Description
Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate break to return home and to ultimately save his way of life.
On the other hand, there are a lot of historical assumptions and shortcomings.
1. There is a reference to both the Maya and Aztec peoples. Although they are completely different peoples and cultures.
2. The warriors were not naked, most had cotton armor. That is, armor and pressed cotton fabric, treated with something. It was light, fought well against moisture, sweat and protected it against arrows and sliding blows of cold weapons, such as knives.
3. The Maya and Aztec peoples were not dark, as described in the film. For example, the Maya knew mathematics and astronomy perfectly. Therefore, it was impossible to scare them with an ordinary solar eclipse.
4. In the cities there were decent-looking several-storey buildings-huts.
5. By the time the conquistadors landed, the Maya peoples were practically no longer in Yucatan. And the three Aztec tribes and their cities were different. The peoples of Meshik, Akolua and Tepaneki are not like the characters in the film.
6. These tribes had writing, history, advanced medicine and mathematics at the time of the invasion. There were schools. There was a class system in place. There was slavery, but there were humane conditions of liberation.
7. The cities were clean. Tenochtitlan, the city of the sun, was white and bright. A lot of gold, which was then plundered by the conquistadors of Cortez. Well, where is it shown in these cities?
To summarize. Mel Gibson, as a director and a true Catholic, sought to show in the film how badly the Indians who did not believe in Christ lived before the landing of the whites.
And this, to put it mildly, is not true.
Despite all this, the film is excellent.
Now I decided to reconsider, and everything is also interesting, although I remember the plot