A luminescent, idyllic world populated by peace-loving aliens may have captivated cinema audiences across the world, but for some the ‘immersive’ experience of watching the film Avatar has threatened to overshadow their own lives.
Hundreds of fans of James Cameron’s blockbuster 3-D epic have complained that they feel despair after leaving the cinema that they can never live in a world like the mythical Pandora, in the film.
An online discussion board, titled “Ways to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible,” has received more than 2,000 posts from fans beating their breasts over their relatively more pallid life on Earth.
“After I watched Avatar for the first time, I truly felt depressed that I was awake in this world again,” one post reads.
Another says, “It’s so hard, I can’t force myself to think that it’s just a movie, and to get over it, and that living like the Na’vi will never happen.”
On a separate forum, on the Web site Naviblue.com, fans have even considered more extreme action.
“I even contemplated suicide, thinking that if I do it I will be reborn in a world similar to Pandora, and that everything will be the same as in Avatar,” one post read.
Hundreds of fans of James Cameron’s blockbuster 3-D epic have complained that they feel despair after leaving the cinema that they can never live in a world like the mythical Pandora, in the film.
An online discussion board, titled “Ways to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible,” has received more than 2,000 posts from fans beating their breasts over their relatively more pallid life on Earth.
“After I watched Avatar for the first time, I truly felt depressed that I was awake in this world again,” one post reads.
Another says, “It’s so hard, I can’t force myself to think that it’s just a movie, and to get over it, and that living like the Na’vi will never happen.”
On a separate forum, on the Web site Naviblue.com, fans have even considered more extreme action.
“I even contemplated suicide, thinking that if I do it I will be reborn in a world similar to Pandora, and that everything will be the same as in Avatar,” one post read.
