Juleon Schins

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James Cameron is a converted agnostic and vegan. Film director, writer, producer, and editor, he established his name among the great. In Avatar (2009), humans are on a mission to an Earth-like planet, Pandora, in order to secure mining interests. As is the usual case on Planet Earth, too, on Pandora an indigenous population happens to live on the prospected mining field. In order to lure the Navi into peaceful resettlement, doctor Augustine trains herself and some fellow researchers to infiltrate their culture.




Cameron's movie is not mere criticism of the greed of multinationals, whose CEO's do not flinch to use military power in order to achieve economic targets. On closer inspection, Cameron's Avatar movie describes a Utopia and an admirable one at that. Even though there is nothing remotely Catholic about Cameron's life (he divorced four times), his Utopia is a spitting image of the Garden of Eden, adorned with five out of seven Sacraments