among all the star in the moviedom and mel gibson be a special one . i can hardly do a summary for his cinematic career cause his work be really hard to categorize and may i say in a mess . however and he always manage to surprise me . however controversial his film may be and they have reason which i be willing to accept . this film be a milestone to be record in cinematic history for it ancient theme and unprecedented language and insufferable content and all other pleasant enough aspect of film making . living in this modern world and we hardly bother to ask what we be and where be from . we know darwin theory . we know life change and be not easy . but we never know in detail what happen to our ancestor a individual . we just sum them up into a few paragraph on some history book . this film be about maya and yet it also apply to every other ancient civilization . it throw me into the ancient jungle and carry me on this incredible journey of knife and arrow and ignorance and intelligence and death and birth and love and hatred . despite all the blood and tension and i have to admit the primitive do a good job to carry on the human evolution at least and we be here with flesh and blood . i have this imagery that if the whole evolution thing be a huge army and all human be just allocate at random by god into some squad categorize by era and and i ask myself and if my soul happen to be allocate into the mayan squad and would i survive and have a life in peace and love . it a rather frustrating question since i will never know the answer . well and most possibly the answer be negative . anyway and we do not necessarily need the answer and but we do need the consciousness and introspection because when we project ourselves against the primitive background and we can always discover new thing in our body and soul . in that case and this film itself be an apocalypto lest we forget how different yet common we be compare to our ancestor .