7 Most Unexpected Ways Movies Had An Impact On Real Life

2. Avatar Makes Everyone Clinically Depressed

--> Avatar No matter it's many flaws, you'd be hard pressed to find anybody who could object to the beauty and wonder of Pandora, the world Avatar takes place in. But while most viewers probably forgot about the shape of the trees or the noises the Na'vi make by the time they got home, others...did not. After the movie opened, there were several reports of fans feeling depressed because they would never be able to visit Pandora in their lifetimes. These fans expressed disenchantment with humanity in general, and some went as far as to even report suicidal thoughts. The matter got so serious that Dr. Stephan Quentzel, a psychiatrist and Medical Director for the Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, commented on the fact, explaining that depression set in because the film's CGI technology was so incredible that real life could never hope to match it. Well, thanks doc. -->
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