Avatar Wave
It seems you could hear conversation starting like this everywhere in London recently—’have you watched Avatar?’ Which actually sounds quite sickly these days. Different people enjoy it in different ways. My colleague who is a 22 year-old straight minded graphic designer guy just nods his head with the technology used within film and the eye-ball impact. He thought the story line is rubbish. While rest of us—above 25 year-old—are thinking ‘the message’.
True, if you say every decade carries out a main message like hippies from the 70s, global warming is definitely the main message for this new decade. Dame Vivienne Westwood urged people by inviting herself to Friday Night with Jonathan Ross show in 2009, that even we are stopping all polluting and all other bad things for environment, it would still take our planet earth to heal itself to its best condition for another 200 something years long. The number is shocking! And this was how I felt while watching Avatar.
Back to the film, I agree that story line is simple. It could be a futuristic story version of how European killed native Americans… and how majority of Chinese people are also linking their own feelings with the local government and property developer…
While the film credit was finally rolling up the screen, the girl sitting next to us sneered ‘that was a rubbish’. My friend snapped her back with ’so why did you sit through the entire film then? trying to get your money worthy?!’. The silly girl couldn’t say anything. That hurts me…people like that…the careless people… …
It seems that Avatar has not only created the wave on big screen, but also in fashion world. High summer 2010 will be seen with many aquatic / sport-inspired items around in UK highstreet.
Even cosmetic brand Avon has launched a new signature fragrance.
I hope the Avatar Wave will not be just a ’splash of water’, but really an impact into people’s heart, whether from fashion, from economy, from people to people, from anything.
