Apocalypto

[dalakhani]

Originally Posted by pgardn

Totally agree. Point 4 is completely off and whowever edits that editorial should have nixed it. Very violent movie but captivating. I did not take any of this to be historically accurate but I clearly did not get the impression given by the author concerning the appearance of the Spanish. And I really dont think Gibson meant it to be that way. And if he did, he screwed up that part big time.

To further the point, I am printing the opening quote from the movie:

"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within." -Will Durant

Basically, by providing this quote in the beginning and finishing with the spanish ships arriving in the end, he is pointing out that all of the fighting and treachery amongst themselves destroyed their "great" civilization and left them open to being "conquered" from the outside by a far worse enemy.