Since becoming the highestgrossing film of all time back in 2009, Avatar has polarised viewers. Audiences span the spectrum of obsessives fascinated by its next-gen technical achievements and tall, blue, digital aliens, to haters deeming it a Pocahontas rip-off, trying to square the film’s chart-topping box office receipts with its supposedly non-existent cultural impact.
But there’s great irony to forgetting just how ground-breaking the beautiful blue moon really was, with its lush forests (initially) untouched by human destruction. remains a massively ambitious anti-imperialist and ecologically concerned blockbuster. As a warning about climate change, director James Cameron knew that, to get people to care for the world, he had to show a vision of nature and community in all its beauty
