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Director: Ted Remerowski, Marrin Canell Rating: NR (Not Rated) Format: DVD
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"Two Critiques: ‘Avatar’ vis-à-vis ‘Cinema Paradiso’

(First of 3 parts)

If there are two seemingly widely diverging objects of critical appraisal, these should be none other than these 2 cinematic masterpieces: one, a digitally-enhanced masterpiece of virtual reality; the other a classic masterpiece of consummate devotion to the cinematic mode of classic realism, an evocation of an era forever gone with the rubble and smoke of a deafening explosion of demolition – the demolition of Time and its treasury of Art, Love, Hope, and Memory, in the pursuit of Progress, Change, and Modernism, the frontiers of which are pushed back with each new update/advance of Technology.

“Avatar” As Critique of Imperialism

What does “Avatar” mean? Passing thru a slum area, I heard a little boy say, “Ano ina ang avatar man?” It seems there’s no getting away from doing a review of the film which is still showing in some theaters in the country, even as its box office take continues to mount in the billions of dollars worldwide.

So what is “Avatar?” Setting aside the obvious superiority of its technical aspects which results in the seamless digital evocation of the life and culture of the Navi, inhabitants of the planet called Pandora by humans, the film is just one more treatise on the imperialism agenda of the Ugly White/Western Man, in the East or other parts of this globe, this time in the unknown territories of outer space. As my teen granddaughter puts it, it is the story of a man sent to destroy a people, falls in love with one of them and ends up saving them. You’ve heard this one before, I’m sure. But why Avatar?

I can’t place when or where the word “avatar” was used in the film. But it refers in the film, to the transformation of a human being into the body and mind of a Navi, the indigenous people by Pandora. “Avatar” comes from the Sanskrit word “avatara”, meaning “descent”, as in coming down from a higher place. The Merriam Western Dictionary/New Edition c. 2005, pp. 248 – 49, gives its meaning as “incarnation, the emb

"Fair Game (2010)
PG_13 104 min - Action | Biography | Drama | Thriller
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Users: 6.5/10 (339 votes) 1 review | Critics: 21 reviews

Plame's status as a CIA agent was revealed by White House officials allegedly out to discredit her husband after he wrote a 2003 New York Times op-ed piece saying that the Bush administration had manipulated intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq. "