Avatar- A left wing Film?

Film:Avatar
Director: James Cameron
Release: 12/18/2009
Genre: Action/Adventure

Plot:When his brother is killed in a robbery, paraplegic Marine Jake Sully decides to take his place in a mission on the distant world of Pandora. There he learns of greedy corporate figurehead Parker Selfridge's intentions of driving off the native humanoid "Na'vi" in order to mine for the precious material scattered throughout their rich woodland. In exchange for the spinal surgery that will fix his legs, Jake gathers Intel for the cooperating military unit spearheaded by gung-ho Colonel Quaritch, while simultaneously attempting to infiltrate the Na'vi people with the use of an "avatar" identity. While Jake begins to bond with the native tribe and quickly falls in love with the beautiful alien Neytiri, the restless Colonel moves forward with his ruthless extermination tactics, forcing the soldier to take a stand - and fight back in an epic battle for the fate of Pandora.


Ideology
At first Avatar came across as a film that believes in right wing ideology as the marines were in control, giving orders, going to a different planets and fighting the 'evil', 'savage', aliens for there precious resources and land! This is the part of the film we support the military and think 'yeah show em who's boss!' As we don't yet know who these aliens are.

However as the film moves on we see that the Aliens known as the 'Na'vi' are actually really nice peaceful race and just want to be left alone in there own world to do whatever they do, they live simple lives and are at one with nature, kind of how the Red Indians used to live before America was colonized by Britain, the only difference being they live in a more fantastical environment and are 10ft tall and Blue!

This is were we begin to notice that Avatar believes in a Left wing Ideology, as the Americans begin to be seen as the 'bad guys'. The marines use violence and force to make the 'Na'vi' people leave there homes simply by destroying there homes and everything dare to them, not caring about who dies in the process as long as the job gets done. This is also similar to how Red Indians were killed and there land stripped away from them during the colonization of  America, all for land and resources.'Jake Sulley' the main character in the film is first on the marines side but when he realizes that its wrong to kill these people he switches side and decides to fight for freedom rather then money. He disobeys his superiors and escapes from the marine facility to join the 'Na'vi' in there fight for freedom and survival. This is left wing as 'Jake' does what is the morally right thing to do even if it meant going against his own people. Of course he doesn't believe that hes part of the human race anymore but more 'Na'vi' as he fell in love with there amazing way of life.