Title: Original and thought provoking
Product review: This is a very good movie.Some people might complain that Mel Gibson's graphic use of violence, reminiscent of the Passion of Christ, is excessive but somehow with him, unlike Tarrantino for example, it just doesn't seem to be for the sake of it. The execution scenes in the Mayan capital are very gruesome and probably historically inaccurate but they enhance the movie and bring home just how savage human nature can be beneath the surface, in any culture and at any time.That was also the core message of Conrad's Heart of Darkness and I wondered when I watched this film if Gibson's choice of title "Apocalypto" and Coppola's "Apocalypse Now", based on The Heart of Darkness, was coincidental.And that's the irony of the ending. The arrival of the Conquistadors will bring about a greater genocide than anything the viewer has just seen, and all under the banner of the cross and Western Civilisation.This movie makes the viewer think, as well as shocking him. Worth Watching.
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