The whole movie made the Pandora lifestyle seem pretty sweet. What is the surprise that some people would have a thought that they’d prefer giving that a go to whatever crap they deal with in jobs/debts/taxes etc. etc. Add in a bunch of depression prone people and sooner or later some fool will decide his life sucks compared to this fantasy one and then proceed to jump off a bridge.
Consider this fantasy life:
The landscape is stunning - floating mountains, everything glows at night.
You can plug into your partner, so sex is better somehow.
Everyone has an ideal body type, you and your mate are both beautiful. All these beautiful beings walk around mostly naked all the time and the temperature is such you don’t need clothes/blankets even at night.
Coming of age means you get to fly on giant birds who you share thoughts with. They fly wherever you ‘think’
No one was shown doing any type of hard labor. Just a little hunting once in awhile. Otherwise, food is presumably plentyful with the lush vegetation.
You’re really strong, and due to that and the planets weaker gravity/thicker air density you are able to fall great distances with minimal affects if you manage to snag a leaf or two on the way down.
Perhaps one difference between this fantasy and other movie fantasies is you don’t have to be a hero blue person to enjoy the above things. Any average blue person gets to have all of the above. People might relate to that better.
Frankly, if your over-35 unmarried person works in publishing in New York, she is probably female and far too educated for her social peers. Her chances with the terrorists probably are better.
Oh my God, the link to the “otherkin” site is awesomely hilarious. People who think they are elves, vampires and dragons are all upset that someone else thinks he’s really one of the Na’vi.
Doesn’t Kate Winslet’s character cheat on her Fiance with Leo’s character? Then doesn’t Leo, her ‘true love’, die? So she eventually marries again and he’s dead or gone when we see her as an old woman…
There is really no good reason to have a Titanic wedding.
Wait…this movie has been out what, two weeks, it’s not based on a book that has been around for years, and all these people believe that they are Na’vi, have been having (for a long time, so it seems) memories of a place they just found out about two weeks ago, are already writing poetyr in its own made-up language and are saying they’ve always had a strong affinity for X, Y and Z from the movie…that they only started seeing a few weeks ago?
Well, to be fair, the N’avi are so unoriginal that images like them have been around for decades, if not centuries. They just hadn’t previously been all souped up with heavy-duty FX.
I really loved Pandora as a technological and artistic creation but I don’t have the slightest desire to live in something like the Na’vi culture. It’s obviously a very authoritarian society and I doubt that freethinkers or dissenters are much tolerated. And while a beautiful natural world is great I also like my books, movies and technology and wouldn’t particularly like to live in a culture with little or none of these things.
I loved Pandora too and almost wouldn’t mind living there, but I think I’d much prefer to live in Dr. Parnassus’s Imaginarium. As long as I didn’t have to sell my soul to the devil or anything. Well, it depends. Tom Waits is cool.
Tonight on “It’s the Mind” we examine the phenomenon of déjà vu — that strange feeling we sometimes get that we’ve lived through something before, that what is happening now has already happened.
But Titanic is all about what a rare, beautiful, and altogether special creature the woman is, and how her happiness and self-fulfillment are all that matter. The men are interchangeable bits of set decoration, as in your modern formal wedding.
Although I myself was charmed by the beautiful world and culture of the Na’vi, if anything I regret that I’ll never see the fighting mechs and holo-clipboards of the Humans. Where’s the support group for me?
