After RickyM‘s and D.M. Murdock‘s review pieces, you might want to compare and contrast hip Christian preacher Mark Driscoll’s view on the film:
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I was more interested in the fact that he has…
Two home theatre systems and three tivos ? wow.
“The world tempts you to sin…” he says. If we go into the essence of what he says, we might agree. But, you see, MTM, they aren’t saying this in this spirit. Take the labels off the belief systems first, and we might get into a more provocatively enlightening discussion.
He also used “primitive” in ways that show he doesn’t exactly know what he’s saying. Oh my goodness, there is nothing advanced about him and he is spitting the word primitive like a sour gum. He is, in fact, singing an old medieval song.
“False mediator with the witch…” he adds. This reminds me of the Bubonic Plague. How disconnected those people from nature, they killed all the cats believing that these were favorite pets of the witches, and, naturally, this caused an imbalance and the whole rat race literally plagued the land.
Driscol is not a fundamentalist. He’s better off saying he doesn’t know and he doesn’t understand, like all the rest of his predecessors. Better yet, he doesn’t care. It is no easy task to accept oneself completely, so a part of me can’t blame him.
Whilst I can’t blame people for espousing their views, no matter how relatively myopic, I do blame his viewers if they take his comments without any critical thought.
However, Driscoll does attack Avatar with an incisiveness similar to what critical thinking is all about, just that his critique is based on assumptions and beliefs that he won’t open to scrutiny–which is ironic.
And the consequences he espouse (i.e. Satan) is hardly troubling for me. I think the bigger “Satan” is to espouse ignorance.
Besides I enjoyed the movie!
The religion meme is strong in him.
As for your sentiments about the film, as William Blake said, “Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”
Yes the movie was visually beautiful and mesmerizing but the story was so ridiculous it was laughable. The evil American militarial capitalist dudes and gals vs the beautiful people who are one with nature. Although they are solely motivated by greed and have no qualms about blowing to smithereens the indiginous peoples to get the coveted prize that only existed under the sacred tree, they still spared no expense to develope an empty being that could be activated by a human being while asleep, just to give these disposable creatures one last chance to comply. Are people so hypnotized by the visual that they can’t get just how bad the story is?
I take it as a kind of fairytale, though. Something like an adult fairytale like “Into The Woods.”
The whole way through the movie Avatar I was reminded of the situation in West Papua, where western interests focus on the world’s largest gold and copper mines, paying the corrupt Indonesian military to defend the mines against the “savages” around them. The indigenous Papuans object to the mines because they are pushed off their land without any say, their rivers are poisoned and their lives are ruined. Roughly 100,000 West Papuans have been killed by the Indonesian military since the mid 1960′s, and both the Australian and US governments tidy up the details to protect their mining interests. Indonesia has been working to have the West Papuans and their spears declared as terrorists so that it becomes our moral duty to wipe them out.
As a Christian, I long for the day that people like Mark Driscoll get their heads enough into the Bible to see that God says repeatedly throughout it how he “hates” us doing church if there is injustice, if the weak are victimised and that the land “mourns to him” when no one takes it to heart.
Avatar is a bold attempt to expose the way we are able to make evil look good when we worship money and comfort. The fact that the story was presented with a “pagan” edge to it is because the people like Driscoll who should have been carrying out their duty to tell the story have turned their backs on their prophetic role.
i think your a dumbass y r u talken shit bout this movie. you think religion is good follow god all this bs when if u think about it how many different religions r there arguing that there right and other arent you call this movie satanic demonic blah and really your at war with other religions with out the killing blowing stuff up come on now you just dont have anything better to talk about or it feels good when ppl agree with you. listen……. mark start thinking outside the box get out of your religious bs for all you know your god is satan key word KNOW stop preaching bs get on with your life dont judge anything ps i dont like that movie its stupid. i once knew this man that went into a Christian church asking if they could hlp feed his family what did they say..??? well would have to speek to the (higher ups) forget wut there called so dont think for a damn second religion will lead you a happy life either.
you should belive what u know not what you read or hear
george? inhale, exhale. failure is an option and that’s the option he chose.