Avatar: The Way of Water

Book/film review- 12

         Avatar: The Way of Water— It messages to connect with flora&fauna and its idea embraces idealism. A child-centric movie allures the audience with their adventure even after owing weak action scenes. 

“The way of water has no beginning and no end. The sea is around you and in you. The sea is your home, before your birth and after your death. Our hearts beat in the womb of the world. Our breath burns in the shadows of the deep. The sea gives and the sea takes. Water connects all things, life to death, darkness to light.”   

**VIDEO GRAB** A scene from the film Avatar: The Way of Water.

          

          The sequel of the original ‘Avatar’ hits the world in its 13th year. James Cameron comes with a marvellous idea with a nuance of environmentalism that shows the indigenous people living peacefully in ‘Pandora’ and ‘sky people’ try to ambush the resourced land. For this, sky people create ‘Avatars’ like the habitants of the native land so that they can feel comfort and access their resources to fight against them.

           It’s been 13 years, it’s not easy to remember who’s who and what’s what in ‘Avatar: The Way of Water.’ Although the sequel is smartly and stylishly written, but the initial half time focuses to build the storyline and to give the details of the characters.

          The sequel starts with Sully family headed by Jake Sully. He was initially a marine and years after he’s decided to retire and take up residence on Pandora where he was sent to colonise. He becomes member of the Navi tribe and marries Neytiri, a habitat of the the Pandora. Both Jake and Neytiri train their children. 

The ambience of the PVR at Chanakyapuri on Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022. It is fondlesome. A great place gives great experience. (Pic- R. Suresh Bhardwaj)

         ‘Kiri’, emotional and sensitive, is one of the family members whose character is fully seen in the film which centres to save her family because it is said, when Sully is in trouble, ”Sullys stick together.”

         Jack efforts to preserve his family, but when he with his family members is forced to flee the forest and takes refuge with the reef people, Cameron shows the eye-catching flora and fauna of the sea. It is the point of attraction when audiences realise the visual fascination into scene. We connect with Kiri when she makes relation with sea creatures and efforts to explore the corals. 

          The film concludes itself with a war between Forest-Reef people and the sky people led by Avatar. The war ends with the defeat of sky people. Children save their family members and their effort and act make the film child-centric. Their adventure admires us. Jake lost his one of the sons. Spider (monkey boy) returns back to Jake after saving his biological father ‘Avatar’, and Jake says: one son for the one son.

Star: **** (4 out of 5)