What do you think, alien or native?
Of all the coverage on Avatar, one of the highest grossing movies to date, there now seems to be some sort of new hearsay against the movie – racism! Apparently the movie, which tells the story of a human inhabiting an alien body who turns against ‘his own kind’ (the humans) in a plot to save the ‘alien kind’, is actually promoting racist themes.
Since its release last month, hundreds of blog posts, articles, tweets and YouTube videos have criticised that the movie contained racist themes and that ‘the whites prevail over the primitive natives’ once again. However, the film’s writer and director, James Cameron, explains that the real theme has nothing to do with racism, or whites, or primitive natives. It is about respecting the differences in others. Five stars to Cameron!
Just because the key character is a Caucasian and that he saves the aliens, that doesn’t make the movie at all racist. Perhaps a little clichéd, but that’s just it. Whatever happened to just enjoying the movie as it is?
Of all the coverage on Avatar, one of the highest grossing movies to date, there now seems to be some sort of new hearsay against the movie – racism! Apparently the movie, which tells the story of a human inhabiting an alien body who turns against ‘his own kind’ (the humans) in a plot to save the ‘alien kind’, is actually promoting racist themes.
Since its release last month, hundreds of blog posts, articles, tweets and YouTube videos have criticised that the movie contained racist themes and that ‘the whites prevail over the primitive natives’ once again. However, the film’s writer and director, James Cameron, explains that the real theme has nothing to do with racism, or whites, or primitive natives. It is about respecting the differences in others. Five stars to Cameron!
Just because the key character is a Caucasian and that he saves the aliens, that doesn’t make the movie at all racist. Perhaps a little clichéd, but that’s just it. Whatever happened to just enjoying the movie as it is?
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