The second part of the ecological epic of the Canadian filmmaker, always served by his magnificent decorations, does not have the same dramaturgical efficiency.
by Jacques Mandelbaum
James Cameron is a man of challenge. Pioneer of synthetic images, author of planetary tid up (Terminator, Titanic, etc.), he broke his own records in 2009 with Avatar, which generates three billion in revenues and monopolized the first place in the world box office since then. A trilogy was announced, here is the second part, even though the film’s press kit now evokes the birth of a possible saga: “A series of subsequent films, all very ambitious, and anchored around a central theme, family “. Or a beautiful cream pie.
Let us summarize, in any event, the ins and outs of the original work, the few people who have seen it will want to excuse us. In 2154 AD, a militaro-scientific mission landed on the Pandora planet, in the Alpha Centauri A system, discovering the deposit of a rare ore likely to solve the serious energy problems of the Earth.
Pandora is however inhabited by a humanoid species, the NA’VI, whose clan has taken up residence at the very place of this gigantic deposit. These people maintain a deep ecological and spiritual relationship to their land and nature. Its members, in accordance with the lush and untouched splendor around them, are very large, strong, of a beautiful blue, lead the controllers of ferocious prehistoric birds, and are themselves endowed with a tail.
On the Terrans’ side, two schools are quite quickly emerging in the face of the need to move them. That of scientists who, with a view to entering the reasons for the other and fluidifying exchanges, create the “avatar” program, giving life to creatures proceeding with a genetic recombination between humans and NA’VI. The soldiers advocate total eradication, in good and due form.
Jake Sully, ex-paraplegic marine, is part of the first program, reconquer a second youth thanks to his avatar, and soon falls in love with the beautiful princess Neytiri, daughter of the king of the recalcitrant tribe, before rallying to his cause. This leads him to have to eliminate the head of the second option, Colonel Quaritch, brilliant exemplary of American industrial-military imperialism which sacrifices to his views almost everything that lives and does not think like him.
a mixed assessment
We were there from this cosmic western. Ten years later, the military-industrial complex in turn developed an avatar of Colonel Quarritch, which, surrounded by a formidable firepower, shouts revenge and is explicitly commissioned to neutralize the Sully problem. The latter, now at the head of a large family, understanding that he is now the main target of the colonists, leaves the forest and finds refuge with his own in an archipelago, where he asks asylum from another Na ‘clan’ VI, proud people of the sea who draws, for this very reason, towards green. But the armada of the Quaritch clone is progressing inexorably in their direction.
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