2009-12--22
Yesterday I watched James Cameron´s new movie Avatar. Despite being a great movie that I really enjoyed it got me thinking. First of all I couldn’t come up with any other movie where the humans were portrait as the antagonists. This in itself was a revelation for me, because in this movie this is clearly the case. Nobody in the movie theater seemed to object to this notion. So this in some way means humanity is not confined to humans alone, because in this movie the humane thing to do was clearly to side with the aliens NOT the humans.
Secondly one quote in the movie struck me as noteworthy. The director of the human operation in Pandora tells the leading scientist that she should come up with the solution for the indigenous population problem, otherwise he will send in the cavalry. His words were: "Bad press is bad, but one thing stock holders like even less than bad press is bad returns at the end of the fiscal year."
This is in my opinion what really captured the spirit of the movie, big business vs. humanity and common reason. The choice should be an easy choice, because the survival and well being of our species (and that of others) should take top priority. But it’s not! Copenhagen’s climate conference clearly showed this once and again. So I ask the question, why is it that every human seems to understand this (which clearly was shown by the audiences acceptance) but in practice it is so hard to accomplish?
//Kuma
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