Jo Piazza
CNN
Tuesday , January 12th, 2010
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.
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.
“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.”
A post by a user called Elequin expresses an almost obsessive relationship with the film.
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