The Perfect World

From: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Lifestyle/Story/STIStory_477251.html

Avatar is causing depression

LOS ANGELES - THE perfection of an idyllic planet populated by perfect blue aliens at one with nature and each other from the hugely successful movie Avatar, is causing ordinary humans to become depressed, reported entertainment media on Thursday.

The world created by director James Cameron is so perfect that entire support groups have sprung up to help fans cope with the fact that it doesn't exist.

According to an article in The Daily Telegraph, fans of the film have inundated dedicated websites with their confused and depressed postings, setting up discussion threads like 'Ways to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible', which already has more than 1,000 posts.

In another forum a user wrote: 'When I woke up this morning after watching Avatar for the first time yesterday, the world seemed grey. It just seems so meaningless. I still don't really see any reason to keep doing things at all. I live in a dying world.' Other fans are even more affected by the situation, reported The Daily Telegraph, with one posting: 'I even contemplate suicide thinking that if I do it I will be rebirthed in a world similar to Pandora.'

Another report in The Daily Mail newspaper said that the detailed visual realism could be leading viewers to become particularly attached to the idea of the world.

Dr Stephan Quentzel, psychiatrist and Medical Director for the Louis Armstrong Centre for Music and Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Centre in New York told CNN: 'Virtual life is not real life and it never will be, but this is the pinnacle of what we can build in a virtual presentation so far. It has taken the best of our technology to create this virtual world and real life will never be as utopian as it seems onscreen. It makes real life seem more imperfect.'


Is Pandora really so perfect? If you're a Navi, you'll live in fear of the invading humans (or the gigantic beasts) you know...haha.

I agree that the world of Pandora is really magnificent, and would like to visit there if possible, as a mere tourist though. As a native? Probably nope...since the technology infrastructure is not very advanced hahaaa. Ok I admit I'm too technologically dependent.

By the way it looks like the Navi language is pretty developed. It even has its own vocabulary lists, phonology and grammar rules! Take a look here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na%27vi_language