A few notes

Ford 2021-10-20 17:23:24

This is a movie, not a documentary, and some historical facts are inaccurate. For example
1. The metropolis of Maya disappeared hundreds of years before the Spanish immigrants arrived. By 15 years, only small and medium-sized cities remained, not as large as in the movies.
2. The Maya culture in the movie may be confused with the Aztec culture. Such as large-scale public sacrifices, bloody aggression and so on. Historians generally believe that Maya people also use human blood to sacrifice, but there are still a few cases of murder and heartbreaking, and it is done privately by aristocratic rulers, not in the style of a national party.
3. There is also the confusion of age and region. Many of the murals on the walls are not what they looked like at that time (for the time being, I think it was Maya's heyday and decline period, which is about 800 to 1000 AD).
4. Maya people who are proficient in astronomical calendars should not be so surprised by the solar eclipse, and the film is a bit too shameful for Maya people for the plot.
In short, it was like shooting a story about Brother Bao and Sister Lin, but when the imperial concubine Yuan concubine gave birth to the palace daughter in Tang Dynasty clothes, Baoyu met the Japanese soldiers on the Lugou Bridge in 1937 on his way to a dilapidated family.

If you ignore these things, the movie is very exciting, the plot is very clear, the theme is very clear, the costumes are very beautiful, the music is very coordinated, and the actors are very natural. It is worth seeing.

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Apocalypto quotes

  • [Blunted is given the potion to rub on himself]

    Blunted: If this works... she won't bother me.

    Flint Sky: Your wife?

    Blunted: No, her mother. The old hag wants grandchildren.

  • [after a snake has bitten one of them]

    Middle Eye: He's fucked.