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Apocalypto, set in 16th century Latin America, is more of the problematic same. By dawn's early light, a brutish Maya war party falls upon an Edenic jungle village--murder, rape and enslavement their goal. Among their captives is Jaguar Paw who, having hidden his pregnant wife and firstborn, narrowly escapes--a little divine intervention here--having his heart cut out by the Maya high priests. He is then given the opportunity to run to save himself (and his family), which involves a high degree of athleticism and a lot of skill at improvising killing tools from such simple materials...
...analogous in his view to our own. It is given to worshipping false idols and values and, for all its military might, is rotting from within. Even the simple village, before it is destroyed, revels in irrelevant pleasure. What everyone needs is, well, a savior. And that's where Jaguar Paw comes in. He is, for all intents and purposes, dead not once but half a dozen times in this movie, yet always manages a resurrection. He even has a spear wound in his abdomen, not unlike a certain other divine figure. Most important...
...screaming, pillaging rape of a village takes the protagonist, Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood), from a lush jungle to a stunningly depicted Mayan mecca and back again, as he tries to escape his death-happy captors. A prophecy foretells great and ominous things for him, but his most pressing thought is the rescue of his small son and very pregnant wife from the bottom of a well-cave combo where they were hiding during the sacking of their home. Luckily, nature, the fates, and his supernatural ability to rip arrows out of his torso conspire to help him thwart...
When I was 5 years old. I was fearful I couldn't do anything else. So at age 11 or 12, I wrote to Jaguar that I wanted to work for them. Growing up in a small provincial town in Scotland, you didn't see any interesting cars, but you saw Jags...
...GLAMOUR AND FASHION FIT INTO A JAGUAR...