Apacalytpo

I have been waiting for the time so that I could give my review on Mel Gibson's Apacalytpo.

Apacalypto, a tale of a small Mayan tribe that is brutally taken over by the larger more advanced society of the Mayan's, somewhere presumably in the Yucatan Peninsula. The tribe is a small group just making a living off the land that sustains, however, as in all major society a resource was needed, not farm land, people.

As captors of the highly skilled Mayan warriors that invaded them, the tribe is taken back in a daisy chain of bondage back to the city. The warriors themselves are shown in a small light as human, but devoid of feelings for anyone but their own.

The human commodities are taken back to the once great city and are sacrificed in a ritual that I have not seen reinacted before. As grotesque as it has been known for, Mel Gibson brings it to the screen.

Following this, an eclipse begins and the sacrifices end. But the movie hardly ends there. I cannot go on, but to say it was fun to watch.

Over all I think Mel Gibson's theme of the movies shines through. An advanced but uncivilized society, prays on there neighbors as a resources, slaves, human sacrifices, and whatever. As seen in the movie, they Mayan's are indulgent, but plagued by famine and disease and care only of control of their society by religion to oppress and destroy. The lesson of this movie is clear-environmentalism and socialism.

Though we see ourselves as different, there are hints of our life today in the extinct Mayans. Can we inhabit this planet without over indulging and outsources our tasks to underpaid, poorly cared individuals or migrants? Do we need to migrate to other parts of the world for resources as oil, minerals, food, commodities.

Though we do not see the harm we induce my such wanting, others abroad suffer and die, in the name of what; religon, politics, indulgence?

Mel Gibson's movie was engrossing, entertaining, and a mirror of today's society.

If we do not get civilized, we may end up just like the Mayan's, extinct.

-xxx's

Delilah