Avatar and Contextualization

Wow, this post was buried in my draft folder since January 13, after I saw the movie. Good thing I was tweaking this blog again. I saw that this was unpublished. Here's the post:

For those who have seen Avatar, you would understand when I say it's a great movie, it's cinematography, designs, costumes, and the graphics were incredible. It's just mind boggling to know that most of the scenes where just drawn. I even wonder if they used cad drawing? I loved the movie. Of course, it's animistic in nature... and I didn't quite like the story but I usually don't linger at the movie's literal meaning.

What theme I could draw from the movie is the story of contextualization. The end part though wasn't that good to relate with what I am trying to point at. It's just the general perception of the story. Jack was sent to Pandora to study and learn about the it's culture, earn the aliens' trust so they would find where the "treasure" was located. Sure enough, Jack made it to the heart of the people by becoming an Avatar... or by becoming one of them. In this process, he earned the aliens' trust and heart. And he proved that trust by helping them out.

And that is how we should reach out to people. Be among them, learn their ways, leran their language, earn their trust and when something happens... you go on because of that trust.

A great example of contextualization, indeed.