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Ok, now I’ll bite. Why does Hollywood entertain these obviously proletariat films even circling around? Performative self-deprecation? The rich saying “yeah. We kind of suck.” is some defensive move? It still shapes culture to be against the ruling class and subverts white supremacy. This is unabashedly an anti-settler film?
There’s no way people except us would watch this and see their sacred cows be the bad guys eating shit.
What are they playing at?
It's the "They killed someone, but they did it for a good reason" versus "They did it for a good reason, but they killed someone" sleight of hand.
You can adopt any concept and so long as you have total discourse, media and educational dominance like the modern West does, which prevents any serious counter-narratives from spreading, it will still serve your interests as long as you frame it correctly.
I haven't watched this latest instalment but I bet eventually, one of the dramatic narrative arcs will be that, caught up by the atrocities that the humans commit against the indigenous people, one of the protagonist's children/friends/loved one will allow their "emotions to understandably get the better of them" and start to "fight fire with fire" beyond the protagonist's moral comfort level. They'll have a conflict. The plot will then contrive its way to affirm that the character who took things too far was wrong and that the protagonist was right to be conflicted. Nia Frome coined this trope as "The Swerve"
Here's another on: I bet at the end of this box office revenue milk farm of a series, the indigenous population will either work out an understanding with the humans so that the latter can continue to exploit the land under an "equal partnership" or the last scene will be the humans realizing their fault, and one of them nodding to the protagonist before embarking on the departing ship, without the fight ever being taken to Earth itself.
No revenge, no reparations, no reprisals, no blowback. You don't need to forgive, but you must forget. Peace is contingent on the victim unilaterally promising everything that's happened is water under the bridge and the colonizer walking away in confidence that this chapter has been closed and a new leaf imposed (which is to say, the colonizer will get to enjoy the position of "victim" if the victim ever wants to unilaterally revisit the issue). That would be one of many ways in how to create a pro-colonial "anti-colonial" narrative.
I'm pretty sure Cameron has said the final film(s) will take place at least partially on Earth. A counter attack isn't out of the realm of possibilities. Also I think the direction they may go is that humans are subsumed into the N'avi life and culture by way of Eywa, the hivemind goddess of Pandora. We've never once had a single moment that justifies human society, other than like scientists just doing some science and medicine.