After 13 long years of waiting, the sequel to James Cameron’s film Avatar it finally premiered in theaters and it was worth the wait. Taking place more than a decade after the original film, Jake Sully continues the fight against the RDA on Pandora as a member of the alien Na’vi. He and his mate, Neytir, have started their own family — they have two sons, Neteyam and Lo’ak; daughter Tuk; adopted daughter, Kiri; and an adopted human son, “Spider” (so yes, they were very busy parents).
While the audience’s enthusiasm for the sequel may have waned due to the many years of waiting, this new film is sure to bring them all back to Pandora with groundbreaking visuals, more world-building, and an honest story that sets up an epic future for the franchise. There’s so much packed into the film’s whopping 192 minutes, and it just sets the stage for a much bigger story by the time it’s all over.
Return to Pandora
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While the Na’vi had many peaceful years on Pandora, everything changes when the RDA returns to Pandora and drives them from their forest home to the Hallelujah Mountains. Fighting the invading army is Colonel Miles Quaritch, the man who led the RDA’s mining of Pandora and humanity’s war with the Na’vi. Although he died in the first film, RDA took a copy of Quaritch’s memories before his death and implanted them into an avatar known as the Recombinant.
After Quaritch arrives on Pandora, he learns that the RDA now intends to wipe out the Na’vi so that humanity can leave the now dying Earth and colonize Pandora. He and his squad later ambush Sully and his family in the woods and kidnap Spider, who is revealed to be the Colonel’s son. Although Spider hates his father for the many crimes he has committed, the new Quaritch forces him to travel with him as a translator while he hunts down Sully.
Meet Metkayina
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Fearing that Quaritch will find him and his family and threaten their clan, Sully and Neytiri take their children and go into hiding. They live among the Metkayin sea people, whose arms and fin-like tails enable them to swim exceptionally well underwater. Although the family is welcomed into the tribe and they adapt to their culture, Sully’s children are bullied by the local children because of their status as “backwoods people” and the insulting term “half-breeds” (the latter denoted by their extra fingers).
Meanwhile, Quaritch and his team learn the ways of the Na’vi in order to hunt down Sully, creating a dark reflection of the latter’s journey in the original film. Quaritch even tames his own flying “banshee”. Spider eventually learns that the RDA is now hunting whale-like “tulkuns” in order to harvest a valuable fluid in their brains that can stop aging, essentially making this a sequel version of unobtani. But since the tulkuns are considered the intelligent sister species of the Metkayin, the RDA’s efforts to hunt them infuriate the entire tribe.
The final battle
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While Sully’s children and their friends rescue one of the tulkuns, Quaritch and his soldiers capture Lo’ak and Tuk to lure their mother and father out of hiding. This leads to a climactic battle between the Metkayina tribe and the RDA, during which Neteyam dies helping Lo’ak escape from captivity. When Quaritch holds Tuk and Kiri hostage, Sully faces the Colonel in a final battle aboard his sinking ship.
Although Sully is victorious in his fight against Quaritch, he almost drowns before his family saves him. At the same time, Spider reluctantly saves Quaritch from drowning after finding his still alive body. Despite this, Spider refuses to go with Quaritch back to RDA, so he reunites with the Sullys.
After Neteyam’s funeral, Jake says that he and his family will leave the Metkayina clan to protect them from the RDA. But the chief accepts them as part of his clan, and the Sullys decide to continue living among them. In the final moments of the film, Sully and Neytiri connect with Metkayina’s spirit tree and communicate with Neteyam’s spirit, showing that he has become one with Eywa.
What the future holds
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The Sullys may have won this battle against the RDA, but they still haven’t won the war. Quaritch survived the rematch with Sully and Neytiri, so he will surely return for revenge in one of the sequels. But since the Colonel has come to care for Spider, even though he’s not technically his father, Quaritch may be conflicted about where his loyalties lie when he faces his son again. Overall, the ending of the film is very open-ended, as it sets up more battles between the Na’vi and the humans.
The film left a major mystery involving Kira’s true parentage unanswered. The film’s prologue revealed that Grace’s avatar somehow gave birth to Kiri after she died, and the identity of Kiri’s father, if any, was not revealed. Since Grace and her avatar were connected to the Tree of Souls in the first film, it is possible that the Na’vi goddess Eywa may have impregnated the latter in some sort of “virgin birth”. This would explain Kira’s strong spiritual bond with Eywa, which she learned to use to control the wild world of Pandora. Since she may have inherited some of the goddess’ power, Kiri could become the Na’vi’s messiah in future films and be instrumental in defeating the evil RDA.
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Source: newstars.edu.vn