hello all I'm a new member and ive been wandering where to start.
it occured to me that maybe for now its best to let someone else do the talking...
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Despite its extreme brutality Apocalypto isn’t just Gibson’s latest snuff film with a religious theme. The film is a morality play, and there are only two things one needs to remember to get a hint of the ugly moral intent behind Mel Gibson’s depiction of the Maya.
The first is that, despite Gibson’s vile portrayal of the Maya as a macabre cult of deranged killers straight out of Apocalypse Now!, there is no evidence that the Mayan people ever practiced widespread human sacrifice, and they certainly didn’t target the innocent hunter-gatherers and horticulturalists Gibson chooses to portray as the victims of a Mayan death cult.
Seeing Mel in the director's role in movies changed my perception of his artistic abilities, somewhat downward. He's an actor, with some talent I feel, but not a director with broad vision he's reaching to express. It occurs to me that it was Danny Glover who managed to find a glimmer of humanity Mel could borrow in that buddy cop Lethal Weapon trilogy they did, not much from Mel in that department. I contrast him to Clint Eastwood, who was also an action hero type who turned his hand to directing, and he comes up way short... er, that's I guess true in other departments as well.
It's nothing to me, personally, but this might be a better topic for the Open Space/Lounge/Feedback Forum. We tend to discuss current international affairs here.
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