Full of Hate?

Carol Gould, American commentator in London for Sky News/Press TV and recent panellist on BBC 'Any Questions?,' and a stalwart of the NCF (right),  is uncomfortable about what she perceives as the malevolent theme in Avatar. She writes at Pyjamas Media: '

'Right from the start the figure of the commander is a stereotype of the ruthless Marine who will eat his grandmother for breakfast. He has no regard for the Na’vi people depicted in the movie and cares not a jot if they are annihilated and their habitat is destroyed. What I find objectionable about this scenario is that it generates an atmosphere throughout the film of bias: that the graceful, simple Na’vi are the victims of a brutal American assault and that they ought to try to kill every last one of the Marines. You may say, “Well, can you blame them if their habitat is being napalmed?” Many will say they cannot be blamed. But what disturbs me about James Cameron’s scenario is that his depictions of most Americans are of a species of humanity so extreme and so vile that other nations and peoples should take up arms against them.'

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