Avatar leaves viewers depressed.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/11/avatar.movie.blues/

I've never seen the film, so i can't comment, but it seems a wee bit over the top. If anyone is so depressed by this film and seriously wanting to live in that fictional world then they probably had problems before seeing it.

Some examples...

http://naviblue.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=399&p=5656&hilit=depression#p5656
(Possibly a troll)

http://avatar-forums.com/showthread.php?t=43

Thoughts?

 

I still haven't been to see it :( I can understand where they are coming from. I mean, the amount of time I sat and wished I was in the many different worlds that I read about or saw in fiction on TV. Many many dreams spent on that xD With it going 3D and being over 2 and a half hours long people get so drawn into the other world that they would at least be disorientated when it's over and at worst completely lose touch with reality.

It's kinda like what my friend said to me. He goes caving and apparently there is absolutely no smell in caves, the air doesn't really move and there is very little light so no colour. He tells me that coming out of a cave after being in it for hours is amazing. All the colours are brighter, everything smells amazing and you love the feel of the wind. I suppose what these people are experiencing is just some form of sensory overexposure (or whatever the opposite of sensory deprivation is lol)

 

It's like "gamers sickness" where a person plays to many video games and when they stop their perception doesn't match up with what the game has been telling them they should be percieving, so they get sick. It's just withdrawal IMO.

Personally, I haven't seen the movie. It just seems like another movie to me, but now that people are saying that it's brilliant ans stuff, I might go see it. I've seen shots of the places and artist renders and sketches, It looks like a beautiful place, but not something to kill yourself over.

Kinda off topic here, but has anyone heard about the Pope and the Vatican saying that Avatar is "...flirting with the idea that worship of nature can replace religion". They are complaining that it is against the Christian faith, in the way that "God" has been replaced with "Mother Nature".

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100112/ap_en_ot/eu_vatican_avatar

Why is there so much controversy about movies now-a-days?

 

Didn't click any of the links, but I heard about this on The Colbert Report.
Haven't seen the movie myself, but I want to so bad.
Like Nate said, it's similar to gamer's sickness.
I wouldn't mind living in a few FF worlds myself, but I don't and can't, so we just gotta live with it.

The way I see it, God created nature. They're still worshiping God, just in a wrong way

 

While I've seen the movie I can't say I expressed any suicidal or depressing thoughts while watching it. I mean, during like the middle of the movie I can't indeed understand how people thought it was depressing but not in a way that it would make you want to have those particular thoughts. In fact, at the end, I felt rather happy but it is strange. I also loved the scenery in this movie, it was so beautiful and detailed, you felt like you were there, immersed in it. And maybe I feel like I'd want to experience what it was like to live there, but that's it.

 

The world of Pandora is beautiful, but to become depressed because it doesn't exist (as far as we know) is a little disturbing. It was a great movie, but to be this affected by a movie is rather unusual, I think.

 

I would guess almost everyone who saw and enjoyed Avatar would have some amount of longing to live on Pandora. I mean seriously, who wouldn't want to have their own fricking dragon? Not to mention the animation is so spectacularly done it looks almost real.

But to become full-blown depressed after seeing it, you'd have to think that the person's emotions weren't that stable to begin with.

 

I just had a thought. Could it be a symptom of a underlying problem in modern society? I mean we are told that we can be anything we want and do anything we want as long as we put our minds to it. That puts a huge pressure on people (from childhood) to do something amazing with your life whereas in the olden days you aimed to reach 50 lol With this film it is showing people a whole other amazing life and their longing for something so meaningful makes them depressed whether they want to be or not.

 

The depressing parts were the logs made by the main character as a human as he questions his existance and reality.

 

I think this really portrays how intense an experience a cinematic experience can be. Cameron has created a step above the usual film experience, not only in visuals but story-telling.

I admit I felt myself a longing to live a tribal lifestyle in the spectacular world of Pandora with others like myself... for the first 15 minutes after the film and then thought 'Oh well.'

I felt disgust at some of the horrorific actions humans decided to take, I actually felt angry at these fictional characters.
And the Na'vi people, I empathised with in a few ways. How they long for a peaceful co-existence, respect their plant, etc.
I've never felt quite so involved with a film before. But that's all it really is. A film. I loved it, adored it, want to buy it in 3D Blue-ray and want a sequel.

Cameron shouldn't be intimidated by the public's reaction. It shows that he really created something people could completely lose themselves in. And isn't that why we watch films?

 

Honestly, I could see why they would want to. I would want to, given the chance. It's a beautiful place they created, the people are pretty cool, and the flowers and plants are gorgeous.

Sucks that it's not real.

That's why you get over it. If people are gonna commit suicide because of this, then they just already had issues and blamed it on the movie.

 

I wonder if it's because of the way they portray Americans in the movie? Maybe it's a harsh sort of wake-up call?

I dunno. I mean yeah, Pandora was gorgeous, but to get so depressed after seeing the movie is kinda silly to me. I didn't go on Prozac after seeing The Lion King because Mufasa died.

 

Avatar leaves me depressed too, if only because such a bad movie received such overwhelmingly good response (almost as depressing as that Chipmunks movie being a hit). Ya don't see me putting a gun to my head.
Seriously though folks (THANK YOU, THANK YOU, I'LL BE HERE ALL NIGHT), it's obvious these people had issues to begin with, and this movie was either the straw that broke the camel's back, or just an excuse to get some attention before they go kill themselves.

 

I went to see it on Sunday with my family and I could have sat there for a week and watched it. However, and this is the important part, I did feel depressed when I got home D: Although, that could just be my hypochondria acting up just because I had heard that other people had got depressed, or because my dad had pissed me off >_>

 

Seriously.. I don't know what all this fuss is about.

The movie was pretty, but it was just Pocahontas with blue alienlizardcatthings..

But seriously.. I don't care how amazing the graphics were.. the movie was quite unoriginal.. It wasn't unenjoyable, but it was nothing amazing.. and certainly nothing to kill yourself over.

Those people really need to seek professional help...

 

As everyone is saying, similar to gamersickness. I've had that quite a few times. After playing games like Kingdom Hearts, for example, I felt like the simplicity associated with it was so true to everything. I would ask myself, "Why can't everything just be this way?" It's funny how sometimes a game or movie can become your religion if you allow it to take over your senses. This movie does that without you really realizing it due to the 3D + 2 and 1/2 hours of film. XD whoa.

I've experienced the side effects associated with the movie in so many other media (not suicidal, but the general feeling) it would be interesting to see how I feel about this movie. I've only felt the sickness from a movie once or twice, both times when I was little.

Does anyone know how old these individuals are who are having the depression? D:

 

Not off of the top of my head I don't. I'd imagine they were fairly young; not teens, but certainly not the middle age bump. I'd have to look.