Mel Gibson is clearly fascinated by violence and blood. Just as, even if implicitly, The Passion of the Christ showed how civilization was born in blood, so does Apocalypto show how civilization dies in blood.
The film opens with a quote: “A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.” […]
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My name is Steen Christiansen, and I'm an assistant professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. I'm working on transgressive aesthetics and the fields of cultural studies, film and science fiction.
I'm also interested in things that aren't, such as ghosts, dust, shadows, holes and so forth.
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