Sunday, December 27, 2009

Avatar

Saw Avataar. Loved it. But what I kept thinking about as I left the hall was the enthusiasm with which the audience were clapping as the human race were marched back to go to their dying planet. Throughout the movie the crowd was clapping for the aliens, and not humans. Empathy. It's amazing people empathized more with an alien race's defence than own race's aggression which was however due to the desperate need to survive. Did human empathy have such universe wide limits?? I never knew! Am amazed at the possible implications..

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