When you say “Avatar”, the first thing that comes to your mind is the popular 2009 epic science fiction movie, directed by James Cameron. If you mention “Avatar” in Strumica, then the first thing that comes to your mind is the disco that makes the big parties for the people of Strumica.
Author: Katerina Topalova
The film is one of the most anticipated in the first decade of the new millennium with a budget of $ 237 million, it is among the most expensive movie projects of all time.
The disco in Strumica was just as expected to be built. It is unknown how much did it cost, but it is obvious that it is an expensive project intended for a larger group of people.
In appearance, only the name is the same for these two things, but if it is analyzed better, it is not so. It is science fiction in our country for a disco to be closed during a pandemic, at a time when dozens of people die from the virus and hundreds register as newly infected only in one day.
It is a science fiction to punish local sheriffs who party without following protocols.
The genre is preserved, it is science fiction to think more fundamentally and get out of the frame for quick profit.
“Avatar” in Strumica is only part of the series that we have throughout the country. Covid-19 is a virus everywhere, but in our place it is an intelligence test, a measure of awareness and a review of the quality of the social system.
Powerless institutions, bad politicians and irresponsible citizens. We play Russian Roulette with life. The pandemic revealed how little human life costs in the world, but in our country it turned out to be shared for free.
Pandemics all over the world have shown that man is the strongest and at the same time the most fragile creature.
This system must be built right from the beginning. Sound foundations must be laid. There are no privileges. Values must be built from the beginning, to know what must be first and what must be the last. To create a system of punishment and reward, to have understanding and to have no mercy.
Otherwise, Covid-19 will rule in our country until complete extinction!