Thursday, December 24, 2009

AVATAR....2012

The latest release of these two films have really aroused keen interest in the movie goers. These two films, made on two different subjects are rocking the Indian crowd and the people are happy to see these two movies, forget they cause big hole in the pocket, as the tickets are very high in multiplexes besides if you chose to see it 3D, the cost even goes up.

Well, the point is, two different movies are telling us the message which is similar in nature. 2012 depicts the complete devastation of the Planet Earth, and perhaps they are concentrating more on the destruction caused by the global warming and related issues, holding the man responsible for the same. It very nicely shows how the Earth gets destroyed and everything which is happening is happening but not only due to what man has been doing to this earth.

The film has its weird solution. The rich and powerful on this Earth ditch billions of people on this Earth, who were not given chance to save themselves, as the rich nations' government do not inform its people of impending danger. Instead they built few ships in Chinese workshops and try to save the rich & powerful of this earth.

However the magnitude at which this catastrophes takes place could even put a question mark on the secret vessel project also. However Hollywood film proves its mentality and utter commercialization of the events, and then mixing little emotions into it. But then if we give a second thought to this, we realize that the people, had they been informed about the heating up of the Earth's inner space, people might have just panicked and could have had been a mayhem. But then also the question arise, was there enough done to save other lives, except those who were rich, famous and powerful?

The answer is no!

There was not enough done and thought and the solution which the film shows, could portray as a one who saved life and mankind on the planet Earth, by making and saving people with the help of THE SHIP. Why were no such more ships were made to save more people?

Second film AVATAR, is about the greed of the humans which makes them land on a distant planet called PANDORA. Here they wish to destroy the natives for the stone which they want to sell at international market for millions per kilogram. For that they go to the extent of destroying the civilized networked natives with helicopter gunships and cargo ships converted into bombers. For their own greed they destroy a belief those native had in the mother nature.

Both these films prove that the Hollywood perhaps is trying to show the mirror to the people of this world about the human nature. The time we are passing through is one of the most difficult one. The nature is infuriated by the reckless use of its resources by the human being.

The best scene in the film AVATAR was, when the hero first time raises his voice against the occupying force's CEO, who asks hero to explain to the natives of Pandora palnet to vacate the tree on which they lived as the occupying forces want the costly stone beneath the giant tree. Hero then tries to tell them that they will not and can not be explained or persuaded to shift from that tree to some other place for any reason. They can not be PURCHASED with money as they have no value for money. That particualr scene explains eveything. The natives have everything they want and eveything which keep them alive & happy. So we cannot allure them with physical things.

In one such scene, it proves that the wealth created on the basis of money and consumption, is useless and needs to be understood before we actually ponder over the climatic crisis, we are are facing at the moment.

Both the films are a "MUST WATCH" for all of us who think. Those who think, raise question. We must raise question as where we are going and what are our goal. Is buying a good branded watch or anything which is luxerious and costly, the only thing we want in our lives? What next after that! Few more watches, perfumes and shoes and cloths and so on & so forth. But do we all need that?

Such questions when come to mind we think for a while, we agree with the point that what we are doing is indirectly or dierectly hurting the nature's cycle. We are using and consuming. We are concerned with our own self and not anybody else, not even our future generation!

One of my friend after watching 2012 told me that if what the film is showing really happens one day, he was happy to have no children in his life. He even did not wish to become parent any more, perhaps he would go for adoption of child but not the otherwise. We in Mumbai, have become little more cautious after we were sure of water cuts being applied by the local municipal authority. But have we started saving water on the individual basis ? The answer is still no!

We have become so rackless and careless that we feel that what happens with me acting to save the palnet earth? The question i right, but it will make sense that everybody on this earth will start thinking in that way. If you are wise and clever enough, you would heed to the signals, these two movies provide. Both the movies tell us, what we are doing and what we are running after is useless and meaningless. The generation of wealth in physical terms is giving us only traumatized life. It is not giving us peace of mind. First we loose peace of mind for money and once we earn them, we starte searching for it with the money, which we are unlikely to get, but then why don't we have it when we had it initially?

We, humans have changed the meaning of prosperity. We have made the personal possession of consumables as the economic prosperity. The economic prosperity means climatic decay. Take the example of the figures which were released by the bike manufacturers, which portrays increased sale of bike in India. The Finance Minister or for that any reason any economist of the country would feel secured. As this shows economic recovery by the Indian Economy. It will create jobs. Money will flow into the hands of people as the rising demands will give boost to production cycles. Rising production will create jobs. people of this country wlill prosper.

But that's perhaps not the bench mark for the development.

These bikes once sold, will mess up the roads. They will add up to already clogged roads . Climatic conditions will worsen further. We see the melting ice on Himalays and other Arctic regions, but will never postpone buying of the bike. The biggest problem is that the current bench mark for developments are so weird that they go totally against the nature. The rising prosperity will bring rising heat on the earth and subsequent mass-annihilation on the planet earth.

The film 2012, depicts consequences of what humans have done to the lovely & beautiful planet earth and film AVATAR, points towards the destructive & greedy nature & minds of the humans, and how far they can go to fulfill their selfish desire. The climatic international meet will never succeed. No country wish to give up the economic benefits, they could enjoy.

The China, USA, Europe and Russia and to an extent India may be few of the most polluting countries of the globe, but they are so powerful that they can neither be challenged nor be persuaded to give up some of their industries to reduce pollution. Because of the faulty and misinterpreted meaning of economic development & prosperity, they could loose the edge they have on their competitors. Mind you, USA is the biggest culprit, but no country in the world has capacity or capability to openly tell the USA that first see the mirror and then come to any climatic meet anywhere in the world. They are the biggest consumers on the planet earth. The path they have chosen for the prosperity is followed by all the countries of the world. But when the situation worsens, USA will never accpet its fault and will actually use all the tactics under the agies of Climate Damage Control Initiative, in which all other world countries would loose the economic edge they achieved with the path shown by the USA & its allies. Not even India or China for that reason.

It will then become one of the most difficult time for the people of this earth. The hope lies in the powerful nations doing their bit to put the global warming under control at the same time they are made willing to spend their money on those poor countries, who due to lack of technology are still using poor methods of production of goods.

Actually the meaning of prosperity needs to be changed after giving a thought to the present state of affairs of earth's climatic condition.

It is a very likely scenario, one day, several spaceships will leave this planet earth to so other distant planet and only rich, famous and people with technical know how will only be allowed on the spaceship and remaining population will be left to die a miserable life on this planet earth.

Perhaps 50 years from now.........this may be reality.

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