“Is Avatar: The Way of Water” split by James Cameron's contradictory instincts?


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"The Way of Water" sounds like a memoir by a celebrity urologist. The Navi inhabit a moon called Pandora.

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whose inhabitants have azure skin, luminescent freckles, and magic ponytails that they plug into plants and animals.

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