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Avatar - Strong Messages
15 years ago
Well, it's finnaly happened. I've been saving the money for it and we got our Avatar, Extended Collector's Edition today.
This isn't going to be a worshiping fan journal or anything so don't get me wrong here. I love the movie.. it was great. And seeing this extended edition with so much more of the story explained, I just enjoyed it more and I'm very glad I got it.
But where I'm finding the wealth of this is not in the movie itself.. Its in the special features. We got the bluray version, and have been watching the special features discs.
He shows a lot of information about the behind the scenes for the movie, and those are pretty cool. But what I'm enjoying most is a lot of these environmental messages he's got on there. One in particular that I was enjoying was called "A Message From Pandora" in which he tells of a trip he took to Brazil.
For those of you who don't know, there's a lot of big shit going on in Brazil right now. They're planning a major dam, and up to 60 more all over the rainforest to supply themselves electricity in a very inefficent way. I'm not some tree hugger or a hardcore environmentalist, but I can see the problems this is going to create.
One of the biggest problems that this is going to create is all of the indigenous peopel that are going to be displaced by the flooding of their anscetral homes. This is an insane idea that is foreign to most of us who sit here in our homes. But if you want to bring it a little closer to something that you could understand,.. This flooding is also going to impact a city.. .And there are thousands of homes that are going to be forced underwater by this flooding.
Imagine if the goverment decided that they were going to make a dam a few miles away from where you live... And by making this dam your entire town was going to be flooded, and you were going to be moved wether you liked it or not. They're offering you a paltry little sum for your cooperation in moving, and then ignoring all of your protests.
That wouldn't work here in north america... So why are we letting it happen elsewhere in the world? Why is it okay to do this to the native species of what precious few rainforests we have left, but its not okay to do it here in our own homes? Why do we have a double standard here for something so fundamentally important as a person's home?
I know that I personally am going to be looking more into this, and why it's being allowed to happen. I'm not saying that you should rush out and yell at your goverment or run down to brazil to try and chain yourself to a tree. It's just something that struck me and really made me stop to think.
Perhaps there's nothing I personally can do about it. But the more people that are made aware of this kind of thing, the more people can speak up and soon no one can stop it. But hey, that's just my thoughts. And while I'm really intrigued by what I've learned and what I've seen, not everyone will be.
If you want to learn more, I encourage you to. If you want to write this off as some nut hearing an environmentalist message then you can belive that too. I just think it's wrong... And I want to learn more. Take from this what you will
This isn't going to be a worshiping fan journal or anything so don't get me wrong here. I love the movie.. it was great. And seeing this extended edition with so much more of the story explained, I just enjoyed it more and I'm very glad I got it.
But where I'm finding the wealth of this is not in the movie itself.. Its in the special features. We got the bluray version, and have been watching the special features discs.
He shows a lot of information about the behind the scenes for the movie, and those are pretty cool. But what I'm enjoying most is a lot of these environmental messages he's got on there. One in particular that I was enjoying was called "A Message From Pandora" in which he tells of a trip he took to Brazil.
For those of you who don't know, there's a lot of big shit going on in Brazil right now. They're planning a major dam, and up to 60 more all over the rainforest to supply themselves electricity in a very inefficent way. I'm not some tree hugger or a hardcore environmentalist, but I can see the problems this is going to create.
One of the biggest problems that this is going to create is all of the indigenous peopel that are going to be displaced by the flooding of their anscetral homes. This is an insane idea that is foreign to most of us who sit here in our homes. But if you want to bring it a little closer to something that you could understand,.. This flooding is also going to impact a city.. .And there are thousands of homes that are going to be forced underwater by this flooding.
Imagine if the goverment decided that they were going to make a dam a few miles away from where you live... And by making this dam your entire town was going to be flooded, and you were going to be moved wether you liked it or not. They're offering you a paltry little sum for your cooperation in moving, and then ignoring all of your protests.
That wouldn't work here in north america... So why are we letting it happen elsewhere in the world? Why is it okay to do this to the native species of what precious few rainforests we have left, but its not okay to do it here in our own homes? Why do we have a double standard here for something so fundamentally important as a person's home?
I know that I personally am going to be looking more into this, and why it's being allowed to happen. I'm not saying that you should rush out and yell at your goverment or run down to brazil to try and chain yourself to a tree. It's just something that struck me and really made me stop to think.
Perhaps there's nothing I personally can do about it. But the more people that are made aware of this kind of thing, the more people can speak up and soon no one can stop it. But hey, that's just my thoughts. And while I'm really intrigued by what I've learned and what I've seen, not everyone will be.
If you want to learn more, I encourage you to. If you want to write this off as some nut hearing an environmentalist message then you can belive that too. I just think it's wrong... And I want to learn more. Take from this what you will
dotter
~dotter
I understand that when Hydro Quebec went ahead with the James Bay project, they did much the same to the Cree who lived there; flooded whole villages. Damfino how they got away with it...
