have some mexican indian blood in me and i have always be interested in what i could read about the aztec and mayan and others . but never do i achieve a elaborate a vision in my head and try a i might and a mel gibson have with the beautiful apocalypto . be it accurate . i have more than just strong doubt in at least one case and but like all good fiction and it probably tell more truth and despite it inaccuracy and than a dozen scholarly tomes . the movie be engross and and even more difficult and plausible and quite evocative . i would have bet any amount of money that this movie be impossible to make . and though some have complain that the film end involve an historical inaccuracy and i think there be more than enough reason to put it in . there a strong story that remind me of other third world folklore i have read and only well . in a lot of way these people could have be north american indian and but somehow that not much of a criticism . and gibson recent pr problem only highlight and for me and how it take an australian reared actor to make an exciting film about native before columbus . clearly hollywood be incapable of even conceive of such a movie and much less bring it brilliantly to life . hollywood have an agenda and very narrow perspective . it agenda have no room for illuminate the humanity of non westerner and and there too much rely on the same old set of sensibility and intuition . i think if hollywood be up in arm it ought to be because gibson be make them look inept . but a to this particular subject matter and there no doubt in my mind that what fascinate most anglos about the aztec and the maya be the idea of human sacrifice . gibson depict the ritual a have an element of frenzy to it and and he may be right and but what be more convincing to me and at least and be his idea of what a village raid must have be like . his point by point reconstruction be pretty compelling and and i be quite sure he could make some early american military raid on indian village so vivid and unforgettable that grown men would cry . i only hope he do and but a to this film and i would have depict the human sacrifice with a nod toward a notion most anglos find completely foreign and namely that these people understand that gain often entail pain and and they be willing to pay the price . be it really so unreasonable that these people think god might want them to create pain and and not just endure it and to gain his favor give that life entail so much struggle anyway . that willingness to endure pain clearly survives today and not the desire to create it in others and and that the only point i would have add to this wonderful film .