Another movie I feel compelled to write about in my blog. I had not even heard of Apocalypto till the time Arun told me that he had got us two tickets for it. We were in Chennai for a week and passing time after office hours was a big challenge. So our game plan was to exhaust every possible movie being screened in Chennai and which was in a language intelligible to us. But Apocalypto, as it turned out, wasn't. Its a movie filmed in Yucatec Maya, a language spoken in the Mayan civilization.
The movie is about a man's experience during the decay and subsequent end of a highly advanced Mayan civilization. The depiction of slavery and sacrifices practiced by the Mayans make the film brutal and gory to watch. But the movie has been shot in a way that makes every action seem realistic. The scenes in the forest, the hunting scene at the beginning and the waterfall scene to mention a few. The actors have done their best and none is a misfit. The prophecy of the leprosy infected girl adds an element of thrill and supernatural in the movie.
Mel Gibson has done a wonderful job as the director and for his choice of subject. His effort to present the long lost civilization and to showcase the gradual decline of highly advanced civilization is commendable.
As he says in the opening quote
"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it is destroyed from within"
The movie is about a man's experience during the decay and subsequent end of a highly advanced Mayan civilization. The depiction of slavery and sacrifices practiced by the Mayans make the film brutal and gory to watch. But the movie has been shot in a way that makes every action seem realistic. The scenes in the forest, the hunting scene at the beginning and the waterfall scene to mention a few. The actors have done their best and none is a misfit. The prophecy of the leprosy infected girl adds an element of thrill and supernatural in the movie.
Mel Gibson has done a wonderful job as the director and for his choice of subject. His effort to present the long lost civilization and to showcase the gradual decline of highly advanced civilization is commendable.
As he says in the opening quote
"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it is destroyed from within"
