Apocalypto

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.

• loss of loved one
• maya civilization
• village
• solar eclipse
• affectation
• slavery
• tribe
• native american
• forest
• human sacrifice
• eclipse
• central america
• ancient civilization
• angry
• aggressive
• 16th century
• candid
• maya temple
• ancient language film
• absurd
• dramatic
• critical
• admiring
• adoring
• ambiguous
• ambivalent
• approving
• assertive
• audacious
• authoritarian
• awestruck
• baffled
• celebratory
• commanding
• defiant
• earnest
• empathetic
• enchant