What's it all about, Ava?

Wherein the author speculates about the most expensive and highest grossing movie to date:

Wherein the author/creator of said film, Mr. James Cameron, claims his film is a "perfect ecoterorism recruiting tool."

Is anyone else getting a whiff of irony here? Which Mr. Cameron perhaps did not intend? I would love to compare my carbon footprint with his!

There is also the fact that many young people who have seen the film come out quite depressed, some even expressing the desire to commit suicide if only you could end up in a place like Pandora. (Sorry that could be "Unobtainium.")

I will confess to all that I did not see the film Titanic and from what I am hearing I probably I will not bother to go and see this film either. For one thing, the storyline is not very robust, even for a science fiction production. I prefer my science fiction rather more complex and perhaps less dependent on expensive visual illusions. Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke come to mind. By Mr. Cameron's own admission, this may be sort of a high-tech version of, "The Triumph of the Will," or, "The Birth of a Nation," both of which were "quite staggeringly popular "at the time of their release.

One author's book that I would like to read is Kurt Vonnegut's masterpiece, "Slaughterhouse Five." I not sure if I will come out depressed or elated but I would like to comment that I was not particularly depressed after reading, "The Fall, "for reasons I will outline later. I do like my fantasy/science fiction but I am partial to stories that reflect the complexity, not to say the depravity, of human life as it really is. And the reality of having a Down Syndrome child and not even being able to experience the life of the child was reality as I have known it. And it continues to affect me to this day. Here is the point: the "unobtainium" of my life has presented itself--and been obtained-- through sadness, trials, and so forth. If I had to make a choice between watching all the movies I have ever watched, (save one), I would prefer at this point in my life to go through Samuel's birth and forgo the rest.

Relevant Question: what movie is being and has been watched by more people in the world than any other? Hint: low-budget,no-tech, no name actors, and no other movie comes close in terms of the numbers of those people who have watched it.

For all of the reasons noted above and many more, I would like to present the various Webster's meanings of, "avatar": "the incarnation of a Hindu deity such as Vishnu or Krishna; an incarnation in human form; an embodiment, as a concept of philosophy, often in a person; a variant phase or version of the continuing basic entity; and an electronic image that represents and is manipulated by a computer user, as in a computer game or an online shopping site."

I think the reality reflects the last description as the most appropriate definition of Mr. Cameron's Magnum Opus. And in view of his "statement of purpose," I would like to, in honor of Kurt Vonnegut, propose that the alternative title could be,
"Abattoir".

Apollyon: Suddenly I feel very, very good!

Igor: oh, master!

Apollyon: "Don't worry, it'll pass it'll pass.......... now, where were we? Obviously in the hands of a complete incompetent!
Day one: computers! "

From: Robert Duvall's version of the great Satan in the Monty Pythonesque Pilgrim's Progressite film, "The Time Bandits ." (four moons)