Fighting back

Avatar was one of the greatest movies I have seen in my life and I found almost every scene in avatar impressive and romantic. The scene I loved the best though was when Jake and his friends decided to team up with Navi and fight against humans, their own species. I thought this was a really tough decision for them because the possibility to win against the human army was very low and even if they won, they would not be sure about what their future was going to be. Therefore, when I saw Jake helping Navi, I cheered for him; I was with Navi’s position because it seemed too hard.

This scene was very special to me because I strongly felt the bond of love between Jake and Neytiri and the bond under justice between Jake, his friends, and Navi’s. The fact that two different species could work together to fight against a stronger opponent made me exciting as well. I found out from this movie that as long as there is a common goal, different kind of people would be willing to cooperate and try to achieve it. Human in this movie was kind of described as injustice since they were trying to invade an innocent nation, Navi. So their common goal here was to fight back human armies. In the end, when the arrow Neytiri shot hit Colonel, I shouted out ”yeaaaaaaaaah!!” because I was so happy that the justice side I believed in won the war.

However, at the same time, there were a couple of things about this scene that I was not comfortable with. First, the betrayal of Jake made me feel exciting but simultaneously it made me think that Jake is a selfish guy. Since Jake had once been helped by the human army with his leg, I thought Jake should had been thanking human army for that; if the army didn’t offer him an avatar, he wouldn’t even be able to walk. Therefore, in my opinion, Jake was a little selfish because he got what he desired and protected what he loved. Moreover, this characteristic, I thought, clearly showed the difference between Navi and humans. Navi just wanted to protect their environment while humans attacked them for their own sake. Human has been always selfish and Jake was not special. (Of course me either.) So I felt that no matter what he did, Jake was human after all.