--- 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.
Um, he is a Mayan scholar, so I believe I'll take his word for the gross distortions of Mayan culture in the film.
