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- First reviewJanuary 1, 2010
- Last reviewOctober 3, 2010
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Beautifully filmed, excellent casting
PostedOctober 3, 2010
TwoAnthropologists
from Norman, OK
Even knowing the outcome (more or less), this is a gripping story, and well worth seeing on the big screen just to see a thoroughbred run in super-slow motion all the way across the screen. It's a Disney movie, so it's thin (it almost ignores the obvious race and class issues in the story), but it's entertaining...and it really is a good story about the team of people and a horse who made such an extraordinary thing happen.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Rancid ideas passed off as fresh
PostedJanuary 1, 2010
TwoAnthropologists
from Norman, OK
There is no doubt that Avatar is a visually spectacular film. What a shame that all that innovation is used to present 19th-century views of indigenous people: naive, animal-like, humorless, and in touch with nature. These ideas are not just old and mistaken they are also dangerous, because they have justified domination. Cameron tells an apparently anti-colonial (and pro-environmental) tale, but this view of the natives means that they must be saved by an outsider, who is supposedly more spiritually advanced and even better able to do what the natives themselves have taught him to do. He even gets the girl, and of course she's a princess. Avatar is a caustic blend of Dances with Wolves, Disney's Pocahontas, Karate Kid, and The Smurfs.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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