Zizek on Avatar

As always, Zizek offers an article which remains impossible to not get frustrated at, but some interesting critique therein as well:




"In a typical Hollywood product, everything, from the fate of the Knights of the Round Table to asteroids hitting the earth, is transposed into an Oedipal narrative"




"The film teaches us that the only choice the aborigines have is to be saved by the human beings or to be destroyed by them. In other words, they can choose either to be the victim of imperialist reality, or to play their allotted role in the white man's fantasy."

A little late to be posting about Avatar, maybe? Maybe it's me, but it already feels like people will be destined to forget this film in a couples years time. I found myself having trouble remembering anything when coming out of the theater save for being visually assaulted for several hours. For me, the reconciliation of violent oppression and exploitation with...violent aggression left me completely sour. My wife, on the other hand, was convinced it was a Ferngully remake, and I guess others on the internet have made the same connection.