Two elements dominate the film: violence and the fear of violence. However, the events and details that have grown up, so to speak, around this central story inevitably reveal the director’s attitude toward the world.
And that does contain visually audacious and exciting moments. What does Gibson wish to tell us with his film? He explains to interviewers, perhaps not disingenuously, that the genesis of the film was merely the desire to create an exciting and sensational chase scene. Will he evade them? Will he reach his wife and family in time to save them?
After a natural miracle barely saves Jaguar Paw from this fate, he manages to flee, wounded, into the jungle. In the main temple the prisoners are to be sacrificed in an effort to appease the angry gods. One young man, Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood), manages to hide his pregnant wife and child in a well before he too is captured and taken away.Īfter a terrifying journey, the warriors and their captives arrive in a large Mayan city in an area suffering from drought and plague. A peaceful village is ransacked and burned to the ground by a group of warriors, its inhabitants killed or carried off as captives.
The drama unfolds in the last days of the Mayan civilization in Central America, as imagined by Gibson and his screenwriter, Farhad Safinia, on the eve of the arrival of the Spanish. What are we to make of Mel Gibson’s extremely violent Apocalypto? It seems less an artistic event than a social-psychological phenomenon. Apocalypto, directed by Mel Gibson, written by Farhad Safinia
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