In the three Series of Avatar Film, spectators might have asked questions, such as why was Jake Sully chosen by Eywa? The human hybrid from Eywa as God of the Universe in Pandora.
Jake Sully was chosen because he came to Pandora empty – not pretension whatsoever or pure. He was adamant to learn to let go of his ego and to learn about the culture of Na'vi people. He was willing to leave behind his human identity. Jake was definitely dead, and he regained his life. His decision to save the Na'vi people was far better than saving humans on earth. This constituted moral rectification of human civilisation.
The modern human understading (i.e. Indonesia) was, to a large extent, incorrect regarding earth crisis as a result of fate and natural disasters. This was not so in Pandora, earth crisis in the Avatar film was not caused by fate, or natural disasters. It was conscious human choices for exploitation, greed, and disregard of natural balance. This was exactly what happened in Indonesia now as evidenced in Aceh and North Sumatera. From deforestation, excessive energy consumption to political decisions that led to environmental or ecological even ecosystem destruction, all were the results of conscious humans decisions.
If that was so, as happened in Avatar, if human destroyed his own house why did they have to sacrifice other nation(s)? Klaim darurat manusia, realita energi semakin menipis, dan bumi semakin kritis, tidak boleh tidak membenarkan bahwa bangsa Na'vi yang hidupnya selaras dengan alam dan tidak pernah terlibat dalam perusakan bumi. Responsibility could not be transferred to them. Jake Sully took the side of Na'vi Nation and refused the old thoughts regarding human civilization that the strong had the right to live at the expense of the weak. Pandora was an imitation of that. Colonization was wrapped in a story about crisis for needs.
And without change in morality, Pandora was similar to a natural ecosystem like earth that crumbled, about local civilization that vanished. Saving Na'vi meant cutting off extinction and learning from failures.
Cited from gilafilm.id, Eywa was often known as "god" of Pandora but in the universe of Avatar, Eywa was not a mythical God. Eywa was a real and scientific biological consciousness of Pandora Planet.
Pandora had huge life network even from the roots of the tree, the flora and fauna were inter-connected to the brain nerve. This was what Eywa was essentially. Eywa was not a metaphor. According to the scientist in the film, the roots of Pandora formed electro-chemical system that transmitted biological data.And each living entity in Pandora was a dot, which contributed data in the form of life experience, emotion, memory, intuition, and responses. They were similar to biological internet, alive without central server and collectively connected.
One nerve node was called Tsaheylu and not merely a spiritual symbol. That was a biological face such as a nerve contact between life entities and Eywa network that stored living memories so when Na'vi died, their awareness was not lost but was “uploaded” to Eywa, just like biological Cloud Storage.
That was the reason for the dialogue, "all energy was borrowed." Death was no longer the end but a return to the network. Eywa did not control the points one-by-one, because It had to keep the system in balance.
At the time of the Avatar film (2009), Resources Development Administration (RDA) was the largest non-government entity responsible for resource mining, technology development, and human colonization in Pandora. RDA almost destroyed Pandora, and Eywa kick-started collective response and attacked human troops.
A question arose, ”Is Eywa God?” No. Yet He was the cosmos energy that created everything. He was "ecological God," the Guardian of the planet and local life. Eywa made sure that Pandora would not vanish, and that there would be no human colonization.
In conjunction with the theme, Eywa was a form of James Cameron’s criticism – the movie director – of extractive exploitation and capitalism.
Cited from mubadalah.id, in Avatar: Fire and Ash, layers of criticism increasingly intensified and full blow. The conflict was no longer about who against who, but about power structure that allowed war and ecological crisis to continue and to recur.
We were led to witness how violence was not isolated. It always went hand-in-hand with natural exploitation, colonialism, and the same drive for greed. Fire and Ash was not merely about visual element, but a sign of abandoned destruction. The soil was scorched, lives were uprooted, and the future was ravaged before it had time to develop.
What is most disturbing – the film gave an honest picture of who paid the most for all the chaos. These were not the war mongers, neither were they the people who were sitting comfortably behind the technological scene. Those who bore the biggest brunt were those considered strong who had always managed to persist - women. Women who took care of daily life, who looked after when the world crumbled, who lost their house(s), children, and sense of safety, but who people expected would keep on living without any voice. (Ast)
