Author: Jim34Jim34 Date: Sep 2, 2007 15:09
GIBSON'S MASTERPIECE AN ALLEGORICAL WARNING AGAINST UNRESTRAINED
TYRANNY OF GOVERNMENT, HUMAN SACRIFICE AND ENSLAVEMENT
Mel Gibson's Apocalypto is the most powerful film of all time, it is
packed with strong positive messages and it is the most polished,
iconic and awe-inspiring allegorical warning against the unrestrained
power and abuse of government that cinema has ever seen.
The plot of the film depicts Aztec warrior armies being sent on
missions to capture and enslave neighboring tribes and bring them back
to be used as fodder for human sacrifice. Set in Mesoamerica just
before Spanish contact, it depicts the decline of the Maya
civilization.
Gibson again sets the tyrannical power of the state against the family
and the rag-tag bands, it's what we witnessed in The Patriot and
Braveheart but the message is driven home even more authoritatively in
Apocalypto. In almost every case throughout history, the state is
brutal, murdering and oppressive and it is out to dominate and enslave
the only people you can trust, your family, your brethren, your tribe.
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