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Avatar and The Way of Water: Heavy and Bold

Photo of the protagonists from the original Avatar (2009) film. Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoë Saldaña) are a fortress. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios.   Having finished streaming the original Avatar on Disney+ and watching the sequel today, I am a lot mixed on the two films, and it’s not just because they’re both practically three hours. The bad side is that the first film shows hostility to indigenous people with military gold digging for their powerful resources. On a side note, another form of hostility for the 2009 film came towards protagonist Jake Sully, played by Sam Worthington, for his paraplegia and human nature. As for the sequel, it was like Aquaman and Black Panther in showing phobias against people of different races, colored or not. However, the film and its sequel made up for it with beautiful portrayals of Pandora and other worlds, from scintillating lights at night on Pandora to the breathtaking sea world in The Way of Water . And differ...