review of Avatar 阿凡达影评

Shamo Li
March 9, 2010 Cinema 201
Chris Fisher
Review of ‘Avatar’
According to James Cameron's 'Avatar', it takes place in the year 2154, on a planet called Pandora where American corporations and their military mercbenaries have set up bases to mine a surpassingly precious mineral called unobtanium.
A marine named Jake is dispatched to the faraway planet, Pandora, where lives blue-skinned Na'vi people, in order to get Na'vi people's trust and then convince them to decamp. Jake transfers his spirit into a remotely controlled Na'vi body, called an avatar. But as Jake mingles with the Na'vi People, he gradually develops a close bond with the locals and finally decides to stand on their side against the human threat. ‘Avatar’is a very good movie, because it has a good 3-D effect and a nice idea.
When the movie begins, put the 3-D glasses on my face and I get a sense of delight that quickly gives way to a sense of astonishment. The 3-D effect mixes live action, motion-capture, animation,
computer-generated images and whatever other techniques all together seamlessly. In the beginning, we do not feel lots of 3-D special effect,
but the movie seems to be normal, real things. We are in the movie, in the office and see the special and beautiful world on the Pandora through the windows. Or follow Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), the owner of a Avatar, to enjoy the wonderful and magical world –the mountains in the sky, the colorful and light trees, and flamboyant dragons. When the hero and the heroine fall in love, when it is very peaceful, the war comes. It is the first hit of the 3-D effect, from the American military, and give us lots of contrast from before. Mr. Cameron has devoted a significant chunk of his movie to a dark, didactic war, complete with napalm, Agent Orange and helicopter gunships. Whatever one may think of the politics of this antiwar section, two things can be said with certainty: it provokes an adrenaline rush, and it feels a lot better when it's over.
Addition to the 3-D effect, the idea of ‘Avatar’ is very nice. Through the movie, we can see many problems about the politic, race, religion, environment and culture. The 3-D effect also stresses these problems, such as what I write above, the dark war, which seems like Vietnam war. The movie also tells us to protect the environment. The nature is our mother and she is very powerful. If we hurt her a lot, we will get revenge.
Therefore, ‘Avatar’ is not only a very nice movie, it also is a deep mine of treasure, that we can find more things in it.。