The music is not only intense but also dramatic and cinematic. It provokes both feelings of admiration and humiliation, it is so intense that we, at first, become overtaken by feelings that relate to 9/11. Feelings that are reminiscent of the attack on america, but this is simultaneously overcome by our feelings of sympathy which our evoked by this clip of avatar. Clearly this clip acknowledges the rhetoric (arguments) of the colonizer but at the same times argues for, and justifies, the side/beliefs of the colonized . Personally at this point in the story I personally feel highly sympathetic of the natives and do to the voice of Jake Sully i would have to say i have turned "native", sympathizing with the natives. At this point in the stories the signifiers are the dialogue within the movie, the music within it, and the position the main most like able character in the stories takes. This signifies to the viewer to sympathize with the colonized, although at the same time justifying the colonizers point of view. This passes on the effect of sympathizing with the victims, the colonized of any culture, both native american, African, Asian or any other colonized society.
This part of Avatar i believe deliberately expresses a view counter to our beliefs of the colonization. While through our biased education based on partial truths we have come to believe that America belongs to us, clearly the colonized had a very different view. This movie expresses there view and clearly proves that they too had to go through intense conflicts. This is both against our current historic cultural view of the conflict and the view that is expressed in other contemporary views of this.
This is a well rounded blog post. You used material that we learned throughout the year in a cohesive manner, bravo. I found the part where you connect the signified and signifiers to the viewer. Where you say you have turned "native". I had never thought about that before, I too at that point in the movie have almost become a native. That alone shows how effective the creators of Avatar were at making us feel how they wanted us to feel. They do this, maybe, by using their audience's intertextualities, in that most of the viewers are sympathetic towards the Native Americans and can relate the Na'vi to them.
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