Spoilers ahead! Quotes and reflective thoughts pull directly from the movie, please read at your own discretion.
This post is about the movie Avatar: Fire and Ash. Directed by James Cameron. Starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, and Sigourney Weaver.
Coming To See
Beyond the fire of hate and amongst the ashes of grief, lies the strong heart of your people. Your home you fight to protect, with clashing waves that never settle and skies that know no rest. You hear his voice in the wind, there is an ache in your heart; cries become of your small voice, all you have is your faith. You mourn, you fight, you heal, and you fight again. Because this is your path, and you can protect your family, that you can do. With new eyes, all they have to do is open them, to see…
This world goes so much deeper than you can imagine.
Avatar: Fire and Ash — this third installment proves there is no world like Pandora, nor the people who belong to it. Grief heavies the heart of those who fight for family. Hate, mourning, faith, soar high beyond the ashes, as an epic of heart and visual spectacle plunges great depths, delivering breathtaking moments that rally the soul. A fun return to learning, once again, the Na’vi way.
Key Quotes & Reflections
Mourning
“Jake I am in this place where I have nothing. Not my people, not my forest, even my father’s bow is gone. All I have is my faith. This is the great mothers plan…”
~ Neytiri
I Killed My Brother. Guilt eats at the heart of the hearted, as grief subjects the soul to yearning.
The Fire Of Hate Leaves Only The Ash of Grief. The yield of evil upon the oppressed. The anguish of loss for those who lament. The prevailing of love in what no longer is.
Say Nothing Keep Busy. To circumvent pain is to foil healings; corrosion to your being in what you avoid.
The Mourning Period is Not Even Over. Periods of sorrow have beginnings and ends, so that hope may have its beginning.
You Will Always Be Toruk Makto. Let not afflicted sufferings blight the makings of who you are, and who you have been called to be.
Where was Eywa When Our Son…Such depths of loss, pains that in which we believe. Shattering so greatly what you now know, with a pleading to probe beyond what you understand.
All I Have Is My Faith. So you must. So you may carry onward amidst the knowledge of good and evil, and the gift that you may live.
All You See
“He belongs with his own kind…and what kind is that? You hate them so much that’s all you see…”
~ Neytiri & Kiri
All You See. Envy so plagues the mind it blinds the heart, with no eyes to see, nor ears to hear.
This is A Family, This Is Not A Democracy. Always search the heart to know the will that is good, and not the will of your own making. Greatly must this be done, for you and your family.
I Already Lost My Brother I Can’t Lose Anyone Else. Of this you cannot deal, and for what reason should you? Why must this be a loss you face?
Everyone Mourns in Their Own Way. Grief is a mass that uniquely weighs each of our hearts. For all it is love that comes to save.
We’re On Our Own. In some ways you are, and it is up to choose how you prevail in this.
This Feels Right. Be led by the Helper, see to it that the aim of what is done, is right.
A Path For You
“This world goes much deeper than you can imagine…you got new eyes colonel, all you got to do is open them…”
~ Jake
The Children. My Children. Tend to them, a gracious reward you are allowed to protect.
He’s A Good Kid. He’s A Great Kid. May they be better than us; raise them, and see they very much are.
This World Goes So Much Deeper Than You Can Imagine. More than the yearn for pleasure in passage your days, greater than the treasures to be sought in vain, beyond the comforts of bites you crave; a world of meaning and seeing that stems from the unseen.
Hear My Small Voice. To every heart who cries out, know that He is near. Sought earnestly, He will listen.
You Are Touched By The Old Mother’s Hand. Each and all touched by the breath of the One greater. This is known from the moment you were born, and beautiful it is when you understand why.
A Seed Was Planted. Nurture it to grow by way of the one who planted it.
You Have to Trust It. The assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Stay In This Life
“If I had to choose between my family and a pink skin I would kill him…I hate the insanity in their minds…”
~ Neyteri
Who Are You To Question The Will of Eywa? Who are we to question the will of our Creator?
Where His Song Cannot Be Heard. Who are we to so far condemn those who have far fallen the bases of virtue? Correction must there be, and restoration must there be also.
You Said You Could Protect Your Family That You Could Do. How deeply it can grieve man to do the opposite of the sort. See that this world will be of its own doing, and you are to do the best with what is received. This for your family — that you can do.
I Hate The Insanity In Their Minds. The designs of the enemy grows deep in its way. To ways so far vile, it is insane.
“Stay in this life brother. We need you, we love you, you have greatness in you.”
~ Kiri
Stay In This Life Brother.
From the knowledge of this life, we come to know anguish.
At its fangs, you may falter — but do not forsake your breath.
Speak life into those who grieve.
You are not hidden; you are loved and needed.
Beseech your heart toward healing,
and know that He is near.
I Went To The Fire and Learned Its Way. The fire enters many. To know not the heart of the kingdom, the evil one will come to snatch what has been sown.
Spread Your Fire Across The World. Great evil is there in this life; every fire can be extinguished.
Coming To See
“He will come back when he is ready, this is his path.”
~ Neyteri
This is His Path. A path there is for each one of the many, and so I ask — if you will come to walk yours?
The Sea Washes You Clean. See there is living water, and in Him you are clean and never to thirst again.
Coming To See. In truth, be set free.
I See You. With open eyes, they do.
Please I Need You. Don’t Push Me Away. Draw near, we need Him. Never can He be pushed away.
You Are Alive For The First Time. That will be, as you come to taste and see. To know and experience; to worship in the Spirit in Truth.
To The Believer
I understand the grievances of this life seem to know not their end. Advancing, we hold heavy the makeup of mourning, anguish, vitriol, loathing, insensibility, and many such things. Leaving our knowing to the whim of belief; so, from the heart the mouth speaks, and thinkings are far demeaned from the Spirit in truth.
I submit to you that among all things under the sun that is to come, certain is the hardship of this life. The knowing of good and evil, is to be seen and experienced all the same. Your passage will be defined by your faith — that in which your hope is assured by and your conviction in what you do not see. Implore yourself of where you now stand and what you have truly implored of your belief.
The world is riddled with beauty and truth, intricately intertwined to reveal the heart of being resides not far from One wondrous to measures unmeasurable. He sees you, through it all He sees you; seek and come to see. Stay in this life my brothers and sisters and be alive to a new one all the more.
“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen.”
2 Corinthians 4:16–18
Credit: Script and select images used in this post are from Avatar: Fire and Ash (© 20th Century Studios). Included for reflective commentary and thematic analysis.
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