(YAHOO! MOVIES) — Since it opened last week, James Cameron’s much-anticipated film “Avatar” has won praise from movie critics and been a juggernaut at the box office. But some who have seen the film say that it contains hidden messages that are anti-war, pro-environment, and perhaps even racist.
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Some prominent members of the media who screened the film certainly took note. In a glowing review for the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert noted that Avatar “has a flat-out Green and anti-war message” that is “predestined to launch a cult.”  Meanwhile Ben Hoyle, writing in the Times of London, noted that the film “contains heavy implicit criticism of America’s conduct in the War on Terror.” Further, Will Heaven of the Daily Telegraph said that the plot line involving people of color who wear “tribal” jewelry while sporting dreadlocked hair being saved by a noble white man gave the film a “racist subtext” that he found “nauseatingly patronising.”

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