This was a beautiful movie. Attempts to characterize it as a retelling of white imperialism are just cheap political hits. The movie uses popular myth about the noble savage to good effect. Let’s face it, the people mining that planet for “unobtanium” were mostly just a-holes. Anyone want to seriously maintain that Cortez and the rest of the conquistadores were Christians trying to bring the light of Jesus to the ignorant savages? This was a classic good guys fighting against the bad guys. So what that most of the bad guys were humans? After all, right against wrong should prevail no matter the species.
You know what is funny about your post? Your first sentence says "Attempts to characterize it as a retelling of white imperialism are just cheap political hits." And then you go on to describe the movie which sounds like the perfect cliche of white imperialism. I suspect the only thing missing was the armband swastikas (which is probably why you missed the imperialism angle.) .
Thanks for your post. I found it very humorous.
“This was a beautiful movie. Attempts to characterize it as a retelling of white imperialism are just cheap political hits. The movie uses popular myth about the noble savage to good effect. Let’s face it, the people mining that planet for “unobtanium” were mostly just a-holes. Anyone want to seriously maintain that Cortez and the rest of the conquistadores were Christians trying to bring the light of Jesus to the ignorant savages? This was a classic good guys fighting against the bad guys. So what that most of the bad guys were humans? After all, right against wrong should prevail no matter the species.”
Thank you. Everybody else I guess is content bashing something without actually going to watch it because someone else screamed “LIBERALS!”. I watched the movie expecting all this talk to be true and was delighted to discover the complete opposite.