In Cameron's obsession with nature, he has glimpsed the matriarchal attributes, which is one of the core themes of his films.
He used many symbols to construct the visual world of Avatar, such as the skyman spaceship similar to male genitalia, and the countless caves and circular designs in the world of Avatar. Symbolizes matrilineal nature.
But the two themes shown in his films are contradictory.
Maybe it is his own gender privilege that prevents him from facing up to the fact that in a patriarchal society, men plunder women’s wombs through the marriage system, just as skymen plunder through technology. The womb of the natural mother is exactly the same.
So his father, Jake Sully, in the movie, seems out of place in the whole matriarchal nature that Cameron created.
When the male protagonist Jake, as the father, holds the baby in the main position, and his wife Neytiri has just been pregnant and gave birth, but obediently takes the second place, the ceremony is right The cult of the goddess "mother Eva"'s fertility, this movie scene is an important paradoxical image of Cameron's cinematic themes.
In other words, the ancient goddess came to the man's dream, but she can only exist in the illusory dream, or the goddess as a symbol mother Eva, either a dead female scientist or the inhuman animal Tulkun. The man once again discovered the goddess of nature in charge of life and death, but could not connect her with the enslaved wife and daughter around her.
Maybe Cameron is aware of his own self-contradiction, or the fear caused by the contradiction between the two. The separation of the two powers of the role in charge of birth and death keeps the woman in charge of life away from violence (death power), and keeps the woman in charge of violence away from childbirth.
It can be clearly perceived that the female characters in it must have to choose, such as the goddesses of fertility, the water priestess, the heroine Kiri who is psychic with Eva, even the animal mother who was killed, the female characters who choose the power of death, the commander-in-chief of the Skyman Command, and a few who occasionally show up.
Of course, Cameron also thought of a way to solve the relationship between mother and violence. The mother is a sharpshooter, but she stays away from violence most of the time, being forbiddened to initiate violence for herself, she still acts as a docile wife in her daily life, taking care of men. So the mother is usually a virgin who stays away from violence, and she is only allowed to use violence in special circumstances, that is, when her son and husband are threatened—the progress of the feminist movement allows women to have abilities, but the premise It is this capacity that can only be loyal to the patriarchal family.
Why? because once the mother is as free as the father to use violence, then the father's absolute power status will be threatened, and the legal existence of the father will inevitably be questioned. In Cameron's movie, the power of the father only comes from death. He must infinitely amplify the power of death of men in order to retain the legitimacy of men in power.
When the ancient goddess comes again, she is a tender new life and a cruel death. The goddess is in charge of the life and death of human beings, and brings the first experience of human life and death. For babies, being watched and loved by their mothers is life, and being ignored by mothers is death. This is the first power structure experienced by human beings. , the goddess conceives babies and also kills babies.
No matter how Cameron sings the praises of the patrilineal family, this is also an era of disintegration of the patriarchal family, and the patriarchal family under the marriage system is gradually collapse.
If women do not join marriage, men cannot complete empowerment in the family. The antagonism between matriarchy and patriarchy is also the antagonism of these two families, the antagonism of mother and wife.
A wife is not a mother, and a mother will not become a wife.
The natural mother is cruel, does not create offspring for any male, and looks on indifferently to the male competition, the weak dies, the strong wins, the mother always chooses the winner. Just because they choose the same winner doesn't mean the mother will be the wife, the winner is forever changing, and so is the mother's choice.
The people who enslave their mothers will be enslaved, totalitarianism is conceived in patriarchy, this is the punishment of mankind for turning mothers into wives, but this is not the heaviest punishment.
Human beings have lost their mothers, so every child is lacking for life. , a man who provides shelter and security to a woman, is it a real man? In nature, only the mother is the existence of unconditional love and protection. Human beings look for love, just like children look for their mothers.
Human beings have lost their mothers for too long, and those wives who are disappointed in their husbands even want to raise their children as their own mothers, asking them for attention, maternal love , with shelter.
We all hope that the mother goddess Eva will return to the world. She is as powerful, warm and cruel as we imagined. She conceives life and brings death , although she is still far away from us at this time, all children who lack a mother are yearning for her.
Before this, human beings could only be their own mothers.
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