Avatar (Short film review)

James Cameron’s Avatar is a very insightful film to what the future could be like in 2154. Cameron gives key messages which resonate throughout the film - that war should be resisted that we should take care of mother nature. This links in throughout the film and throughout the Na’vi people we meet in Pandora in which main star Jake Sully - performed by Sam Worthington takes a part of.

We arrive at a military base in Pandora packed with military and futuristic war machines with Sully - a former soldier and permanently in a wheelchair. At this base we find that there is a military mission to mine ‘unobtainium’ an expensive mineral used for energy generation. However this mineral is under a giant Edenic tree which is the spiritual home of the planet's unusual inhabitants. Sully is to take form in an ‘Avatar’ of the Na’vi people, to work with scientists, intrigued by the Na’vi way of life. Sully is originally tasked with secretly spying on the Na’vi people to see if they could be moved without war to get unobtainium. The Na’vi are big, with golden eyes and slender blue bodies. Throughout this incredible, beautiful journey through their culture, Sully is taught the ways of the people by Neytiri, the chief's daughter and is acted incredibly by Zoe Saldana. As an avatar of these people Sully is particularly keen to take risks and learn the ways of Na’vi life especially as he finally has legs which also is a reason for him becoming one of the natives. This film is action packed and full of unique and strange CGI-created creatures, making this world of Pandora even more unique, realistic and exciting. The effects to create all the strange inhabitants and Na’vi people are definitely a must see in this film and really take cinema to the next level.