The Movie in itself is visually a very beautiful Movie but it’s quite disturbing with the quantity of deaths and corpses all over the place and lots of blood, it’s not for the squeemish.
The general theme of theMovie is set in either Aztec or Mayan times (prior to the Spanish Conquistadores not sure which one) and talks about the period shortly before the Conquistadores arrive who would eventually wipe them out both with guns and disease and eventually enslave and colonize the entire region for their gold.
At that time the Aztecs were quite an advanced society, and although violent no more violent than the Spanish Inquisition or the Crusades. The Movie depicts them as violent to the scale and level of mass genocide with scenes of litters of corpses and there is a strong undertone of a Civilazation rotting due to human sacrifices, oppression and cult like idol worshipping. The villains of that Empire are all stereotype bloodthirsty whacko’s. Although it is not explicit, there is a strong undertone that the arrival of the Spanish Conquistador ships harbour the beginning, a kind of justification about why such an Evil Empire like the Aztecs needs to be torn down.
Mel Gibson has recently been more and more religiously active after recording the phenomenal Movie the Passion of Christ and also got caught once blaming Jewish people for problems in the World, certainly in keeping with the whole Christian theme, even though he was drunk, they say when drunk you speak your truth.
Although the Movie is "fiction", history has recorded the brutal enslavement of the Spanish (and eventually Portuguese) for the Gold of the Aztecs and literally wiped out an ancient culture and burnt those on the stake who would not convert to their religion.
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