AV-A-TAR.

saturday night, my mom and i found ourselves in the staunton mall's regal cinemas watching avatar. a week earlier, i had been awoken at 1:30 in the morning by my brother, peter with a text message that read: "Avatar... hands down best movie ever emm! Tell me when you see it. Av-A-Tar!" I called Peter the next day to inquire as to why I should dish out the dough to see this film. He assured me that the film had many subliminal messages that I would agree with, that the digital effects were superb, and that I just needed to see this movie, so..

I would have to say overall, this movie get's a A from me. Not an A+ movie, or an F, but a solid A. The digital effects were fantastic, so realistic, and yet at the same time like something from another world. The storyline was genius, although I thought parts of it were very predictable(peter disagreed).

Some notable lines from the movie that I jotted down as I was watching it are:

• " Our only security is pre-emptive attack."
• "We will combat terror with terror."

How many times were the two above messages relayed through President Bush regarding his intentions for the Middle East in the last 5 years? It's rather incredible. Something else that is incredible is how President Obama is throwing out these same words from his mouth, and a lot lately at that. I applaud director James Cameron(if his name rings a bell, he also directed the box office hit, "Titanic") for drawing such clear parallels in the movie with the ridiculous things that we ourselves have witnessed. I only hope that movie goers don't passively watch this film, but instead see the parallels, in turn think about what we have been subjected to do, and try to find out how to not allow it to happen anymore.

• "Hey Sully, how does it feel to betray your own race?" This line really caught my attention. To counteract the false belief that we owe our loyalty as humans to the people of our country, there is the belief that we are all men, and we all have value, therefore every war is unjust. Here's a quote to back that up: "All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the country he was born."- Francois Felenon, French bishop and mystic.

Anywho, here's a link for the Avatar trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9ceBgWV8io

Hope you're well.