Please sacrifice responsibly.

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Gibson's masterpiece an allegorical warning against unrestrained tyranny of government, human sacrifice and enslavement

Mel Gibson's Apocalypto is packed with strong positive messages and is the most polished, iconic and awe-inspiring allegorical warning against the unrestrained power and abuse of government that cinema has ever seen.

The plot of the film depicts Aztec warrior armies being sent on missions to capture and enslave neighboring tribes and bring them back to be used as fodder for human sacrifice. Set in Mesoamerica just before Spanish contact, it depicts the decline of the Maya civilization.

Gibson again sets the tyrannical power of the state against the family and the rag-tag bands, it's what we witnessed in The Patriot and Braveheart but the message is driven home even more authoritatively in Apocalypto. In almost every case throughout history, the state is brutal, murdering and oppressive and it is out to dominate and enslave the only people you can trust, your family, your brethren, your tribe.



The film details the horrors of unrestrained government and how tyrants always seize the reigns of control, press on the nerve of power and abuse, dominate and terrorize populations. This is the norm of human history.

Apocalypto highlights the process of targeting the leading warriors of the enemy tribe, the tallest, toughest, meanest, would be the prime candidates for sacrifice and torture. This was done in an attempt to please the gods with the most coveted sacrifice and is the reason why indigenous populations in the region today are little over 5 foot tall on average.

Human sacrifice is a fundamental tenet of all historical dictatorships. It was practiced in ancient Germany, Greece, Asia and across the planet. The Mayans saw it as a normal function of society and would consider anyone who dissented as insane. Just as today, the police state, the surveillance state, torture and numerous other bizarre and abusive actions of the state are being normalized.

A telling moment in the film serves as commentary for the foreknowledge and exploitation of astronomical occurrences throughout history, where elite guilds versed in the secret wisdom of astronomy would anticipate solar and lunar eclipses and use them to hoodwink their populations into believing they held divine power, thus enlisting their enslavement and obedience under the threat that sun and moon would not return unless the people displayed total submission.

Parallels can be drawn to modern times where a population paranoid, fearful and uneducated can be brought to heel by manufactured monsters and imagined foreboding disasters in the name of the war on terror.

The film also illustrates how elites throughout history push bread and circuses, sporting and gladiatorial events, to distract the public from real issues and create false heroes to dislodge the natural mooring of man's moral compass and create a vacuum of good examples of how humans should function in a free society.

by Alex Jones & Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com

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I understand your analysis of this film. But how do you square this film and the embedded concepts with the personal beliefs of Mel Gibson, the proof of which is his behavior of total support for the Bush administration and the Catholic Church, my church, which totally and vehemently supports the Bush Admin.as well as the Church's unending and agressive support for the Republican Party despite all the damage and corruption this party has done to the American people and the citizens of the world. Just how do you square this huge bifurcation.dichomoty of ideology as both the Catholic Church and Gibson are viciously and aggressively devoted to the exact opposite of the principles the you say are illustrated in this movie, which I have not seen.
Though not supported by Gibson or the Pope both of whom only support the Rethug party, please
PRAY FOR PEACE

Bob DAmico
Cleve, Oh.

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I wouldn't go see any of his films if he paid me to go. He is an irresponsible idiot, and his movies totally suck.

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That has to be the funniest SNL thing I have seen since TV funhouse's Christmastime For The Jews aired Dec. 17th 2005.

Maybe they can get Andy Dick on the show again or better yet Benjamin Netanyaho to host.

SNL has ceased to be a political pundant. Instead they just regurgitate pop culture. Not even worth watching save for the few news sketches.

They are going to have Justin Timberlake as host and musical guest. That is going to be one sorry show. WTH is a sexyback? Guy can't even sing.

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Lame.

SNL is neither relevant or entertaining, and has not been for well over a decade.

This isn't satire... this is shooting fish in a barrel. Whats next? A 5 minute bit where one of the SNL hacks plays Michael Richards repeatedly going off on his audience getting more and more "crazy" each time?

Fart jokes may be funny... but this flatulence is not.

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