Check out this blogger's take on the racial messages in Avatar: http://io9.com/5422666/when-will-white-people-stop-making-movies-like-avatar . Very thought provoking.
Some pulled quotes to pique your interest:
"In both Avatar and District 9, humans are the cause of alien oppression and distress. Then, a white man who was one of the oppressors switches sides at the last minute, assimilating into the alien culture and becoming its savior."
"This is the essence of the white guilt fantasy, laid bare. It's not just a wish to be absolved of the crimes whites have committed against people of color; it's not just a wish to join the side of moral justice in battle. It's a wish to lead people of color from the inside rather than from the (oppressive, white) outside."
"...it is nevertheless a story that revisits the same old tropes of colonization. Whites still get to be leaders of the natives"
Sunday, January 3, 2010
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