Avatar and LDS Doctrine

The movie Avatar has several interesting links to Mormon doctrine. Perhaps one of the most obvious is the idea of life on other planets. Another is the idea that everything has a spirit. In Abraham, it says that everything was created spiritually before it was created spiritually, and Avatar plays on this theme. The movie also focuses quite a bit on the idea of resurrection. The main character is a marine who has lost the use of his legs, but through his avatar, he is able to use legs once again. The body that is created for him lacks the imperfections of his own human body. Avatar also loosely incorporates the idea that sexuality is a bond between only two people. Once a mate has been chosen, the two are mated for life.
Burton talks about a lot of these aspects, but goes even further in the resurrection concept. For him, resurrection becomes a theme when Jake is finally able to become one with his avatar, which I thought was an interesting concept. I thought it was interesting how he tied in the idea of the Hindu avatar and videogame avatars. The word itself seems to connote pretension, faking being something you are not, and yet in the movie, the pretension actually becomes reality. Jake becomes part of the culture of which he has only transiently been a part.