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...Makes you want to go back and take biology,” ABC anchor Charles Gibson said...
...Apocalypto,” Mel Gibson doesn’t try to persuade you to care about the fall of the Mayan empire. He’s more interested in painting the last bit of blood on that recently eviscerated human heart. The violence in “Apocalypto” seems obscene because Gibson does nothing to justify or contextualize it. The main character (Jaguar Paw, played by Rudy Youngblood) is motivated largely by the fear of having his skin peeled off, literally...
...past--that place where the mindlessly cruel and the idealistically aspiring meet in vicious conflict--has been good to Mel Gibson. It brought him Oscars for Braveheart and hundreds of millions of dollars for The Passion of the Christ. It satisfies his directorial bloodlust and permits him to traffic in easily read moral metaphors about the issues...
...with his universe. The natural order keeps magically providing for this good son, because his heart is pure. There's even a moment when the Spanish conquistadores appear, crosses prominently displayed. But Jaguar Paw rejects this display of muscular, official Catholicism--as has Gibson, who prefers a less mainstream version of the faith...
...Gibson loves operating in that historical territory where the record is sketchy and subject to mythic reinvention, which leaves him--and anyone else--free to fill in the blanks with whatever dubious ideological instruction he likes. You can also argue, less cosmically, that his works are no more than extensions of a very long line in epic, unconsciously risible filmmaking that imparts earnest metaphorical lessons about metaphysical topics, often enough from people who are painted blue or speaking a language that needs subtitles, or both, as in this film. Gibson is a primitive all right, but so were Cecil...