History and Avatar

[HufweMakto]

I'm very bad in history so correct me if i'm wrong.

I live in netherlands/dutch and I also had the history about our "oost indische compagnie" and what I learned in my history (and i'm not sure of it that it was really like that or whatever) that the people who lived there wheren't forced to anything. I didn't had a more than 2 lessons about that so I don't know much about it. but how I see it there wasn't anyone who where forced. and for us it was pure the stuff they could get there.

beside that. I think the international wikipedia is more trustable then our own history book

I wouldn't be too surprised... Here's the link, Sanjwale: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banda_I..._the_Bandanese

[torukmakto4]

I think the actions of SecOps towards the end of the movie also show what happens when a period of war or conflict is maintained for too long. People lose their humanity and do things they wouldn't normally do. If you look back to the Vietnam War, towards the end of the war there were atrocities committed by the US military(my lai massacre for instance)...soldiers being kept in a war for too long and not being able to deal with it. ...The point is, war makes people do terrible things and over time makes you insane.

That is very true. Look at Wainfleet and Fike. Throughout the film we are made aware of their immorality, but they aren't just are what they are. There is an excellent chance they are immoral and callous as a result of being psychologically snapped by protracted conflict, like our (USA) own troops in Vietnam as you mention - and there is evidence Cameron intended them as an allegory for these troops. Why is Wainfleet yelling "GET SOME!" from behind a door gun on a chopper about to fire rockets into a settlement containing innocents? Very Vietnam.

I also hold this phenomenon as a root of Quaritch's actions. He can be viewed as a tragic character in the final stage of these effects who we watch crash and burn.

(Hey, this is my first post! Man, I have been lurking forever.)