Name: Jhon Carl Capangpangan

Grade & Section: ABM 12 DOLLAR

REACTION PAPER ABOUT THE MOVIE APOCALYPTO

Violence and warfare have already existed in ancient times. Tribe versus tribe, race against
race. Many were killed, abused, and captured. Women became slaves and prostitutes, other tribes
beheaded captured men, and many children were murdered and abandoned. Hence, after all those
cruelty and blood predicament, what people usually do is to move on and start a new beginning.

The movie Apocalypto is distorted and inspired by the culture and belief of the Maya
civilization. It was published in 2006 by the screenwriter and co-producer Farhad Safinia and directed
by Mel Gibson. Shot in Yuctan, Mexico, and the settings set to the last 1500s. Moreover, the native
dialogue used in the movie was Yucatec Maya language, and it lasted about 138 minutes. In the film,
Jaguar Paw, the protagonist, lived a simple and happy life together with his neighborhoods. Not until
it was invaded by the command of the antagonist Zero Wolf to get some young and beneficial women
to become slaves and men to serve as a sacrifice to their god. They destroyed the village and killed
many people, but the wife and son of Jaguar Paw managed to hide from a dry well. Among the
people captured, only Jaguar Paw managed to escape, but before that, he encountered numerous
inhumane challenges that made him stronger and killed those people who captured him.

Apocalypto movie is a meditation and a thought of fear. It takes us with the harsh reality of
having to discuss our potential destruction or continued presence in such world where the most
monstrous cruelty will appear not mainly from the wild beasts’ world, but from the common hands of
other human being, even those people have common culture and language. In most movies that are
of action type we experience aimlessly tense that no injury must come to someone who is pursued. In
Apocalypto, the central character is teaching the audiences how to negotiate and discuss fear so that
if the death were to come it is accepted as well as living. And finally that running away and running
toward may look alike, but are not. Apocalypto makes the point that the way out of fear is to go
through it. Flint Sky and a Holcene warrior who is bitten by a poisonous snake both die without fear.
They do not run from it or try to avoid it. Fear is a boogeyman but it can’t get a true hold on you if you
know who you are and where you belong. Jaguar Paw stays with his fear and uses it to get himself
back to where he has a chance for survival. He knows that the minute he ignores his fear or gives in
to it, he’s finished.