Avatar 2, The Waterway: Yes, it was worth the 13 year wait

We waited 13 years. We had time to get impatient, to forget him a bit and then to tell ourselves that in the meantime we have grown up, and that we will like him less than when we were in 2009. Personally: 13 years old, that is, he is older than my age when I saw him Avatars…

Finally, we saw it when it hit theaters Wednesday 13 December 2022And you know what: more than twice her age was worth the wait.

We explain why, without spoilers!

Visual glare: yes, but with a deep meaning

Despite Avatar 2: The Water Way was wrapped in a great mystery (the synopsis of the film is almost a single line and does not reveal anything very concrete) there is information that could not be escaped: from the point of view technicianJames Cameron’s film is absolutely breathtaking.

Incredible special effects, cinematography of the future, epic spectacular, visual miracle… It would be nice to accumulate superlatives, which would not be enough to describe a cinematic experience that, frankly, is indescribable.

hypnotic beauty of these blue-skinned characters with immense irises, passing through the realism of the slightest drop of water, without forgetting staggering wealth of the natural world and above all aquatic in which we are immersed for more than 3 hours, Avatars 2 it is of one crazy generosity.

13 years is a long time when you are waiting for the rest of a story, but it is also the time it takes to allow the 3D to reach the heights of perfection. Forget headwords, blurry images and instead reach out to touch this little three-headed fluorescent shrimp happily swimming in the translucent waters of Pandora.

Imaginary planets, 3D and special effects… to better see our world

So yes, Avatar 2: The Water Way, it’s well done. It’s still. Technical prowess may not be the first argument to see it.

We’d almost forget it, but let’s remember that there is technique behind it the director of titanicI named the man who for 24 years has made the whole world cry with a simple raft that two people can’t carry on.

In other words, behind the grandiose show, there is one more overwhelming, sensitive And ecological that we have seen in the cinema in recent years.

If James Cameron absolutely organizes his entire narrative around Jack Sully’s family, it’s not just to multiply the number of characters, like a series would. In Avatars 2 : there is no main characteror, if you think about it, super rare in movies.

Thus, most of the sequences show moments of interchange between children discovering the aquatic worldas to create a parallel with the viewerimmersed and amazed by Pandora and this 3D that goes beyond anything I can imagine in terms of technique.

Through this decision to decentralize the story of a single hero, man and adult, to concentrate instead on the sensitivity, looks and feelings of children, James Cameron already speaks to us about cinema: about cinema as that collective experience, live in theatres, together.

Deeply connected to Nature, grateful to the invisible entity that guides their Destiny and above all full of love for the sea, the forest and the animalsthe characters ofAvatars 2 are the actors of a hypnotic and extraordinary ecological, anti-speciesist and spiritual tale.

Leaving the room, we are shaken. It takes time to get back to Earth. We often cry. But most of all, we see our world better.

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