Avatar

I don't know how intellectual it is for me to deduct life lessons from a film that was virally marketed, but I just watched Avatar and it absolutely blew my mind. Not only because of the insane animation, but also because because of the message it's trying to depict. Not only is the lesson in the movie vividly and aptly portrayed but the hypocritical way that it is depicted is what takes me aback even further. I feel silly trying to learn something from a movie that is marketed to people by a film industry fueled with the very same pride, avarice, ignorance, greed, and corruption that is chastised in the movie. Absolutely reeks of irony if you ask me. At the same time, I am no better because I can say that I paid my respective $12.50 ($25.00 if we include my dad's ticket) and sucked in this movie like milk from straw, and enjoyed it at that.
Secondly, it's no secret that humans destroy, destroy, destroy for their own benefit. We do awful things. And it makes me wonder, if someone were to come across our civilization, would they find anything beautiful in it? Our world is now so artificial, and the things that are truly beautiful, we destroy senselessly. The process is down to a cycle, and we are all guilty of it, but at this rate, it cannot and will not be stopped.
Thirdly, I pray that if some alien civilization does discover us or what not, they make the decision to exterminate us. We find enemies within our own race, so it's safe to say we are not ready for anything outside the tiny frame of mind that is our atmosphere. We wreak war upon ourselves, and not only that, we seem to require chaos in order to bond.

Blah, blah yes yes I know that technically this movie is a metaphor for Europeans slaughtering the natives, but there is so much more than that.