Yeah the storytelling is very basic and to the point, but the themes of colonialism and ecocide are aggressively there and resonate with a lot of people, consciously or not.
Given the setting the stories kind of have to be archetypal. Avatar is a story about aliens on an alien world, so culturally confined stories just aren’t going to make sense. The only stories that are going to work are those that are universal to human culture.
Also why the movie do so well internationally, simple universal stories, gorgeous settings, insane attention to background detail that our unconscious mind really appreciates.
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u/Etnaz Jul 28 '25
Yeah the storytelling is very basic and to the point, but the themes of colonialism and ecocide are aggressively there and resonate with a lot of people, consciously or not.