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Apocalypto tagline: When the end comes, not everyone is ready to go
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| Directors: Mel Gibson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IMDB Rating: 7.9/10 out of 76,384 votes |
“Apocalypto” Movie Review
“Apocalypto” Plot Summary
As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw, a young man captured for sacrifice, flees to avoid his fate.
Amazing to watch Brutally brilliant!
Mel Gibson’s ‘Apocalypto’ is not a normal movie but a big make-up movie From the moment the film starts to the moment it ends you feel you are transported into the ancient Mayan civilization, seeing full body tattoos, body art, multiple piercing and jewelry It is a very exciting motion picture to look at, so strange to watch It has the esthetic that began to appeal and it fills you with wonder Our hero Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood) is a cunning hunter whose father requests him not to tell of what he saw in forest today He is warned to strike fear from his heart and not to bring it into the villageHis wife, Seven (Dalia Hernandez) is pregnant, and their small son, Turtles Run (Carlos Emilio Baez), live modestly in a village surrounded by a tranquil rain forest… After a night of frivolity, the peaceful existence of this small community of hunters collapses when savage outsiders begin torching and burning everything in sight killing most and taking away dozens left Going undetected, Jaguar Paw hides his wife and child in a deep, waterless well promising to return when the attack has passed However when he is captured by his fearsome aggressors, he is tied to a pole and marched with his friends and fellow villagers to a forsaken land, stone-built, where the earth bleeds A fortuitous switch provides Jaguar Paw with an unexpected opportunity to escape and get back to his family in peril But for that he has to make his way home through a killing field and a dangerous jungle, racing against sadistic captors hot on his trail ‘Apocalypto’ transports the viewers to a strange and unreachable world, to a civilization in decline, to an infernal vision of a city and its inhabitants, to shocking images of human barbarism which has always existed throughout the ages
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Brilliant storytelling
APOCALYPTO is obviously not historically accurate, anymore than the Myths of Odysseus (Ulysses), or Helen of Troy, or King Arthur are historically accurate
The film is not meant to be taken literally, it is told as a legend, and is a parable for the destruction of a culture from within by greed and blood lust
This is made clear with a quote which comes up before the story begins
I have never liked any of Mel Gibson’s other films, but APOCALYPTO is a brilliant film all the way around– acting, directing, cinematography, costumes, production design, you name it
It’s the one film Gibson should have gotten the Oscar for, certainly not the overrated BRAVEHEART.
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One of the best movies in MANY years!
I found the movie EXCELLENT, I’m still in shock, recorded in Veracruz (in many places) gives a very savage/natural environment to Gibson’s story, which it’s able to ‘take you there’ 5 minutes after the movie starts. I would need a vote scale of 11 for giving a fair vote to this movie
I’m from Mexico so I’ll try to add a very particular point of view, for a Mexican person to the movie, since I have read almost every comment here for the movie and (with all my respects) there are three points I’d like to mention
Please forgive my English mistakes
At first, even if it’s not really important, the movie plays (probably) in 1519, since it was in this year when Hernan Cortes reaches Veracruz coast (afther other expeditions, this time 3 years before the Aztec Empire was conquered by his army). Movie ends showing this moment indeed (or it really looks like!), so the story takes place before that moment, when Aztecs lived Moctezuma’s last years reign (I think Gigson tries to show him shortly during the human sacrifices scenes, like a man wearing a very elaborated clothes and a big quetzal plume, sit just behind the Sume Priest who performed the sacrifices in the sacred stone).
Second, a lot of people giving their comments here believe is the MAYAN civilization that where warriors conquer, take prisoner and perform the sacrifices and that’s not true, it’s the Aztec civilization. In almost every mesoamerican culture splendor years, territorial extension (conquering), cultural level and social organization reached a very amazing point, and the constant military enterprises were the key for controlling (and exploit, of course) other culture towns. Aztecs were probably the most brilliant at this point, the roman empire in mesoamerica. They exploited commerce, agriculture, the had universities and used a lot of tech and industry advances, but savage and brutal activities was an always present characteristic with this people, too. People submission throughout the force was very common. Mayan civilization had a very similar moment, but not in 1519 (Mayan civilization had their best moment more than 100 years before, but they just suddenly disappeared). In that year, the last Mayan survivors lived probably dispersed in small towns in the Tropical Woods and Jungles in Mexico’s southeast. Jaguar Paw and his village belong to this civilization
Third, in spite of these facts, I understand Mr. Mel Gibson was not interested in clearing facts because movie is not intended to be a History class, but it was a GREAT way for telling a story (filled out of mysticism and magic, of course) in a very unknown environment. This means, he just avoid the history facts in order to tell his argument. I really admire his determination for filming his movie in the Maya and Nahuatl languages, and for showing these cultures moment at natural, it’s a honor for my country. All my respects and my admiration. The BEST movie I’ve seen in YEARS.Best regards
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