[BradyLS]

In the entire movie, there is one line that I find ironic that no one mentions. Just before Jake goes through the ceremony to become a fully-fledged Na'vi tribesman, he says (paraphrasing), "There is a saying among the Na'vi that one is born twice. Once into the world and once again into the tribe."

While I'm almost certain that Cameron lifted this from some Native American (or other native) culture, I took its meaning in the way C.S. Lewis might have intended when talking about the natives of Mars in his book Out of the Silent Planet. Or from the other lands that Aslan visits in other aspects in The Chronicles of Narnia.

After that, the movie took very predictable turns that have already been discussed here. But for that one moment, I thought that there was a chance that the movie would step in a real ground-breaking direction (for Hollywood).

[BradyLS]

I spoke too soon. I should have added that the Na’vi have a direct link to (Eywah.) If we could communicate with God and loved ones past through an organic “network” the way the Na’vi did, it would be a different world for certain. That’s a ground-breaking step I hadn’t seen in a movie (unless you count The Force).