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Originally Posted by Versus
About disability being represented in movies:
I can empathize with the hero from avatar, but that might be because I have a minority perspective. He was alright with infiltrating the blue aliens because he didn't know anything about them and it wasn't until he was able to humanize an enemy that he could make the moral decision to help them.
It was a completely human decision and had nothing to do with him being disabled or being offered the chance to walk again for his service. More likely, it's because he was a marine that could not be a marine. I personally know people, who despite their injuries, would give anything to get back in the fight.
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That's true, but there a few scenes that most people never even catch that I couldn't ignore! The one that sticks out more than anything is a cut shot from the CGI to real life. The voice over from our hero is talking about how his legs are getting stronger, running through the forests, how powerful he feels and then the scene cuts to him returning from the link. He sits up and looks down at his legs that as a human being, don't work. The look on his face cut right through me because my legs will never work again either. That look of 'cripple' is there through the whole scene. He lifts his useless legs off the link bed, transfers to his wheelchair and pushes himself down the hall- all well aware that's he's not 'whole' as a human but he is as a blue alien.
As for the decision to walk again? That was the ONLY reason the guy went out there to begin with so that was in fact his sole motivation from the start of the movie. The first time we see his wheelchair we hear the voice over about the surgery curing spinal injuries and its prohibitive cost. He's there to make the money to walk again. And how am I supposed to feel?