So I'm pretty excited. It hasn't even been a whole week and I found something so unbelievably epic, I just can't help but spread this joy to the rest of the... well, anyone who happens to stumble upon this when they should be doing homework or something of value.
CNN.com is one of my favorite haunts recently, and an article caught my interest from the first words of the title: Audience Experiences 'Avatar' Blues.
To be honest, my favorite part of the title was the fact they used blue, and the Avatar people are blue, and that kind of horrid joke is my favorite kind of horrid.
The main point of this article is that someone watched the movie, and then realized that life here in the real world isn't as pretty. They now have suicidal thoughts.
I stifled my internal commentary on natural selection, and continued into the depths of this great piece of journalism.
A fan forum site mentioned in the article has been flooded with comments about how depressed people are getting, and the administrator and obviously great guy Philippe Baghdassarian expressed his understanding about people and their blue feelings.
He went on to express his sympathy saying, quote (usually, "quote" is used when speaking to tell someone you are quoting someone, and quotation marks usually suffice in written things, but I just wanted to emphasise the degree to which this quote is remarkable as being real), "But I can understand why it made people depressed. The movie was so beautiful and it showed something we don't have here on Earth. I think people saw we could be living in a completely different world and that caused them to be depressed."
I don't think I'm grasping at air when I suggest the obvious implication is that without some fateful decision made by the evil somebodies, Earth would be like it is on "Pandora."
And why would I be? We all know that, without the evils of humanity, we could also be seven foot tall blue people. We would live in jungles, wear little to nothing, and have USB ports in our ponytails. That is pretty much common knowledge.
Too bad we missed that opportunity.
The most compelling argument is made by a 17 year old from Sweden. According to him, everything seemed like it had "lost its meaning." He clarified that "It just seems so... meaningless."
He made it very clear that he lives "in a dying world."
Obviously the only person CNN.com could reach for comment, the Swede responded via e mail and spoke quite poetically about his depression.
Sadly for those of us out of high school, it would appear that we have all missed our chance to become somebody in the world.
The article goes on to claim that the movie creates 'separation anxiety' whenever viewers leave the theater.
I don't think I need to expand on that.
I had gotten this far into the article and was kind of saddened, depressed maybe?, that the article of such tremendous commentary provoking potential was going to come to a close.
My worries were premature.
Evidently one of the actors was available for comment. Stephen Lang, who played the antagonist in the film, commented on the dream like quality and how fantastically the movie is done.
This seems to have shocked the author of the article as it was mentions that fans might find him "an unlikely sympathiser."
This is naturally because he portrays the enemy of all that is happy in the movie.
I'm not sure that the author is aware that Mr. Lang was doing what most people refer to as "acting."
Naturally, the proposed cure is video games and downloading soundtracks.
I still want to ride one of those freakin jungle horses.
Too bad the world is dying and polluted...
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12JAN10-
I forgot about floating mountains, which we could also have.
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