They then pass a little girl infected with the plague who prophesies the end of the Mayan world. As the party approaches the Mayan city of the raiders' origin, they encounter razed forests and vast fields of failed maize crops, alongside villages decimated by an unknown disease. After climbing back to safety, he is killed by Middle Eye, eliciting anger from Zero Wolf, who threatens his fellow raider with death if he kills another captive without permission. On the journey, Coca Leaf, a badly wounded captive, almost falls off a cliff with the other captives dragged after him. Seven and Turtles Run remain trapped in the pit after a suspicious raider cuts the vine leading out of it.
The raiders tie the captives together and set out on a long forced march through the jungle, leaving the children behind to fend for themselves. When Middle Eye realizes that Flint Sky is Jaguar Paw's father, he kills Flint Sky and mockingly renames Jaguar Paw "Almost". Returning to the fight, Jaguar Paw nearly kills the sadistic raider Middle Eye, but is captured. During the attack, Jaguar Paw lowers his pregnant wife Seven and their young son Turtles Run into a pit. Huts are set on fire, many villagers are killed, and the surviving adults are taken prisoner. The storyteller describes a being who is consumed by an emptiness that cannot be satisfied, despite having all the gifts of the world offered to him, and who will continue blindly taking until there is nothing left in the world for him to take, and the world is no more.Īt sunrise the next morning, the tribe's village suffers a raid led by Zero Wolf. Later that night, the tribe gathers around an elder who tells them a prophetic story that cryptically foreshadows the events and themes of the larger story portrayed in the film. Flint Sky comments to his son that the visitors were sick with fear and urges him to never allow fear to infect him.
He asks for permission to pass through the jungle. The group's leader explains that their lands were ravaged and they seek a new beginning. While hunting in the Mesoamerican rainforest, Jaguar Paw, his father Flint Sky, and their fellow tribesmen encounter a procession of refugees fleeing warfare. The film was distributed by Buena Vista Pictures in North America and Icon Film Distribution in the United Kingdom and Australia.
The film was a box office success, grossing over $120 million worldwide, and received mostly positive reviews, with critics praising Gibson's direction, Dean Semler's cinematography, and the performances of the cast, though the portrayal of Mayan civilisation and historical accuracy were criticized. After the devastation of their village, they are brought on a perilous journey to a Mayan city for human sacrifice at a time when the Mayan civilization is in decline. Set in Yucatán, Mexico, around the year 1502, Apocalypto portrays the hero's journey of a young man named Jaguar Paw, a late Mesoamerican hunter and his fellow tribesmen who are captured by an invading force. This was the last film Gibson directed until 2016's Hacksaw Ridge ten years later. Here, the Indigenous Yucatec Mayan language is spoken with subtitles, which sometimes refer to the language as Mayan.
Similar to Gibson's earlier film The Passion of the Christ, all dialogue is in a modern approximation of the ancient language of the setting. All of the ethnic tribes and peoples depicted in the film were Maya, as Gibson wanted to depict the Mayan city built for the story as an "unknown world" to the character (Jaguar Paw). The film features a cast of Native American and Indigenous Mexican actors consisting of Rudy Youngblood, Raoul Trujillo, Mayra Sérbulo, Dalia Hernández, Ian Uriel, Gerardo Taracena, Rodolfo Palacios, Bernardo Ruiz Juarez, Ammel Rodrigo Mendoza, Ricardo Diaz Mendoza, and Israel Contreras. Apocalypto ( / ə ˌ p ɒ k ə ˈ l ɪ p t oʊ/) is a 2006 American epic historical adventure film produced, co-written, and directed by Mel Gibson.
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