Avatar

What's most remarkable about the virulent conservative reaction to the film is how much they identify with the story's villains.

First off, don’t see the movie Avatar. It might look good, but the direction and storytelling are horrible. Unfortunately, director James Cameron and his lefty loonies are trying to promote another political message to the unsuspecting public: America is a repressive nation.

The United States is a far greater country than the film's villain, a giant corporation with an army. To the degree that the film is a warning of an inhumane future, it's one we should heed.

What's most remarkable is that America is never mentioned in the film. Not even once. No one could seriously think that Avatar's villains are fully representative of America. U.S. filmgoers, who have made this film #1 two weeks in a row, obviously don't feel the film is somehow calling them evil. They identify, rather, with its hero: a soldier who sides with injustice against a corrupt system.

So what to make of Free Republic and other GOP websites' incredible anger against this film? It is, perhaps, that their party, not the United States. is already the monster that the film warns us of: an anti-ecological, anti-religious tool whose primary objective is enabling foreign shareholders of American corporations to maximize profits. Party activists' anger is proof of something unexpected: at least the most conservative elements of the Republican Party know what they are. They just resent being unmasked.