Avatar The Movie 3D: Distinguished, Deep, Delightful

The first time I saw movie in IMAX 3D. I didn’t expect something extraordinary prior to watch this movie. I just thought, many people said this movie is good, especially the 3D effect. But I don’t easily judge from what people say, particularly when the people saying it personally not known to me to make a credible opinion.

So I just headed out to Ximending with some friends (we booked the ticket earlier, considering that the theater would be crowded). And indeed it was. The 300-seats room was full. We got a goggle for watching, and let the movie begun!

Okay, even from the early opening (the 20th Century Fox opening), I’ve already liked it. Yeah, the 3D looked soooo real. This was a bit silly of me anyway. Move along, Citra. Let’s discuss the whole story.

Pretty unusual since I didn’t do any search of what this movie was all about. I wanted to stay ‘blind’. Firstly, in the beginning of the movie, I didn’t have any idea of the story. I just couldn’t make a quick analysis. The story was not chronologically pictured, and I lost orientation for a moment. Later on, finally I could catch the plot.

Not a new matter. About how everything is connected and affect each other. Or I like to say it this way: so butterfly effect. No, I am not referring to the movie with same title, I’d rather correlate Avatar with chaos order theory. Feeling new? I encountered this theory back in high school, while finishing my written report for graduation. Every single tiny change can induce a huge impact, even when the distance is called far. Familiar with this question: can a butterfly flapping it wings in Brazil cause a tornado in Texas? More or less that’s the principle of Avatar movie’s story (again, I am saying, don’t take it as something final).

I like this matter, anyway. I do believe that, and Cameron brought the concept into a single movie with amazing visualization. I am very visual, yes. I like to see, observe, take picture. I saw colors in Avatar the movie. And I soooo love it. Lots of purples. I took a wild guess that one of the editors loves purple. LOL. And what I mean colors, is not just colors like black or purple (still, I am so subjective on this one), it’s the characters and scenes. Combination between metal-circumstances (military and those robots) and the very natural Na’vi’s world was perfect. Dualism, I may say, but not in the strict black-and-white area. People with so-dumb-hard brain-headed personality versus invalid with rebel side, and scientist with ‘heart’, pretty cool.

And, Avatar is noetic. Ever heard of that kind of science? Read the latest Dan Brown’s novel. Simply, noetic science points to this: our thought has a mass. We can project our thoughts into something -say the ice formation- and later we can see that the ice can be formed as our will. Sounds like The Secret. Whatever. Avatar bring the concept into real picture, how we can powerfully use our mind to control almost everything. In a good way, I hope.

And creating the Na’vi language part! Oh my gosh, it is awesome. So the language is not just some blurrpp-unclear, but really structured (sure it is, a linguistic professor created it!). Loooove it (just as I love Elf language — I am a LOTR movie fan).

Those are the reasons I say this movie is distinguished and deep. Delightful? Yes, I do love the 3D experience! Very very very real, I felt it that way. Even I moved my head aside when a grenade was thrown out. Fantastic!

And did I find some critics? It was just that I watched this movie in Taiwan, and when there was Na’vi language being spoken, the translation was Chinese!!! Too bad I cannot understand Chinese character at all. Sigh.

Okay, you should watch it. 3D. Waiting for your saying. See ya!