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By Jo Piazza, Special to CNN
January 11, 2010 8:06 a.m. EST
(CNN) -- James Cameron's completely immersive spectacle "Avatar" may
have been a little too real for some fans who say they have
experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film
because they long to enjoy the beauty of the alien world Pandora.
Pàrrafo 1: Algunos admiradores dicen que han experimentado la
depresión y pensamientos suicidas después de haber visto la película
AVATAR.
On the fan forum site "Avatar Forums," a topic thread entitled "Ways
to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible"
has received more than 1,000 posts from people experiencing depression
and fans trying to help them cope. The topic became so popular last
month that forum administrator Philippe Baghdassarian had to create a
second thread so people could continue to post their confused feelings
about the movie.
Pàrrafo 2: En un sitio de admiradores “Foros de Avatar” ubican un
tópico titulado Modo e enfrentarse con la depresión del sueño de
Pandora donde más de 1.000 postes de persona que experimenta la
depresión y admiradores que tratan de ayudarlas.
"I wasn't depressed myself. In fact the movie made me happy ,"
Baghdassarian said. "But I can understand why it made people
depressed. The movie was so beautiful and it showed something we don't
have here on Earth. I think people saw we could be living in a
completely different world and that caused them to be depressed."
Párrafo 3: Baghdassarian dijo no me deprimí, pero entendió porque la
gente se deprimió.
A post by a user called Elequin expresses an almost obsessive
relationship with the film. "That's all I have been doing as of late,
searching the Internet for more info about 'Avatar.' I guess that
helps. It's so hard I can't force myself to think that it's just a
movie, and to get over it, that living like the Na'vi will never
happen. I think I need a rebound movie," Elequin posted.
Párrafo 4: Un poste por un usuario llamado Elequin expresa una
relación casi obsesiva con la película, dice que aquella vida como el
Na`vi nunca pasará.
A user named Mike wrote on the fan Web site "Naviblue" that he
contemplated suicide after seeing the movie. "Ever since I went to see
'Avatar' I have been depressed. Watching the wonderful world of
Pandora and all the Na'vi made me want to be one of them. I can't stop
thinking about all the things that happened in the film and all of the
tears and shivers I got from it," Mike posted. "I even contemplate
suicide thinking that if I do it I will be rebirthed in a world
similar to Pandora and the everything is the same as in 'Avatar.' "
Other fans have expressed feelings of disgust with the human race and
disengagement with reality.
Párrafo 5: Un usuario llamó a Miguel escribio sobre el sitio web de
admiradores “Naviblue” y dice que el contemplo el suicidio después de
la vista de la película y se sintió deprimido. Y miguel dice que no
puede dejar de pensar de todas las cosas que pasaron en la película.
Cameron's movie, which has pulled in more than $1.4 billion in
worldwide box office sales and could be on track to be the highest
grossing film of all time, is set in the future when the Earth's
resources have been pillaged by the human race. A greedy corporation
is trying to mine the rare mineral unobtainium from the planet
Pandora, which is inhabited by a peace-loving race of 10-foot tall,
blue-skinned natives called the Na'vi. In their race to mine for
Pandora's resources, the humans clash with the Na'vi, leading to
casualties on both sides. The world of Pandora is reminiscent of a
prehistoric fantasyland, filled with dinosaur-like creatures mixed
with the kinds of fauna you may find in the deep reaches of the ocean.
Compared with life on Earth, Pandora is a beautiful, glowing utopia.
Párrafo 6: La pelicula de Cameron, ha tenido más de 1.4 mil millones
de dólares en ventas de taquilla mundiales y podría estar sobre la
pista para ser la película más recaudada en bruto de todo el tiempo.
Ivar Hill posts to the "Avatar" forum page under the name Eltu. He
wrote about his post-"Avatar" depression after he first saw the film
earlier this month. "When I woke up this morning after watching Avatar
for the first time yesterday, the world seemed ... gray. It was like
my whole life, everything I've done and worked for, lost its meaning,"
Hill wrote on the forum. "It just seems so ... meaningless. I still
don't really see any reason to keep ... doing things at all. I live in
a dying world."
Párrafo 7: Ivar Hill fija en el foro de Avatar bajo el nombre Eltu.
Escribe sobre su depresión después de haber visto la película y que su
vida ha cambiado porque piensa que no tiene sentido.
Reached via e-mail in Sweden where he is studying game design, Hill,
17, explained that his feelings of despair made him desperately want
to escape reality. "One can say my depression was twofold: I was
depressed because I really wanted to live in Pandora, which seemed
like such a perfect place, but I was also depressed and disgusted with
the sight of our world, what we have done to Earth. I so much wanted
to escape reality," Hill said.
Párrafo 8: Hill vía correo electrónico explico sus sentimientos de
desesperación en querer evitar la realidad; el porqué su depresión era
doble.
Cameron's special effects masterpiece is very lifelike, and the 3-D
performance capture and CGI effects essentially allow the viewer to
enter the alien world of Pandora for the movie's 2½-hour running time,
which only lends to the separation anxiety some individuals experience
when they depart the movie theater.
Párrafo 9: Los efectos especiales de la película se muestran muy
realista y son capturadas en 3-D y los efectos CGI permiten al
espectador entrar al mundo ajeno de Pandora.
"Virtual life is not real life and it never will be, but this is the
pinnacle of what we can build in a virtual presentation so far," said
Dr. Stephan Quentzel, psychiatrist and Medical Director for the Louis
Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center
in New York. "It has taken the best of our technology to create this
virtual world and real life will never be as utopian as it seems
onscreen. It makes real life seem more imperfect."
Párrafo 10:La vida virtual ganó fe como en la vida real, porque se ha
tomado la mejor tecnologia para crearla.
Fans of the movie may find actor Stephen Lang, who plays the
villainous Col. Miles Quaritch in the film, an enemy of the Na'vi
people and their sacred ground, an unlikely sympathizer. But Lang says
he can understand the connection people are feeling with the movie.
"Pandora is a pristine world and there is the synergy between all of
the creatures of the planet and I think that strikes a deep chord
within people that has a wishfulness and a wistfulness to it," Lang
said. "James Cameron had the technical resources to go along with this
incredibly fertile imagination of his and his dream is built out of
the same things that other peoples' dreams are made of."
Párrafo 11: los admiradores de la película dicen que el actor Stephen
juega el papel de un infame coronel es el enemigo del Na`vi; pero Lang
dice que él puede entender porque la gente siente conexión con la
película.
The bright side is that for Hill and others like him -- who became
dissatisfied with their own lives and with our imperfect world after
enjoying the fictional creation of James Cameron -- becoming a part of
a community of like-minded people on an online forum has helped them
emerge from the darkness.
Párrafo 12: Para Hill y otros como él; les hizo ver el mundo
imperfecto de sus vidas después del gozo de la creación ficticia de
Cameron.
Within the fan community, suggestions for battling feelings of
depression after seeing the movie include things like playing "Avatar"
video games or downloading the movie soundtrack, in addition to
encouraging members to relate to other people outside the virtual
realm and to seek out positive and constructive activities.
Párrafo 13: Las Sugerencias de la comunidad de admiradores para
combatir los sentimientos de depresión; incluyen videos juegos o banda
sonora de la película, también de relacionarse con otra gente del
reino virtual y buscan actividades positivas y constructivas.
Participantes:
Saturnina Reyes
Norka Colmenares
Grisel Olivares