Finally, after four years (!) Are back in a movie theater, irreplaceable place of secular shared attention. I saw Avatar , produced the film, expensive and technologically advanced. To spur the enthusiastic opinion of Spielberg, an artist who has always admired.
I had the good fortune to watch the film in an empty room, alone with my dear cousin, film lover, who, having decided, after ten minutes, the movie was awful, he began to annotate every scene, accusing him of being useless review of topoi beaten by American cinema: a border-line character encounters a new civilization first skeptical and convinced of his inferiority, then more and more involved (even the other people affected by a female), and can become an integral and get to fight against its own people belong. Dances with Wolves, very high, and - while beautiful - The Last Samurai address this issue: the "clash of civilizations" that has - genocide - and removed the Native Americans - the other - "modernized" Japan. Why propose, therefore, this issue in the future? Only to deploy a powerful arsenal of special effects? Elaborating that provocation has come to the conclusion that "Avatar" is a great movie, not just the technology, while fascinating, but mainly because it re-theme of the "clash" and with a scientific-philosophical-spiritual background that there could be in similar films. While it is true that both the Native American culture that is steeped in Japanese with stretches of deep spirituality pantheistic and deeply respectful of nature, however, only since the Sixties has begun to structure a thought that crossed ecology, physics , biology and spirituality, has challenged the paradigm of "mechanistic" hard to die, also subject to powerful shots from the second scientific revolution (that of the early twentieth century). I think that the disclosure of these acquisitions did Fritjof Capra in books like The Tao of Physics , The turning point , The Web of Life: "It's a new thought process, characterized in a holistic sense or more systemic: it is so named because it emphasizes the system, the network consists of multiple complex interrelationships, and not the individual constituent units (as would the analytical approach of Cartesian). Following this approach, which focuses on the "web of life" (very effective image often used by Capra) and interconnections Cosmic, man himself is seen as part of nature (and not in opposition to it) "(Wikipedia ). Here, I believe that Avatar is a brilliant film and paradoxical because at the height of technology tells us that technology will not save us, that it will lead to even worse that we can commit murder that is not of God the Father, as he thought Nietzsche, but that of the Mother Earth (which it did in the movie). And it is a radical film because it contrasts with the community life of the Na'vi "superomismo" individualistic men, solitary monads and obsessed by money alone. It is a radical film because it imagines a world in which, knowing to be part of the web of life, so you kill to feed but please on the corpse of the killed, knowing that "we are one."
Above all, and I end up responding to my cousin, move into the future clash of civilizations was needed to pretend (beneficial illusion!) That there will be a happy ending: we know that the Indian tribes were wiped out, forced to reservations, finally annihilated casinos, we know that Japan, after the Meiji Restoration, the most sinister features borrowed from the West of imperialism and racism. Looking at "Avatar" and the Mother
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