I bounced here on Pierre Desjardins opinion expressed in an article in Monde.fr January 27 last.
The author argues nothing less Avatar contains an apology for the war (Title: Re: nothing but a stupid justification for war!): War is just if just cause but in reality both sides have always believed this, we get a justification for war in general ... The premise of the author seems to be that there is no just war, denouncing excess to fall into the opposite. Damage.
This criticism is wrong in my opinion in that the phenomenon at work is not confined to Avatar and did not have the meaning ascribed to it by the critic. Indeed, the problem is not the glorification of war that disinhibition face of evil and not own Avatar, that is the most action movies.
observe them. The spring action film or comedy is ugly: the personification of evil in the character of the villain makes the hero needed the use of violence, let us note, however, enjoys it. Just as the viewer. Far from wanting to watch the triumph of good against evil, the audience wants to enjoy the vice, violence, sadism, power, but without realizing it:) So
action movies they make turn turn in the proper stage robber, good avenger ... and regarding the war good Avatar.
sad fate as the villain: an actor who expresses an evil to the extent of the lot of suffering that awaits to satisfy the audience ... I sometimes take pity on the wicked because his illness is fiction and pretense the expression of an evil sadist more tangible. Obviously
this phenomenon that we find pleasure in doing evil and seek to justify the property does not limit itself to cinema. It is human. It is found especially among the beautiful souls who hunt the dragon in the name of the property but in reality for the sake of burning those whose sacrifices and devotion are all means to gain concessions, print and behaviors hold the power ... Beware of good intentions. Evil is not in others, it is in everyone's heart.
To go further, indicate that neither the flaws of Avatar, pleasant entertainment, nor those action movies can not be summarized line described above. If in Avatar was given a nasty form of an army of a people warlike invaders to justify war and violence in response, he was also given attributes technological, scientific, modern capitalist in a word such that hero renounces its people, culture and even its nature to reach a primitive tribe, traditional, mystical ... and new age .... nervous system merged with nature ... Striking illustration of the double standard incident against reactionary ideas: between inadmissibility and convenience as the one who expresses them is equal or the noble savage. Thus the film
action reflects the prejudices of the time and built a straw man against whom the defect can be expressed with pleasure. it looks like.
The author argues nothing less Avatar contains an apology for the war (Title: Re: nothing but a stupid justification for war!): War is just if just cause but in reality both sides have always believed this, we get a justification for war in general ... The premise of the author seems to be that there is no just war, denouncing excess to fall into the opposite. Damage.
This criticism is wrong in my opinion in that the phenomenon at work is not confined to Avatar and did not have the meaning ascribed to it by the critic. Indeed, the problem is not the glorification of war that disinhibition face of evil and not own Avatar, that is the most action movies.
observe them. The spring action film or comedy is ugly: the personification of evil in the character of the villain makes the hero needed the use of violence, let us note, however, enjoys it. Just as the viewer. Far from wanting to watch the triumph of good against evil, the audience wants to enjoy the vice, violence, sadism, power, but without realizing it:) So
action movies they make turn turn in the proper stage robber, good avenger ... and regarding the war good Avatar.
sad fate as the villain: an actor who expresses an evil to the extent of the lot of suffering that awaits to satisfy the audience ... I sometimes take pity on the wicked because his illness is fiction and pretense the expression of an evil sadist more tangible. Obviously
this phenomenon that we find pleasure in doing evil and seek to justify the property does not limit itself to cinema. It is human. It is found especially among the beautiful souls who hunt the dragon in the name of the property but in reality for the sake of burning those whose sacrifices and devotion are all means to gain concessions, print and behaviors hold the power ... Beware of good intentions. Evil is not in others, it is in everyone's heart.
To go further, indicate that neither the flaws of Avatar, pleasant entertainment, nor those action movies can not be summarized line described above. If in Avatar was given a nasty form of an army of a people warlike invaders to justify war and violence in response, he was also given attributes technological, scientific, modern capitalist in a word such that hero renounces its people, culture and even its nature to reach a primitive tribe, traditional, mystical ... and new age .... nervous system merged with nature ... Striking illustration of the double standard incident against reactionary ideas: between inadmissibility and convenience as the one who expresses them is equal or the noble savage. Thus the film
action reflects the prejudices of the time and built a straw man against whom the defect can be expressed with pleasure. it looks like.
