--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 12/17/06 10:14:59 A.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > ...If there were ever an apocalypse in the history of the > > Maya -- and herein lies the ultimate demoralizing irony > > of the movie -- it would be because of European contact. > > Funny, this is exactly what I walked away with after > seeing the film. I saw a hard cruel life among the > Mayan. Big fish eating little fish, survival of > the fittest, et al, which must have upset Cantu > But I saw that as normal life for that civilization > and saw the real Apocalypse as the clash between the > Spanish and Mayan civilizations. One sees the > Spaniards at the very end of the film and in no > way does Gibson convey that they were bringing > peace and order to anybody. We all know the history > of the Conquistadors. For Cantu to suggest that > Gibson was telling a story of an apocalypse going on > among Mayans and that the Spaniards were bringing peace > through Christianity was missing the point and exactly > opposite of what I saw.
Some things have been said here recently about "credibility," and that some who post here have it and some do not. It seems to me that MDixon's review of "Apocalypto," him having seen the film, might just have a little bit more credibility than the other "review" posted here recently, by someone whom I'll bet had not -- and *still* has not -- seen the film. 'Nuff said.
