A Film You Should Never Miss--Review for Avatar

You have so many reasons to expect Avatar: it is a film directed by James Cameron, who makes one of the most successful films Tatanic, it costs the director 14 years and $250 million, it shows you a brilliant planet which you could only expect in your dream... Just as the famous critic Roger Ebert writes: "Once again, he has silenced the doubters by simply delivering an extraordinary film. There is still at least one man in Hollywood who knows how to spend $250 million, or was it $300 million, wisely."

The first thing that Avatar captures you is its visual impact. Certainly James Cameron does not waste 14 years and that big sum of money, he successfully turns these into a unbelievably glamous planet Pandora. In days you see clear blue sky with unknown purple strange dragons flying, at night there are beautiful planets and colourful lights; you see new plants, animals who look like those in mythology and a totally new species with blue skin and gloden eyes... It is said that the director spends years in creating such a dreamy planet and even can publish a book about its biological circle and the language of Navi, the special species living in Phadora. The hard working and persistance to this imaginative world of the director has awarded him the perfect visual impact of Avatar.

The second advantage of this film is the story. You read out antiwarism, environmental protection and peace in this film. When labelled as 3D film, Avatar may give people the impression that it is only a sensational film; but James Cameron proves his ambitious to make this film far more significant. It tells out how the leading role tries his best to protect a totally new planet from the ruin of human being. At the same time it shows to the audience the love between different species, and the anxiety to protect the green and harmonious biological circle in this planet. Combining with the Copenhagen coference discussing about climate change, this film certainly contains much significance.

However, it still does not get away with the Hollywood pattern. If you look into it, it is still about the-American-rescue-the-world stereotype. Even this time it is the Navi species, they are still waiting for the leading role--an American--to save them from death. When the hero is not in his Avatar, an artificial body designed to explore Pandora, he is a paraplegic and much the same like the ordinary. But when he is transfered to his new body, he is able to do a lot more. He learns the language, he masters the most brilliant dragon in this star, he marries the best woman of Navi, he saves the whole species and even the whole planet... OK, it is still the same--people are in difficulties and an American hero appears and rescue them all.

Still, it is a good film which you should never miss in present. If planning to watch it, remember to book the IMAX 3D version, you will get the best enjoyment.