormant fascia reconnecting, new muscle fibers astir beneath my skin, an atavistic call to elagant body action. went to the public swimming pool next day and swirled around extravagantly.
sus
Moderator
from K-PUnk:
> No primitivist cliche is left untouched in Cameron’s depiction of the Na’vi people and their world, Pandora. These elegant blue-skinned noble savages are at one with their beautiful world; they are Deleuzean Spinozists who recognise that a vital flow pervades everything; they respect natural balance; they are adept hunters, but, after they kill their prey they thank its “brother spirit”; the trees whisper with the voices of their revered ancestors.
> Sully attains wholeness through his avatar Na’vi body in a double sense: first, because the avatar is able-bodied, and, secondly, because the Na’vi are intrinsically more “whole” than the (self-)destructive humans. Sully, the marine who is “really” a tree-hugging primitive, is a paradigm of that late capitalist subjectivity which disavows its modernity. There’s something wonderfully ironic about the fact that Sully’s – and our – identification with the Na’vi depends upon the very advanced technology that the Na’vi’s way of life makes impossible.
> No primitivist cliche is left untouched in Cameron’s depiction of the Na’vi people and their world, Pandora. These elegant blue-skinned noble savages are at one with their beautiful world; they are Deleuzean Spinozists who recognise that a vital flow pervades everything; they respect natural balance; they are adept hunters, but, after they kill their prey they thank its “brother spirit”; the trees whisper with the voices of their revered ancestors.
> Sully attains wholeness through his avatar Na’vi body in a double sense: first, because the avatar is able-bodied, and, secondly, because the Na’vi are intrinsically more “whole” than the (self-)destructive humans. Sully, the marine who is “really” a tree-hugging primitive, is a paradigm of that late capitalist subjectivity which disavows its modernity. There’s something wonderfully ironic about the fact that Sully’s – and our – identification with the Na’vi depends upon the very advanced technology that the Na’vi’s way of life makes impossible.
