I have been meaning to write about the movie Avatar which I went and saw last week and hope to get a second shot at this week if possible. However, this will be no movie review. Instead, you should check out
this article about the Pandora Blues. It is about people that become depressed after watching Avatar because the planet Pandora created in the move is so beautiful and wonderful, and they feel that life here is so awful. They long to live in the fantasy world where all is beauty and peace and harmony.
The thing is, that is what we are created for, and we can live there, just not yet. The new heaven and new earth that awaits God's people will make the fantasy of Pandora look sad and stale. Isn't it tragic that so many people are so unhappy with their life here now that they would lose their footing by watching a computer animated fantasy, yet refuse to turn to the love of God who offers meaning in life here and a glorious life to come. I am waiting for the day when I experience something much more wonderful and fulfilling that either this life, or the fictitious world of Avatar.
For the record, I enjoyed the movie immensely. I looked at it as just that, a movie, a story, a piece of entertaining and very well made fiction.
