Reaction to Washington Post

Reaction to Washington Post

            I agree and disagree with many on the statements said in this article. Yes, Avatar is a very political movie based on Native American culture and the white man being the ultimate hero, but I believe that many people are looking too hard into the movie and trying to find something to react about. My reactions to this paper are looked at in many ways and with an open mind to understand why the people quoted who were quoted in this article where so closed minded. In many Native American myths the white man invades the Native Americans land and in the end takes it over, but a lot of the time the Native Americans didn’t even fight for their land.

Within article a the following was said, “Annalee Newitz, writing last week on her science blog io9, criticized "Avatar" for depicting yet another white man as a hero in the liberation struggles of oppressed people of color” (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/22/AR2009122203276.html). I agree that the white man was a hero in this movie but I disagree that colored people specifically have to be black. Most people want to automatically assume that the oppressed people in a movie resemble black people, when in actuality there are many other races that are oppressed than just the blacks.

Newitz stated, "Speaking as a white person . . . I'd like to watch some movies about people of color . . . from the perspective of that group, without injecting a random white . . . character to explain everything to me"(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/22/AR2009122203276.html), this quote is a very biased opinion and Newitz is not looking at both sides of the white man and colored people. I disagree with Newitz statement because I believe that it is important to see a movie with both a white man and colored man’s point of view, which Avatar did. Jake Sully played a very important role in Avatar and is not a, “random white…character” (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/22/AR2009122203276.html), which explains everything according to Newitz. Jake is a white man who was secretly trying to make his way to the top of the chain in Pandora and on his way to do so he realized that he liked being a colored man and knew that the army was wrong with wanting to destroy their land for unuptanium that’s worth a kilo on earth.

Avatar was very political in many ways. It brought up many topics such as the white man versus the colored man and it is used to compare how other countries forced the Native Americans out of their homes just to gain more land and resources. Although many people in this article only looked at the bad point of view of the white man there are many other sides to be looked at.