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After the brutal attack leaves several dead and more wounded, surviving adult prisoners, including Jaguar Paw, are taken to a nearby city to be sacrificed.
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Having begun with a view of tranquil yet primitive village life, the movie quickly descends into the chaos of the violent attack on the village. The rulers of the Mayan kingdom believe that human sacrifice and the construction of more temples is the only way to ensure their continued prosperity. The essential plot of the film centres around the journey of a young Mayan hunter named Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood) whose village is attacked by head hunters. Perhaps director Mel Gibson could have been warned that replacing the word 'civilisation' with 'movie' would help explain what would happen to Apocalypto at Oscar time, and at the American box office, after his drunken anti-Semitic rant sullied his image in the national and global media.įilmed in the brutally violent style that is a Gibson trademark and made in the native Maya language, this film may be the most energetic and disturbing (yet unique) experience cinema audiences will have all year. A pocalypto begins with a quote by Will Durant, 'A great civilisation is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.'