Avatar

Jan 16 Part B

After Avatar

Well, John went to see Avatar at the largest Imax screen in the world - 8 stories high... and he loved it. He saw it as a morality tale of more than superficial good versus evil. It was, he thought, about the contest between good and evil that lies in all humanity and at many levels. We have the knowledge to know the ways we should be treating our Mother Earth and we have the capacity to destroy her. We have the morality to know how we should treat our brothers and sisters and we have the power to destroy relationships and entire peoples. We have the knowledge that we should be treating our fellow creatures and plants with care yet we are killing them at phenomenal rates without care.

But this was a story that should have been told in words whether aloud or written. The message kind of gets lost in the glamorous computer animation - which was spectacular - and the battle scenes. John said it was the best flight animation he had ever seen. It also had to have a Hollywood ending because it was on film and took hundreds of millions of dollars to make and needed to make that money back many times over. And that hurts the morality of the story itself. How ironic!

So, yes it gets John's and my two thumbs up. It was a fitting ending to a fantastic few days in Sydney.

TRB