Many viewers claim to experience depression and separation anxiety after viewing James Cameron’s blockbuster Avatar. The movie has created more than $1.4 billion in worldwide box office sales and is on its way of becoming the highest growing film of all time. The storyline is set in the future when the Earth’s resources have been pillaged by the human race. The earth then sends its military force to the planet Pandora in searching for rare mineral unobtainium, which is inhabited by the planet’s natives called Na’vi. The world of Pandora is portrayed as a beautiful and glowing utopian world compared to the earth. After seeing the film, many viewers expressed feelings of disgust with the human race and disengagement with reality, which psychiatrists diagnose as separation anxiety.
It is phenomenal how a movie could create such emotional after-effect among today’s viewers. Cameron should be proud that the movie has impacted viewers’ psychological emotions on a personal level. Our society has shifted itself from focusing on “mass” effect to personalization and individualism, yet it seems that we have become too fragile to handle movies like Avatar that creates an utopian image and put our real world in contrast.
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