Reel beauty

Avatar's visual wonders are all borrowed from creation | Janie B. Cheaney

Photo illustration by Krieg Barrie (Avatar photos: 20th Century Fox)

Those who haven't yet seen Avatar, the cutting-edge, 3D fantasy that's on the fast track to becoming the top-grossing film of all time, may want to think twice. Besides setting them back $12 to $20, the movie might leave them depressed and suicidal.

At least that's the experience of some who find it hard to adjust after emerging from the computer-generated paradise of "Pandora" into the parking lots and Burger Kings, chaos and clutter of the real world. On at least one fan site, a topic thread with the title "Ways to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible" has received over 1,000 posts, as fans air their feelings of severe letdown. "When I woke up this morning after watching Avatar for the first time yesterday, the world seemed . . . gray," wrote Ivar from Sweden. "It was like my whole life, everything I've done and worked for, lost its meaning." (Ivar is 17.)

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