"Apocalypto" really shocked me. This is the first time I've seen a Mayan civilization-themed film. It's curious and cruel and bloody. Mel Gibson is a director who is keen to make movies epic, including his "Braveheart". "The Passion of the Christ" and "Bloody Hacksaw Ridge" are all full of tragic heroism, brutal and bloody scenes, and deep reflections on life and death, religion, and belief. This movie is essentially a revenge story. The Mayan rulers were powerless in the face of famine, starvation, and infectious diseases. They could only turn to the so-called sun god to control the people and stabilize the society with their beliefs. And the way to pray to the gods and worship the Buddha is to kill people and behead their heads to sacrifice to heaven, which is savage and ignorant, causing the fragmentation of countless families and the deaths of many innocent tribesmen. When the heads rolled down from the high platform of the altar, every time they fell, they were accompanied by the excited shouts of the dark crowd below, and I felt disgusted and frightened. Superstition is a curse. No so-called god can save you. Only by correctly understanding the world can we better transform the objective world. As an atheist, this movie made me even more convinced of my belief in science. At the end of the film, the end of the Spanish colonists' powerful ships and cannons landing on the American continent is really a stroke of genius. Behind the jokes and ironies is a huge disaster. The Maya's internal cannibalism and the invasion of more developed civilizations directly ruined this one. The prosperous Mayan civilization of yesteryear, from which point Mel Gibson's Apocalypse has succeeded
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