The latest film by James Cameron , "Avatar", has had rave reviews and has been panned. So it goes with films. Some say it is the weired work of an ecstasy-ladened has-been looking to, yet again, bash the U.S., her military and her governmental format. Others have declared it a monumental shift in the way movies will be produced from now on (as if special effects are new to film, but I digress). Still others are taking their attachment to this fiction to another level.
In this article http://edition.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/11/avatar.movie.blues/index.html the author sited examples of people who leave the theater so enthralled with the beauty of the fictitious planet Pandora (any relation to the famous box is most likely intentional) that they state on a blog that they have considered suicide in order to take themselves to a place like Pandora so they can become the planet's inhabitants. As the kids tweet "LOL"! That was my initial reaction.
Is this society in such a sad state of affairs that computer-generated beings from a fictitious planet in a fictitious future cause lonely, depressed human beings to assume by ending their real lives that, because they simply will it to be, they will become these fictitious beings? Culling of the herd, I guess.
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