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In Reply to: So what aspect of Mayan culture could have been expounded upon ? posted by oscar on June 26, 2007 at 12:05:29:
Religion. Social structure. Economy. Warfare. Aside from the chase, what the hell was Apocalypto about? And at that, a chase that anyone who made Second Class Scout would rip apart technically? A huge civilization that captures sacrificial victims but the happy forest dwellers are oblivious to it? Fleeting glimpses of a complex Mayan culture as we're taken through the market? That's it? Gibson just a provided few enticing crumbs to fulfill the exotic theme he promised, then moved on to a standard formula action movie.
I'd like him to have explored the irony of a culture that, on one hand, had the only indegenous written language in the Western Hemisphere, high art, and a sophisticated economy, but on the other had wholesale human sacrifice at the center of its value system and didn't perceive the wheel as a tool.
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- Geez...just pick one - DWPC 14:34:22 06/26/07 (1)
- Sounds like you want a National Geographic special than an action/adventure movie. - oscar 06:20:08 06/27/07 (0)
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