: Avatar: The Way of the Water review – tired climate clichés distract from Cameron’s vision #IndiaNEWSAll #Entertainment It’s been 13 long years since we last visited the planet of Pandora.

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Avatar: The Way of the Water review – tired climate clichés distract from Cameron’s vision #IndiaNEWSAll #Entertainment
It’s been 13 long years since we last visited the planet of Pandora. During that time back here on Earth, we’ve seen huge tumultuousness: economic crises, the rise of populist politics, a deadly global pandemic, and a growing climate emergency. But on Pandora, very little has changed.
The main hero of the first Avatar film, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), is still leader of the Na’vi tribe. The tribe still live a symbiotic life with nature and the forests are still awash with neon flora and exotic fauna. Sully now has a family though: four children including an adopted child called Kiri (Sigourney Weaver).
The trailer for James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of the Water.
Perhaps in an attempt to keep in tune with the development of cinematic universe franchises (one of the biggest popular culture changes in the last 13 years), director James Cameron has decided to rehash the themes of the first film only bigger, louder, and with a more substantial CGI budget. But in so doing, he has created a sequel that, while visually stunning, has stunted politics.
It isn’t long into the film that the “sky people” (the invading and colonising humans Sully was once among) make their return.
As if the last 13 years hadn’t happened, we are once again fed the plot of an evil imperialistic force fighting against a nature-loving indigenous population. Only this time it’s wetter and with bigger animals.
If the first installment was Pocahontas in Space, Avatar: The Way of the Water is Free Willy in Space.
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The Way of the Water’s climate catastrophe
For those who haven’t kept up, Pandora is a far-away planet, rich in natural resources that the greedy human race is looking to mine. In the first film, it was the very valuable (if ridiculously named) unobtainium that they were willing to kill for.
This time, humans are looking for a new home away from a dying Earth.
This threat is explored through the familiar science fiction cinematic narrative of an invading army (who are working for a corporation looking to extract resources) fighting against an insurgent indigenous people.

This is a common cinematic allegory used to depict practices of colonialism that tie military offences tightly with the motivations of profiteering international corporations. Last year’s Dune, a similar science fiction epic, has clear colonial overtures, and since 9/11, many American cinematic adventures have played on how the US waged it’s imperialistic war on terror.
After a prolonged introductory conflict, Sully is forced to flee his forest home and take his family to a distant tribe living on and in the water.

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