Watch Apocalypto Full Movie In the Maya civilization a peaceful tribe is brutally attacked by warriors seeking slaves and human beings for sacrifice for their gods. Apocalypto (2006) 95 subtitles downloaded 54398 times. Add subtitles. Subtitles for this movie.
'I see a hole in the man. He will be taking and taking until one day the world will say: I am no more and I have nothing left to give.' The words of an old wise man being intensely listened to at night around a fire in a forest/jungle community in the shadow of the Aztec civilizasion he is unaware of. You can view this movie purely as a great chase.
The ultimate 'bad day' for a young man with a young family. But of course the undercurrent of live and let live, always be respectful to neighbours does run through its two hours of non-stop shock and gore.
The big picture totally absent in Mel Gibson's collage of different cultures. The big picture so easy to see today, so difficult to express without being perceived as.
The words block the way forward. To seek a new beginning in the wake of near total obliteration is one thing; to seek a new beginning in a foggy haze of spurious emotional verbage is quite another. In the words of John Lydon 'ever get the feeling that you are being conned?' Apocalypto takes us to the human level away from calculations. Civilisation quels the masses with threats and impossible promises. Aztec quelling.
As in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner: Don't live your life in fear. Directed and produced by Mel Gibson, he also co-wrote the screenplay with Farhad Safinia, who was a co-producer. Set in Mesoamerica just before the arrival of the Spanish if you haven’t seen this film or heard about it before it is in subtitles as the dialogue is in Yucatec Maya.
When a Mayan raiding party attacks the village where Jaguar Paw and his family live his main priority is hiding his heavily pregnant wife and their son. But caught himself and with others he is taken away back to Mayan territory.
This is visually stunning and instead of using CGI the sets were built to give a more intimate and realistic feel, which works really well with this film. With what you would expect with raiding parties we see killings and people led off into captivity, as well as those being used for human sacrifice. This isn’t actually dialogue heavy, and the action and appearance on the screen tells the story more dynamically.
The actual plot isn’t new, and the same type of thing has been used many times before, but with the meticulous work that went into crafting the sets, having to employ so many extras and make-up artists and so on, it means that this really does create a certain, and rather believable ambience. This is quite violent and brutal in places, but so life would have been like for these people at such a time, but this also has a person telling an old myth, omens and superstition, and the kind of things you would expect from this period. Quite spectacular to watch this is something that you can easily immerse yourself in and enjoy.
Reminding us all as well that civilisations were all over the world, and were quite sophisticated despite the way they may look to us today. You have an audio commentary by Mel and Farhad, as well as a deleted scene here in the extras, but the best thing in this bonus section is the featurette, which goes into how this was made, the locations chosen and costumes and make-up, etc. Mel Gibson is defintely a maverick man of cinema, both as a director and, lately, also as an actor. He is always done his way, no matter what was the price to pay.
I must say that the story is so compelling, interesting, unique and strong (also from a visual and sound point of view) that you can get it even without following the subtitles (which is not such a hard thing to do, anyway). It is an antropological approach treated in a captivating and almost mainstream way, and this allows Mel to throw us into this world and time, getting used to their habits, traditions and dynamics, without losing any interest and engagement in the story. After all, this film is not so far from his epic, violent, basic yet genuine and bold view of life, which he carried on in all his filmography. Blu ray transfer is excellent.