Normally, I don’t like anything that’s being in the hype zone. I postpone indefinitely listening to bands, watching movies, meeting people or reading books the truth about which is blurred by the murmur of the crowds. That said, I must also mention to the innocent I normally don’t watch movies either and I see cinema as a waste of time which I go through with when I gotta waste time. That said too, I had a good feeling about Avatar, and when that warm evening, сиреч нощеска, troubled home alone by a cold, a friend suggested he should drive us both to witness the 3D, in the words of Rainbow, I surreeeendered.

Just to get this one thing out of the way, cause otherwise I will have to say it at the end and screw it all up - Sam Worthington. I first witnessed him on a mind-blowingly boring date at the movies in Ireland, though I should say surprisingly the date was not boring because of the fact I was at the cinema. Worthington, apart from being number one on my “I-want-you-to-screw-me-on-the-kitchen-table (and-every-other-surface)” list since I first laid eyes on him, immediately placed himself up there among the “people-who-are-really-talented-actors” list. The guy actually made the summer Terminator not just not bad, but a movie centered more around the plot and actor game than around effects. Worthington is not the only actor that is hot in Avatar, and this time by hot I don’t mean good-looking - perhaps for the first time I saw team-play obvious among the actors in the movie.

And, with that, here you go with some psyence fiction. People will perhaps not see this movie as one about aliens. Well it is for me, only this time we are the aliens. Those apocalyptic pictures from the end-of-the-world scenarios is what humanity brings to the local population when they decide to expand. And unlike us, that have for the most part long lost touch with nature and are now reminded of it just because it is threatening to give us the boot, the local population of Pandora are truly connected to everything on their world. Are we indeed the victims we make of ourselves in the aliens’ movies when, reading about humanity trying to find resources on other planets, nobody in scientific news or articles is trying to conceive that we are looking for resources in order to exploit them. If there really are living organisms somewhere else and we move in to save our asses, it means we will just destroy their world to make space for ours to move in. Exaggerated as it may sound to you, when the humans cut the first tree in Avatar, I cried with the locals, and continued to cry for a good part of the movie, because I felt the falling of every tree on Earth that was cut so we can print napkins for Mickey D that go straight to the trash. While the Pandora people have an outsider do that to their world, we are doing this to ours. And because most of us chose to turn their backs and not look it doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. It happens. It happens right now. And you, yes you - you didn’t do anything about it, and it is your fault as much as it is mine and the people that destroy the place we live in. Remember that little word. You. As the Pandora people say, all energy is simply borrowed and one day it must return. Now go watch the movie. It is perhaps one of the greatest peaces of art made. And when you get out of the movie salon, stare at the gray world and fake conveniences you think you need to be happy, and don’t sink back into oblivion, but think. You wouldn’t believe the things that will cross you asleep mind. Believe it, or not. Z.