Dancing with Avatars
Slavoj Zizek über Cameron.

Der zuletzt oft etwas sehr wirre Slavoj Zizek (hier im CARGO Audio-Gespräch) mit einem guten Text wider "Cameron's superficial Hollywood Marxism":

”Avatar's fidelity to the old formula of creating a couple, its full trust in fantasy, and its story of a white man marrying the aboriginal princess and becoming king, make it ideologically a rather conservative, old-fashioned film. Its technical brilliance serves to cover up this basic conservatism. It is easy to discover, beneath the politically correct themes (an honest white guy siding with ecologically sound aborigines against the "military-industrial complex" of the imperialist invaders), an array of brutal racist motifs: a paraplegic outcast from earth is good enough to get the hand of abeautiful local princess, and to help the natives win the decisive battle. The film teaches us that the only choice the aborigines have is to be saved by the human beings or to be destroyed by them. In other words, they can choose either to be the victim of imperialist reality, or to play their allotted role in the white man's fantasy. (Der ganze Text ist hier).

Der Schlussteil ist vielleicht etwas Richtung politische Realität gezwungen; die angesprochenen Vorkommnisse im indischen Bundesstaat Orissa sind aber doch bedenklich (hier der entsprechende Text von Arundhati Roy).

(Via)