Apocalypto is...
Day Brown
tribal area owned by noble savages and threatening to ruin the ecology
in their endless search for resources in the hands of native people.
I read the film has been wildly & widely popular all over the world. Of
course, its all a fantasy; even today corporations are aware of how bad
press reduces profits. And as Steven Pinker in "The Blank Slate" and
LeBlanc in "Constant Battles" show, the "noble savage" is a myth. The
graveyards dont lie, and show they led short, brutish, violent lives,
and suffered 20 times the rate of violent trauma as seen in the graves
of temperate zone yeoman farmers at either end of the Eurasian land mass.
It is ironic that its greedy old whitemen who capitalized the film and
now are so much further enriched by pandering to the sensibilities of
poorly educated non-white masses. They show us how evil they are, and
then laff all the way to the bank.
It was a nice touch however, to put a guy who actually lives in a wheel
chair in a starring role about a guy in a wheelchair. And then the video
of him "in" an Avatar body that has feet that work, was really touching.
But part of the reason white guys run so much of the planet is tolerance
of criticism, adding even self criticism; there aint nothing you can
call me that will get my panties in a wad. I never have any excuse for
less than noble behavior, and dont pretend to be a saint. As one of our
founding Aryan fathers, Epictetus, said, dont claim virtues you do not
actually own.
When the hero tells the natives he is a warrior of the Jarhead clan,
none of these supposedly peaceful people who never war, ask him what a
"warrior" is. Thucydides said revolutions change the meaning of words.
And so today, "warrior" no longer means brave so much as foolhardy,
noble so much as misguided, but yet still capable of violence. But not
even loyal; the hero switches to join the natives.
And oh ya. Like Smurfs, these natives are blue. We cant offend the
sensibilities of anyone of any other color. Course, we dont see any
genitalia either; altho the females, with long legs and tiny tits look
like they are 11, whereas the guys, with thunder thighs and broad chests
all look to be 19. Hunks like that'd do well in any gay bar.
But to give credit where due, the artistry of the video landscape and
lifeforms is remarkable. There's no evident source for all the energy
displayed, but it is, after all, a movie.