Dissonance

I shall NEVER access my results via SMS in future, not even when the NUS site crashes and the ISIS site is a dick; I almost had severe epilepsy on the MRT. Judgment day sure was cruel, as it always was. Remember the challenge I had laid down for myself at the start of the semester? Well, I didn't manage to achieve that and, despite having done better just so ever slightly, was sorely disappointed by the modules I had utmost confidence in. Well, isn't that always the case every semester? That all the hard work seldom reap fruitful results? That that one step forwards is always too small, too insignificant?

Argh. Forget results. Nothing numbs post-results blues like a mind-blowing movie, and AVATAR happened to do the job this time round. And it didn't fail me, finally, after sieving through reviews and evaluating the watch-worthiness of the film.


Would you, if given a chance, to live life in a whole new world and do things you've never even dreamed about? But what if everything's suddenly not yours when you wake up, as though from a dream you never want to leave? So are we all craving for such attempts to live, as an avatar, to the outside world we feel alien to, for the means of blending in and surviving?

Apart from this, AVATAR had more than just one thought-provoking statement to holler to the world. In this shrinking world, are we fighting other living things, just because they're different from us and they have things we wish to take possession of? Are we judging people simply by the tongue they speak or the colour of their skin? Why are we so indifferent even when a pinch of humanity appears to haunt us? I sat through the entire 161 minutes, full of questions, not for the movie but for the real world. I'm just so glad that James Cameron managed so many nuances and agendas in this movie, because it's, after all, 15 years of hard work and sweat. It deserves 4.8, penalised so slightly for the final fighting scene and the slightly Jurassic Park feel. Verdict: it's a movie not to be missed.

Edited 29/12/2009: An edited version of this (thanks to the 1000-char limit) has been submitted by me under the username [ohjulie] to inSing.com under the AVATAR movie review! Click here to read it!