AVATAR & DEPRESSION

Let's take a moment to imagine why some viewers are reporting disorientation, sadness & depression after viewing the film.

Haven't we lost the innocence that comes with hoping for an idealistic or even Utopian society/culture? Especially folks after the horror that was 2009. We were ALREADY depressed from the ugliness, the greed, the breech of the cultural code(s) about ethics and altruism.

People seem beyond hope, yes? At the end of their ropes. Plagued with self-doubt. Battered by a loss of civility. Crushed by financial burden.

So after the Avatar experience what might one be expected to feel that is socially acceptable? How can something so subjective as a response to a film have a paradigm, a limit, a correctness?

Through any number of complex social failures, we have nothing but the shit in our laps to contemplate and a vague (perhaps embarrassing), tiny flame of desire and determination that things will get better.

If a movie can do something beyond that and nothing else can, how can we shut down that option? Why should we? And if people are depressed post-viewing, perhaps that is because there is probably a seed of awareness brewing that the way we have been living in this culture is without merit and has killed off the better nature of our angels. And that awareness will help us to move in a very different, wiser direction ultimately. Which is a very good thing.