Avatar: The Way Of Water Doesn't Redeem Jake Sully And That's The Point

Dec 16 2022 by /Film

 

This post contains spoilers for "Avatar: The Way of Water."

While James Cameron's 2009 film "Avatar" was visually dazzling, and pushed movie special effects to new highs, one can find many, many flaws in its story. Most notably, "Avatar" can serve as a tired a trite "White man goes native" narrative, left over from the days of American colonialist fantasies by James Fenimore Cooper. Plenty of feature films have repeated the trope in the past, of course, with "Lawrence of Arabia," "Dances with...

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