The driver drove into a town and waited till all the thirsty villagers had gathered around to get their ration of water. One of these explosions involved a water truck. The day before we watched this movie, more than 500 people were slaughtered in four explosions in Iraq.
As such, the movie is a reminder that the barbarism we see in our world today is hardly anything new. It’s a raw look into the demonic barbarism of one particular culture at one particular place and time. One person in my group simply had to stop watching. Gibson doesn’t spare the viewer any of these horrors. The real difficulty is the level of psychological pain inflicted on people as they have to watch their spouses get killed or raped, or watch their children left behind in the forest as they are taken away as slaves. It’s not just that the movie is graphically violent – which it is. For all his faults, you can’t deny that Mel Gibson is a great storyteller.Īt the same time, it was an incredibly hard movie to watch. I found it to be a very interesting and engaging movie. It’s basically a story about the tribulations of a young Mayan man and his family toward the end of the Mayan civilization, just prior to the Spanish Conquest. The other night I watched a movie with my small group: Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto.
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