| rocketpig said: I hate to say it but I didn't find the Na'Vi interesting as characters either. The ol' "we'll fight 'em to the end, no matter the disadvantage" tribal stance isn't new, either, and I found their African tribal getup and music far too blatantly allusory for my tastes. In fact, the Na'Vi were downright MORONIC in the movie. I mean, for crying out loud, these people have GUNSHIPS versus your arrows. Anyone who is smarter than a tadpole knows to stay the hell out of that fight, yet they steadfastly tried to hold on to their home without any kind of reasonable defensive plan or... well, anything, really. The humans had been there for years but it seemed as if the Na'Vi weren't interested in forming a strategy past "shoot arrows at the truck tires". Maybe the Colonel was the smartest guy in the film... Those ridiculous smurfs deserved to be wiped out for being cork-on-the-fork stupid. Now that I think of it, I don't know if there was one intelligent character in that entire bloody film. |
To the Na'Vi, the world was them. There were connected to it in a way humans can not understand.
They were not fighting for some chunk of land, or a tree. They were fighting for themselves. It's like if your chained to a table, and a saw is coming down on your arm, even if you have no chance to save it, your going to fight against the restraints until your arm is cut off.
The part of the movie I found to be stupid, is the fact that the 'company' used force at all. The least profitable way to achieve a goal, is through military. They would have tried many other ways first.
Also, with so much mineral on the planet worth so much money, they would have harvested the areas where it's easy to get to for hundreds of years before they invaded that location.
It's just an example of hollywood portraying corporate america as evil. Not only an inaccurate message to send, it's a sad commentary on where we are in the world that succeeding in business has somehow become a bad thing.
