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After 13 years of waiting, “Avatar“ finally has a sequel in the newly released “Avatar: The Way of Water.” The movie has stunning visuals, a decent story, and has received mostly positive reviews. It also grossed a whopping $2.024 billion worldwide, making it the sixth highest-grossing film of all time.
As with the first movie, the sequel is keen to highlight the contrast between peaceful natives living off the land and the violent invaders destroying their world. There’s a colonial angle here, but there’s an environmental one too. Both movies uphold living in harmony with Mother Nature as a virtue, and they decry human industrialization and exploitation of the environment….