The word ‘LINK’ is the key for our future?

I went to a theater to watch ‘AVATAR.’ At first, I’ll let you tell the outline of AVATAR.

It’s the story in 22nd century. People spreaded their frontierism into outer space. Jake was ex-Marines, and had his legs broken fighting. Under spreaded frontiers for space, Jake stood in his brother’s shoes, which are the researches and negotiations for Na’vi, the aboriginal people living in the planet PANDORA.

AVATAR, the bodies which human being made from the DNA of Na’vi, are used to learn Na’vi and not to make them surprised. People can link their minds with AVATAR by computers and can operate AVATAR at will as long as they keep linking.

Jake got his new AVATAR body and was pleased to stand on the ground with his own legs because he’d been on wheelchair since his legs were broken.

It was only a few days that Jake got his own another legs with pleasure. He had to explore PANDORA to acquire a lot of data with Dr. Grace. During their study, Jake lost his ways because of the attack from terrible monsters. Thanks to his experiences in Marine, he survived from the attack and he tried to live in the thick forest in PANDORA. Unknown creatures kept attacking him. Finally, he had been surrounded by wolves things. Neytiri, the daughter of the chief of tribe, was the one who saved Jake. She at first didn’t want Jake to step into her worlds and cultures, but she found Jake was the chosen one. Jake made his first step to throw him into Na’vi. ‘Moving all Na’vi to another place in order to get precious iron materials which are under place they live’ was his priority.

However, things had changed. The more Jake knew Na’vi, especaially Neytiri, the more different feelings he got. He found Na’vi’s cultures different from human being’s. He understood PANDORA itself was like Earth Mother.

The time had come. Jake’s superior knew their diplomatic term ended and decided to strike Na’vi. Jake also, as the chosen one, decided to protect Na’vi. The war began.

I’m not so picky for movies, so I can enjoy almost movies. I enjoyed this AVATAR as well as other movies. There were two things sprung in my mind while watching this movie.

One is the movie ‘The Last of the Mohicans.’ And the other is the word ‘link.’

I know all of creatures in AVATAR are imaginary ones, but the thoughts of them, especially the thought for the ground, I associated native Americans with this movie. I’m not saying one side is justice and the other side is evil. People on both sides have their own justice and evil.

The word ‘link’, now that this word has become the common sense in creative worlds, such as movies, animations, novels. People can link their minds with others. Look back at koukaku kidoutai, Evangelion, the Matrix and so on. People in the animations or movies can transfer their minds to other things or other bodies. Did you know the comic in Japan ‘karakuri circus’ which Kazuhiro Hujita wrote. In the comic, people digitalized their memories and minds and transfer these electric data into other people’s brain.

In this movie, people (ofcourse they have to match their bodies from the DNA levels) can change their bodies by linking their minds. Actually, even now, Me, I put my minds or feelings into one of avatars on the Internet. Look at this ID ‘HoneyPotter’, it’s definitely an imaginary character without concrete fleshes, however, I always operate him and keep putting my feelings into him by typing my keyboards.

Maybe advance in medical technology and advance in linking technology between minds and bodies are simultaneously keeping their steps.

Motoko Kusanagi called ‘Major’, often said ‘I’ll dive his/her memories’ by connecting herself and someone else with lines.

Neo can see a lot of things digitalized like this.

Some people in the Evangelion believe ‘The Human Complementation Project’, which is to unitize all people’s mind. ‘The rate of synchronicities’ is the famous phrase in this animation.

The boy is treated as the one (what we call, the pod or something) in the story into which one character in the comic transfer their digitalized minds.