First of all, I am a member of the "I love Avatar" club. I can remember when I first saw this film at the midnight IMAX premiere. No one had any idea what they were in store for. I think once it was over and the credits rolled the majority of people were truly dumbfounded by everything this film had to offer and represented. I know that I was personally in tears at the end of it. I'm sure some of the haters out there think this is ridiculous and cheesy but this movie moved me. Anyways.....This scene takes place shortly after Jake Sully is introduced to the Great Leonopteryx. He awakens from his avatar and shares his confusion about what is real and what isn't, reality vs dreaming, and ultimately himself."Everything is backwards now, like out there is the true world, and in here is the dream." At this moment Jake Sully has just awoken from his avatar state. It shows him lying in his pod mystified by where he is. It then shows him getting himself out of his pod; showing his wheelchair signifying the fact that in this world he cannot walk. When Sully is in his "reality" he can walk as an na'vi. He is no longer handicapped and can do things he would never be able to do in his so called "dream" state. What is interesting to me is the way the film during this part of the scene doesn't have any background sound besides what Sully makes as he gets himself out of the pod and rolls himself down the hallway. This to me shows that the creators of this film wanted the audience to pay attention to exactly what Sully was saying. They also wanted you to feel exactly what he was feeling. Here is this guy paralyzed from being who he wants to be in one aspect of his life and being free to be whoever in another. He is torn between two worlds and also two parts of himself. Who is he truly at this point? Is he Jake Sully the crippled veteran or Jake Sully the na'vi? "It's hard to believe its only been three months. I barely remember my old life. I don't know who I am anymore". The video logs are one of my favorite parts of this film. The audience is allowed to feel what Jake Sully is feeling and thinking. As he says this quote I remember feeling so sorry for him. But I also felt like I could somewhat relate to how he was feeling. "I don't know who I am anymore" signifies lost idenity. I know I have lost my identity once or twice. The video logs makes this film seem so much more realistic. It takes a guy from the year 2154 ( as seen in the corner of the picture) and makes him so relatable to current times. I believe this scenes argument is to show that even though there is this crazy technology that allows a human to become a unfamiliar creature (the na'vi) Jake Sully is just human. He has feelings, he is confused, and he is lost. It is a very sad scene in my opinion. Torn between two worlds. If I were him I would be feeling the same way too.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Confused, Torn, and Lost in the world of Avatar.
First of all, I am a member of the "I love Avatar" club. I can remember when I first saw this film at the midnight IMAX premiere. No one had any idea what they were in store for. I think once it was over and the credits rolled the majority of people were truly dumbfounded by everything this film had to offer and represented. I know that I was personally in tears at the end of it. I'm sure some of the haters out there think this is ridiculous and cheesy but this movie moved me. Anyways.....This scene takes place shortly after Jake Sully is introduced to the Great Leonopteryx. He awakens from his avatar and shares his confusion about what is real and what isn't, reality vs dreaming, and ultimately himself."Everything is backwards now, like out there is the true world, and in here is the dream." At this moment Jake Sully has just awoken from his avatar state. It shows him lying in his pod mystified by where he is. It then shows him getting himself out of his pod; showing his wheelchair signifying the fact that in this world he cannot walk. When Sully is in his "reality" he can walk as an na'vi. He is no longer handicapped and can do things he would never be able to do in his so called "dream" state. What is interesting to me is the way the film during this part of the scene doesn't have any background sound besides what Sully makes as he gets himself out of the pod and rolls himself down the hallway. This to me shows that the creators of this film wanted the audience to pay attention to exactly what Sully was saying. They also wanted you to feel exactly what he was feeling. Here is this guy paralyzed from being who he wants to be in one aspect of his life and being free to be whoever in another. He is torn between two worlds and also two parts of himself. Who is he truly at this point? Is he Jake Sully the crippled veteran or Jake Sully the na'vi? "It's hard to believe its only been three months. I barely remember my old life. I don't know who I am anymore". The video logs are one of my favorite parts of this film. The audience is allowed to feel what Jake Sully is feeling and thinking. As he says this quote I remember feeling so sorry for him. But I also felt like I could somewhat relate to how he was feeling. "I don't know who I am anymore" signifies lost idenity. I know I have lost my identity once or twice. The video logs makes this film seem so much more realistic. It takes a guy from the year 2154 ( as seen in the corner of the picture) and makes him so relatable to current times. I believe this scenes argument is to show that even though there is this crazy technology that allows a human to become a unfamiliar creature (the na'vi) Jake Sully is just human. He has feelings, he is confused, and he is lost. It is a very sad scene in my opinion. Torn between two worlds. If I were him I would be feeling the same way too.
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The way you were talking about "is he a marine or a na'vi" made me think about how similar this scene is to scenes from "drug movies" like Requiem for a Dream and A Scanner Darkly. In these movies the characters usually have a crisis where they don't know which real is real. The drug induced reality starts to seem more real to them than sober life. I think that Jake is also going through this, possibly even more because of his legs and how awesome Pandora is.
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