Avatar

Last weekend I went and saw the movie Avatar. It was about former Marine Jake Sully who had lost the use of his legs, went to a far off galaxy to a small moon called Pandora, which America had colonized. He takes the role of his brother’s avatar, which is a body that your mind enters, and the body is very similar to the Na’vi people on Pandora. The people were great warriors and were very strong, and had many connections to almost everything around them. The Na’vi’s home is on a huge deposit of unobtanium, a very rare mineral that sells for 2 million dollars an ounce on Earth.
This movie is very much like South Africa. The Na’vi people’s home land was colonized, much like the Zulu and the Xhosa, and once they found out that there was a fortune to be made (unobtanium in Avatars case, and gold and diamonds in South Africa’s case) they started to push the native people off their land.
I think that this movie, really says something about how much not so much America, but the whole world has pushed peaceful native people off of their land, just because they were short on money. I think Avatar was a great movie, not just because of the special effects and action, but because it should open the eyes of people, because just because that natives can look and act different, they are still people, and they should be treated so.

In the movie, Jake gives information about Hometree (the Na’vi’s home) to Colonel Miles Quaritch, a ruthless military leader who only cares about money, and has no regard for the native people. Jake did it because the Colonel promised him he’d get his legs back if he cooperated so he did. Finally, Jake wakes up and sees that this is wrong, but it’s too late. The Americans attacked home tree and tore it down. It killed almost all the Na’vi and Jake had the people fight back. It worked, and the Americans left, and Jake left his human body forever.