Journal

The other day I went to see the movie Avatar with my family. It was really a big hit that after seeing the movie, I can still remember the shock and warmth feeling inside my heart. The movie is mainly about the human beings try to colonize the Na'vi people on the distant planet, Pandora. Human invade the Pandora because there are countless precious elements, which represents the enormous coming benefits in the future, on the planet.

There are two groups of people, the scholars and researchers, and the military soldiers in the movie, struggling for their beliefs. The leader of the scholars and researchers is Dr. Grace Augustine. She is the one who strongly opposes to use violence force on the Na'vi people. She says Na'vi have their own way to co-living with the nature and it is the human being should learn their living style. The group of researchers develops a way to put human mind into Na'vi body so that they can try to emerge into the Na'vi people's daily life.

However, the soldiers are not willing to wait for the scholars to get to know the Na'vi in such a slow pace. They think the Na'vi are rude and uncivilized people that the only way to get rid of them is use military force to make them obey.

Under such situation, the war between human and Na’vi begins. With the modern military technology, human overwhelms the Na’vi and torn down their home, the huge tree with various living creatures and the holy wisdom of Na’vi. Sorrow, fear, anger submerge all the Na’vi people. With the help of the leading actor, the Na’vi gathers all the other tribes on Pandora. Together they are united, and they use their bows and arrows defeat the modern military technology.

It is such a nice movie that it contains the important elements of a movie, such as love, adventure, struggles between believes and so on. However, I think the real message behind the movie is that we should learn a lesson from the story and start to learn the environment- friendly ways of living from the aborigines. Start from the industrial revolution, people have developed ways to produce products more efficiently and at the same time have been polluting our earth for decades. And today, we are now receiving the side-effects from our efficiency and convenience from the technology. Green house effect, water pollution, air pollution, droughts, floods are happening all the time. All these climate changes are not natural; they’re all come from us. There have been countless environmental groups calling for people to face the reality that we are encountering serious crisis of living but people are still not really aware of it. I’m really worry that the plot in Avatar might really take place one day if we continuously ignore the environmental problem and choose not to take an immediate act on it.