For quite sometime this movie APOCALYPTO was banned to never seen by movie viewers. I wonder why. So when it became available for prime viewing have the chance to see it for myself.
APOCALYPTO is an epic almost historical account of what happened to the indigenous people, the Mayans in the Yucatan Peninsula. Wow! The cinematography is awesome.
Based from History, the Mayans had lost their civilization because of the arrival of the Spaniards as in they were brutally slaughtered as part of the Great Conquest. Not really!
In the movie APOCALYPTO, the Mayans had their own "civilization" and they have tribe leader and followers who were engaged in hunting and fishing as the source of their livelihood. They lived a very simple, ordinary lives. However, each tribe was being annihilated one by one by most powerful civilized Aztecs whose high priest believed in the higher god Kukulkan that human sacrifices must yield protection of their Aztec colony and will bring good harvest and bountiful crops and wealth for them. For human sacrifices they have to raid the tribes from the forest for they belong to the lowest society or the lowest pyramid rank. If you know what I mean. The women and children were spared from sacrificial lambs. The women were sold as slaves and children have to fend for their own survival. The rest of the male or female Mayans who can fight and stop the abduction survive but usually outnumbered by stronger but brutal enemies, they end up dead, bludgeoned, slaughtered, beheaded after they've been raped. Gory scenes! Almost like a horror story.
By the way this movie is subtitled. This movie could have win so many awards!!
I was waiting for the arrival of the Spaniards but they arrived too late!
Waiting for the turtles? Hey, waiting for the Mayans to populate the world?
They are the Mexicans of today and look at Mexico now... populated by Americans!
APOCALYPTO the movie was written and directed by MEL GIBSON, the very talented actor, multi-awarded for movies such as BRAVEHEART, PASSION OF CHRIST, LETHAL WEAPONS, etc, etc.
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