Apocalypto
When the end comes, not everyone is ready
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Year:
2006 |
Rated:
R |
Runtime:
139 mins. |
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Starring:
Rudy Youngblood, Dalia Hernandez, Jonathan Brewer,
Morris Birdyellowhead, Carlos Emilio Baez, Ramirez Amilcar, Israel
Contreras, Israel Rios, María Isabel Díaz, Espiridion Acosta Cache,
Mayra Serbulo, Iazua Larios, Lorena Hernández, Itandehui Gutierrez,
Sayuri Gutierrez, Gerardo Taracena, Raoul Trujillo |
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Directed
by: Mel Gibson |
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Written
by: Mel Gibson, Farhad Safinia |
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Music
by: James Horner |
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Studio: Icon Entertainment
International, Icon Productions, Touchstone Pictures, Buena Vista
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In the spirit of Braveheart
by Joe De Matteo
HUGE
Mel Gibson is a great filmmaker.
Braveheart, The Passion of the Christ and now
Apocalypto are all brutally honest renderings of the
human experience, presented in an engaging, even
exciting way.
Humans are incredible, the human spirit
transcends time and place, and civilizations.
Do you buy that? I do.
Did a cave dweller love her child any less than a
mother in Cleveland in 2006 loves hers? When their
stomachs were full and there was no threat to their
safety, did a caveman envy his neighbor's wife or
position in the community any less than a guy living
in an apartment in the suburbs of Toronto?
I've always believed not.
Understand, I'm not saying that we've got 21st
Century people populating this film, we do not.
What we have is humans populating this film.
Humans that we can relate to. And that is what
makes it all so powerful. You will relate to
these people. Men, you will relate to the
joking and prodding. Women, you will relate to
the decisions that women have to make. |
| Mel Gibson's latest epic film is an exciting,
strongly presented look at the pre-Columbian Mayan
civilization.
In Apocalypto you will see the brutality of man,
the fear engender by a blood thirsty religion and
tyrannical government, as well as life lived in an
island of civilization surrounded by brutal and
beautiful nature.
You will also see the glorious human spirit.
Mel Gibson films celebrates the strengths and
weaknesses of the human spirit. Gibson always
shows us the unbridled lust of man: lust for life,
lust for wealth, lust for love/sex, and control and
power, as well as our, sometimes warped, sense of
the divine and the demands we suspect are made upon
us. He also shows us how the human spirit
screams for Liberty, Justice, and Peace, and self
(family included) preservation, even at the
expense of battle. This is a hard film to watch if your
squeamish. But, my friend, life is a bitch. |
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| It is not as brutal for as long as
The Passion of The Christ, but it is brutal, but the
excitement level may have you thinking it is.. Apocalypto is moving on other levels, too.
Fear, suspense, anxiety, all play a part in keeping
you at the edge of your seat.
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cinematography is nothing less than incredible. You will see things
you've never seen before, not only scenery, but a
way of life, a civilization. And you
will see a love story you've never seen before.
You will recognize your town, a little too close for
comfort, maybe, but you'll relate, nonetheless.
The story is a good one, the action is non-stop -
once it starts. It's a great film. I think many of you will
give it a HUGE.
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2006 - Joe De Matteo Mel Gibson's latest is
rumored to be an epic on the scale of Braveheart,
and that has me looking forward to it. A look
into life in the waning years of the Mayan empire, a
civilization much different than that of Europe in
the same period.
This could be fantastic. I'm hoping Mel
pulls it off.
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