Avatar

I hated the trailer when I saw it this summer.

Yes, some of it was cliche (I guess a lot of it? Imperialism, love, bad guys, flying) but the way it was presented was just mind-blowing.

Mind. Blowing.

It was absolutely breathtaking and I'm still working through how I actually feel about the film. It's that glowing feeling you have when you have a crush on someone, except in this case the someone is the feeling of escapism and faith. I'm in love.

Georgina, don't make fun of me if you go see this movie and you don't like it as much as me. I am the one, after all, who made avatars on Second Life for her machinima class.

Ahhhh it was genius! The fact that it was digitally made is completely consistent with the fantasy of digital avatars--Pandora is simultaneously reality and imagined, and for someone with an incredibly impressionable mind like me, I am completely dazzled by its ability to rest as a real place in my imagination. I can't get my thoughts out clearly, but I just want to say that Cameron is a master of making audiences emote.

Oh, and the Sigourney Weaver part was perfect. She basically had to be in this film as the culmination (?) of her career in sci-fi with the director.

Ok I'm going to go see it again like 5 times before I go back to Hanover, which is basically the opposite of Pandora. Ughhhhhhhh I am writing like a 4th grader right now. Signing off,

Fay