Avatar: Fire and Ashes

SPOILERS AHEADTW: DEATH, SUICE, VIOLENCELONG ASS POST

I've watched today with my family the anti-colonialist, enviromentalist, iirl-native-apropiator film and tbh I'm still a fan.

Sure, it's a huge ass film where we watch naked, skinny, cat people but hey the animals and plants are cool. The structures are very "native-sci-fi-ish" with unnecesary ropes everywhere. But At least I could see my icon Sigourny Weaver in human form.

Plot-wise is the most uninspired thing I've ever seen. Specially the fight secuences where you just have two characters fighting while another one is either hiding or preparing a weapon to do the miracle/change the mood/end the fight/whatever. And this movie is lengthy, so it gets boring pretty quickly.

Since The Shape of the Water we had a pregnant Navi, and I loved seeing her in every serious moment in the movie. Even in fights, or stressfull scenes. Like, the queen is just there to do her duties (and ofc she gives birth in the middle of the last, big, epic battle while dying) because that fetus since conception knew she was going to endure shit all her life lmao. Oh and Jake definetly needed to have an even bigger family after the death of his oldest son. I mean they have the daughter of the scientist and the son of the militar douche already, like, why not.

Speaking of death, it's interesting how they handled the suicide attempt of the middle brother. First part of the movie was even narrated by him and it shows a lot of how the family deals with the lost of their oldest son, but specially how Jake constatly reminds him of his death and that it is his fault for not following his commands. Wich is, lowkey true, but he's also a teenager in very stressfull and violent scenarios. Like what the fuck did he expect?? Poor guy just decided not to pull the trigger. Like, most decisions about killing somebody else that everyone does in the movie.

Fr just sneak in vodka to the cinema and take a shot every time someone was almost killed or had a knife on their throat. You will need a second bottle right in the middle of the movie.

But tbh it is very comepelling how they portray his depression (Lo'ak is his name, if everyone even cares) because he goes from depressive and dealling with tension with his father because he just can't follow a simple order never in his young life (wich is: stay in position, protect the youngest ones) to directly almost kill himself searching for that whale that holds a "brother" bond with. Tbh it is the most solid and consice character of all the cast so far. Idealist, impulsive, suicidal (bad teenager joke sorry). And it is obvious from the start that he was trying to prove his father (and also save his whale brother) with all of his actions.

Wich leads me to the funniest moment in the entire movie for me, and no, it's not the animals killing humans. When they are trying to save the family from beeing hostages to the bad guys for the 50th time, Jake and Lo'ak separate. At this point they have a stronger father-son bond and have forgave eachother for their behaviours. And what do you think Jake-blue-cheeks says to his traumatized suicidal teenager with a gun, right before splitting? "Don't kill anyone you love"

The gasp I would have gasped if I had any interest for these characters. Like holly shit. Like, damn. Just, amazing. Wich makes things worse because this is 100% irl son/daughter experience. I don't even know if I should aplaud the writters for the realness of that line or punch them for all the damage this poor child has had to endure.

Traumas aside, excellent female characters. They aren't just woman, they are real entities with struggles, differences and motives. I can't fucking believe Avatar 3 passes the Betchdel test. Avatar 3 of all movies, games and shows in this year. I don't want to make this post longer than it is but I'm so happy that the evil fire, bpd, extasis consumer, navi just dissapears at the end of the movie. I can't wait to see Avatar 4 just for her and Kiri (Sigourney Weaver's character). I hope we see more animals and plants too. I regret watching it in 3d because they make backgrounds or objects where they don't want to focus your vision on porpousely unfocused. I legit checked multiple times and once you notice it it's not only annoying, but it makes you look at the characters in forced focus. How does people watching 3D movies enjoy that shit? Idk.

So, uh, yeah, another expensive James Cameron movie. I have some predictions for the next ones (yes there are confirmed to be like 4 or 5 more movies in production). I have a few predictions for those upcoming movies so yeah, it will go in another post, thanks for reading this far!