Film: Avatar (Telugu)
Cast: Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Giovanni Ribisi, Stephen Lang and others
Original Music: James Horner
Cinematography by: Mauro Fiore
Editing by: John Refoua, Stephen E. Rivki
Screenplay and directed by: James Cameron
Release date: December 18, 2009
CBFC Rating: U/A
What's it about!
The fictional story takes place in 2154 on the faraway moon of Pandora where indigenous Na'vi race inhabits. A greedy Corporate company is hell bent on extracting a precious substance on Pandora and it hires a group of scientists. Jake, a paraplegic war veteran is also brought into it to infiltrate into Na'vi inhabitants. Jake, in his new avatar, meets Neytiri, a female Na’vi, and befriends her. Romance blossoms between them and he now revolts against the greedy corporate company. The story has undercurrent theme of environmentalism, good vs evil battle.
Analysis
James Cameron does it again. A cinematic visionary Cameron brings a paradigm shift in filmmaking and in science-fiction cinema. 12 years after that wonderful, Titanic, he provides 'wow' experience one more time with his latest visual splendor - Avatar. The film is released in Telugu across the state today (December 18, 2009) along with the English version. AVATAR is testament to the fact that even human beings are capable of 'creating a world of their own (even though, it is virtual) as varied and as beautiful as God did. His imaginative world - Pandora, far distant from Earth in the universe is reflection of bio-diversity with rich flora and fauna, exotic creatures, colorful flies, and dreamlike lush jungle. This very world and its inhabitants called Na'vi are the backbone of the movie.
Those wonderful Computer Generated Graphics are larger than life. Films like these compel us to watch movies only on the silver screen. We bow to you, Cameron.
The film is completely belongs to the one-man army James Cameron who wrote, edited and directed. Although it is a tad lengthy with 2 hours 45 minutes, the film never lets you down thanks to the director's great grip on narration.
Bottom-line!
Go and watch Avatar to the magical experience on silver screen. After Matrix, Avatar has the capability of changing the course of filmmaking in the coming years. Visual feast from master director James Cameron.
Rating: 5/5
Reviewed by JP
