So some fans are now claiming that watching avatar has led to depression for them:
Despite the $1 billion made in ticket sales over the past three weeks since the film's release, controversy also surrounds its ability to depress the audience.
Internet forums are also filled with fans saying they've become depressed after realising their life doesn't live up to the utopian alien world of Pandora.
CNN reported one fan site received 1,000 posts titled 'Ways to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible'.
Not only that, but that the message of Avatar was inherently racist:
Blogs have flooded the internet, suggesting it has racist undertones relating to the relationship between the Alien tribe and disabled Marine.
A columnist for the New York Times, David Brooks, agrees and has said: "Avatar is a racial fantasy par excellence….
"It rests on the stereotype that white people are rationalist and technocratic while colonial victims are spiritual and athletic.
"It rests on the assumption that non-whites need the White Messiah to lead their crusades. It rests on the assumption that illiteracy is the path to grace.
"It also creates a sort of two-edged cultural imperialism. Natives can either have their history shaped by cruel imperialists or benevolent ones, but either way, they are going to be supporting actors in our journey to self-admiration", he continued.
LinkThe racism angle given more explanation hereLOS ANGELES (AP) -- Near the end of the hit film "Avatar," the villain snarls at the hero, "How does it feel to betray your own race?" Both men are white — although the hero is inhabiting a blue-skinned, 9-foot-tall, long-tailed alien.
Strange as it may seem for a film that pits greedy, immoral humans against noble denizens of a faraway moon, "Avatar" is being criticized by a small but vocal group of people who allege it contains racist themes — the white hero once again saving the primitive natives.
Since the film opened to widespread critical acclaim three weeks ago, hundreds of blog posts, newspaper articles, tweets and YouTube videos have said things such as the film is "a fantasy about race told from the point of view of white people" and that it reinforces "the white Messiah fable."
Like Kevin Costner in "Dances with Wolves" and Tom Cruise in "The Last Samurai" or as far back as Jimmy Stewart in the 1950 Western "Broken Arrow," Sully soon switches sides. He falls in love with the Na'vi princess and leads the bird-riding, bow-and-arrow-shooting aliens to victory over the white men's spaceships and mega-robots.
Adding to the racial dynamic is that the main Na'vi characters are played by actors of color, led by a Dominican, Zoe Saldana, as the princess. The film also is an obvious metaphor for how European settlers in America wiped out the Indians.
Now based on the blogs and snippets I am reading, I can see the whole racism subtext, if not intentional, does exist, not just in this movie, but in quite a few movies.
I stilll don't see where the depression is coming from.
I totally loved this movie, and I am about as Emo as you can get without being a self harmer lol I found this story to be pure escapism. Yes, our planet will never be like Pandora, there is no utopian ideal, but it doesn't take this movie to make me see that, life has driven home that sharp lesson.
What do you think?
Topic: Avatar fans struck with depression amid racist message!