Much has been written of late about the many Avatar fans who are experiencing depression after viewing the movie. Thousands of comments on Avatar forums allude to a post-Avatar let down that spirals into depression upon walking out of the theatre and facing the reality that there is no way to live life inside the imaginary world of Pandora.
But why?
Why are people experiencing such crushing emotions after this movie? I believe the answer has to do with the God shaped hole in every persons heart. Physicist and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, the man who first proved the existence of the vacuum, said,
What is it then that this desire and this inability proclaim to us, but that there was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present? But these are all inadequate, because the infinite abyss can only be filled by an infinite and immutable object, that is to say, only by God Himself.
Blaise Pascal – The Penses
Or to paraphrase,
“There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every person, and it can never be filled by any created thing. It can only be filled by God, made known through Jesus Christ.”
Whenever you or I attempt to find fulfillment from a movie, or a book, or a friend, or sex, or booze, or drugs, or money we’re in for a disappointment. Whenever you or I attempt to find fulfillment from any created thing, no matter how attractive it may be, we’ll experience disappointment.
Jesus said,
“Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
John 4:13,14
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I saw the movie and I have to admit I was a bit sad after viewing it as well. I love my Heavenly Father, I think my sadness comes from a voice deep down inside that says,
“This is the way its supposed to be.”
I wonder if Pandora was what Eden was like. I wonder If we as Humans can get back into a right relationship with this planet and with our creator in my lifetime.
I think i was sad because the movie gave me a glimpse of Gods heart and as i look at this beutifull panet earth and how far we have come, I know we still have a ways to go.