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Sunday, January 13, 2008

Apocalypto (2007)

Taken as a plain old action flick, it's fine, great even. Think about how it depicts pre-colonial South American cultures, and you might be troubled. Perhaps it's accurate, perhaps not. Did they really enslave other tribes, treating them horrifically, and behave so capriciously and superstitiously? And is Mel Gibson, an arch-nemesis to all sensitive things in this world, homophobe, anti-semite, and xenophobe the right person to produce such a movie and lend confidence to its accuracy and sensitivity to these cultures. I think the answer is no.

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