Gone Under Sea

by Electrelane

AVATAR : WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY JAMES CAMERON

(very loooooong review!!omg!)
(MAYBE CONTAIN SPOILERS) Let's talk animation greatness. Let's talk about how James Cameron minds work up to the extent were impossible was only an expression without definition. i shall start with the storyline. i do have in mind that this is another film about saving the world, on becoming a unexpected hero, and the wars along the way. however, i was curious how the storyline works this time. the first scene were Jake Sully's (played by Sam Worthington) brother were murdered after being mugged. this was the first message that James thought us, about human behavior in this so called civilized world. people get killed on the street because of money. similar when they were in Pandora (planet's name), the Na'vi (the natives in Pandora) were manipulated just because they wanted a mineral rock that costs millions of dollars under the Hometree. after they realise that diplomatic (what they like to call it) way won't succeed, they destroy the place and even killed some of the Na'vi. how humane and civilized they were in the name of economy. The faith the Na'vi had with their spiritual God name Eyra is so strong that when Jake tries to follow a native warrior Neytiri home, the seeds of Eyra (what they called it) flies near and rest on Jakes whole body, she instantly thought it was a sign. A big sign. She then decided to bring him to his mother, a spiritual shaman. even when Jake ask to save Grace (played by Sigourney Weaver), the Omaticaya tribe reach out to Eyra at the tree of souls. here we see how faith can bring us together. And love decides to bloom along the way as Jake fells for Neytiri.

Lets talk graphic. Love the cgi and all, kudos to technology capability. like Pandora was real and the creatures did exist. the smoothness of the motion and the reaction of every animated characters are very much believable. i love the scene where Jake's torch were put out and the forest starts to glowed from every part, plus the ground would glow where the characters stepped on it. however, you'll be the judge when you see it. Its only one person's views after all!

Despite the great CGI, i don't really agree on shots that were zoom in most frankly or spy-cam-liked-style. some scene for me was appropriate but some just kills the emotion especially when Jake confronted the tribe. the emotion were suppose to be overwhelmed, not suspense.

p/s : kudos to the Na'vi language. somehow it just appropriate for a native tribe from another planet language. =)

p/s : this post supposed to be out three days ago, but thanks to the PMS net, it got delayed. FYI