remember looking at this poster a lot in 2006, but never appealed to me, on saturday, anand said lets see apocalypto, n it happened. 

mel gibson takes you into a whole aboriginal world, of native american tribes and their life.it’s the story seen through the eyes of a tribesman, jaguar paw, who is also the lead..

their forest, their village, their ways of hunting, living, their families, village elders and their stories, etc… is what we watched out for.. it is shot in the native american ‘mayan’ language and hence subtitles need to be on all the time. this by the way adds to its exotic flavour..

absence of civilization – translates into inhumanness. a more prosperous tribe, comes and invades them, kills some of them and take them as captives to their city. here, some are sold as slaves, some are used to sacrifice to their diety to pray for rain etc… jaguar paw then manages to escape and is chased by the tribesmen, till he defeats them one by one…story is simple. intricacies in the culture, evident from their dialogues, their concepts and common sense passed on to each others make for some curious observations.

rating : there are some movies which are ‘watchable’ due to the cinematography n the hardwork behind the costumes, places, graphice – just like chronicles of narnia. this is one of them. not bad.