soulfood wrote:"Island" by Aldous Huxley is my favourite book of all time and although Avatar was dripping with hollywood attitude, I can appreciate the paralells drawn between these two works and how their message will grow more and more relevant every day.
I highly suggest that anyone who enjoyed this film that hasn't read "Island" should do so without delay. Similar vibe, but replacing cinematic emotion with raw substance like only one man could.
AGREED and seconded.
"In his last major work, the Island, the evils that Aldous Huxley has been warning us about in his earlier works - over-population, coercive politics, militarism, mechanization, the destruction of the environment and the worship of science; will find their opposites in the gentle and doomed Utopia of Pala." -Velma Lush
The books central theme is very similar to the theme of Avatar, the relationship between the Humans, Na'vi and their environment. Wonderful movie by the way, seen it three times already.
Attention.. Attention...
"The more one is able to articulate what it is, the less others are able to understand."
I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars.
Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.
Our Great War's a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives.