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01-11-2010, 11:02 AM #1
Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues
Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues
James Cameron's completely immersive spectacle "Avatar" may have been a little too real for some fans who say they have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film because they long to enjoy the beauty of the alien world Pandora.
On the fan forum site "Avatar Forums," a topic thread entitled "Ways to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible," has received more than 1,000 posts from people experiencing depression and fans trying to help them cope. The topic became so popular last month that forum administrator Philippe Baghdassarian had to create a second thread so people could continue to post their confused feelings about the movie...
..."Ever since I went to see Avatar I have been depressed. Watching the wonderful world of Pandora and all the Na'vi made me want to be one of them. I can't stop thinking about all the things that happened in the film and all of the tears and shivers I got from it," Mike posted. "I even contemplate suicide thinking that if I do it I will be rebirthed in a world similar to Pandora and the everything is the same as in 'Avatar.' "
Other fans have expressed feelings of disgust with the human race and disengagement with reality...
..."When I woke up this morning after watching Avatar for the first time yesterday, the world seemed ... gray. It was like my whole life, everything I've done and worked for, lost its meaning," Hill wrote on the forum. "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."
Reached via e-mail in Sweden where he is studying game design, Hill, 17, explained that his feelings of despair made him desperately want to escape reality.
"One can say my depression was twofold: I was depressed because I really wanted to live in Pandora, which seemed like such a perfect place, but I was also depressed and disgusted with the sight of our world, what we have done to Earth. I so much wanted to escape reality," Hill said.
Well it looks like Cameron got his intended consequences...people disgusted with the state of the world and mad at corporations.
But seriously people, contemplating suicide because Earth isn't like Pandora? Get a life!!! This falls along the same lines of people who think they're vampires or witches after watching Twilight or Harry Potter. Uberlame.
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01-11-2010, 11:13 AM #2
I'm going to see it today, hopefully this isnt my last post
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01-11-2010, 11:17 AM #3
Good luck!
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01-11-2010, 11:29 AM #4
Yeah, good luck. Apparently you'll need it. Although I would like to think the people here are a bit more stable than humanity in general.
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01-11-2010, 11:30 AM #5
.... Uberlame??? Come on Maaaaaaaan!!!
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01-11-2010, 11:34 AM #6
.... Uberlame??? Come on Maaaaaaaan!!!
What?
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01-11-2010, 11:43 AM #7
lol ... just reminds me of that game SSX Tricky ....
UUUUUBER TRICKS!!!!
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01-11-2010, 12:12 PM #8
I've never played that game...and I can't be held responsible for how others use my catch phrases.
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01-11-2010, 02:23 PM #9
What it wrong with people these days?
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01-11-2010, 02:32 PM #10
It's Tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that's right on time
It's Tricky...it's Tricky (Tricky) Tricky (Tricky)
It's Tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that's right on time
It's Tricky...Tr-tr-tr-tricky (Tricky) Trrrrrrrrrrricky
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Originally Posted by dherm360 
