LOS ANGELES - THE perfection of an idyllic planet populated by
perfect blue aliens at one with nature and each other from the
hugely successful movie Avatar, is causing ordinary humans to
become depressed, reported entertainment media on Thursday.
The world created by director James Cameron is so perfect that
entire support groups have sprung up to help fans cope with the
fact that it doesn't exist.
According to an article in The Daily Telegraph, fans of the film
have inundated dedicated websites with their confused and depressed
postings, setting up discussion threads like 'Ways to cope with the
depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible', which already
has more than 1,000 posts.
In another forum a user wrote: 'When I woke up this morning
after watching Avatar for the first time yesterday, the world
seemed grey. It just seems so meaningless. I still don't really see
any reason to keep doing things at all. I live in a dying world.'
Other fans are even more affected by the situation, reported The
Daily Telegraph, with one posting: 'I even contemplate suicide
thinking that if I do it I will be rebirthed in a world similar to
Pandora.'
Another report in The Daily Mail newspaper said that the
detailed visual realism could be leading viewers to become
particularly attached to the idea of the world.
Dr Stephan Quentzel, psychiatrist and Medical Director for the
Louis Armstrong Centre for Music and Medicine at Beth Israel
Medical Centre in New York told CNN: 'Virtual life is not real life
and it never will be, but this is the pinnacle of what we can build
in a virtual presentation so far. It has taken the best of our
technology to create this virtual world and real life will never be
as utopian as it seems onscreen. It makes real life seem more
imperfect.'
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Like tat also can ah? Perfect also wrong, Not perfect also wrong
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