Comments on: West Bank Story http://globalistan.org/west-bank-story/ Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:31:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.17 By: oliver http://globalistan.org/west-bank-story/#comment-311 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:31:46 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=500#comment-311 @ Sayalee: of course I can find parallels, but I don’t think they really fit. Just compare the different motives why the lands were taken (the fictional and the real ones). I don’t know how you may see this conflict, I definitely sympthasize with the palestinians, not the Israelis. And still, I don’t like the comparison – the movie was made for entertainment, the characters stand for money and amusement- is this conflict really anything amusing?

That was the reason why I simply dislike taking movies – made exactly for the opposite – and compare your situation with the one in the movie. It would have been definitely something different if it was the other way round, as I’ve mentioned already.

]]> By: Sayalee http://globalistan.org/west-bank-story/#comment-310 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:51:04 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=500#comment-310 @ Oliver: You really cannot find a parallel between the Na’avi and the palestinians? Between colonized people who are restricted from access to their own land and resources? I guess this largely depends on your view of the conflict and of colonization.

As for the activists dressing as the Na’avi, I find it an interesting case of art imitating life and life imitating art and so on and so forth. Art can be a revealing indicator of what lies on the mind of a particular society. Its guilt, its excesses, passions, obsessions… This is why modern art is so interesting. You will find installations of cracks on floors, toilets, plastic surgery alongside subversive representations of gender and sexual orientation, the current preoccupations of modern society. And colonial memories feature predominantly in the collective consciousness of both, the colonizer and the colonized. It is still how majority of relationships between people are defined today.

]]> By: oliver http://globalistan.org/west-bank-story/#comment-309 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:48:02 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=500#comment-309 A very good article, indeed, though in my opinion the comparison might be to drastical.

I don’t want to disagree, that movies transport everyday-political-messages, but I can’t really find such a striking parallel between the Na’avi of the movie and real-life palestinians.

Exaggeration might be an excuse, but to use characters and settings of a movie to transmit a political message is somehow weird, and definitely nothing the movie was thought to be.

And it definitely shoudln’t be used as a role model to fresehen and strengthen the cause for conflict between palestinian and jews…

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