I believe that there must be many people like Xiaomei who have been curious about ancient civilizations, especially the legendary "Mayan civilization", and today Xiaomei recommends this "Revelation" to everyone, with a Douban score of 8.5. What you want to know may be found in it.
When the Mayan Empire was about to collapse, the grain harvest was not good. The priest ordered a large number of living sacrifices to appease the gods, and the tiger's claw (Rudy Yangbrad) became one of thousands of living sacrifices.
Before being captured, he hastily hid his young son and his pregnant wife in a dry well. In the end, he also successfully escaped with the help of his group of people, Dumb, and the family became the survivors of their tribe.
At the beginning of the film, it is the scene where they are hunting, using their wisdom to catch wild boars, although they are dressed in a simple way, but you can see that they have traces of civilization on them.
When encountering the same kind of people of different races, although they will be wary, they will not contradict each other within the acceptable range, and they are still friendly to each other.
However, the "baptism of blood" caused the Mayan Empire with an ancient civilization to gradually disintegrate, and the last thing we see should be that modern humans went to that area, and as for what happened later, it may be that tiger claws continue to live in the jungle with their wives and children.
The film was nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Makeup and Sound, and although it was an R-rated film, although some of the shots were uncomfortable, the shock it brought us was also very strong.
Director Mel Gibson won an Academy Award for Best Director for Braveheart, and in addition to starring in "Stormtrooper", "Tim Loves Me", "Patriot" and "Daredevil 3", he is a person who can act and direct.
The entire film is in an unintelligible language (Mayan), and the actors don't actually speak Mayan, but most of them are descendants of the Mayans, which ensures that the film is closer to the theme.
This action movie has a lot of differences from what we've seen before, and it can be called the "most primitive aesthetic of violence", without pistols, explosives, and cannons. There wasn't even a decent knife, just a few simple knives and homemade tools like mallets.
However, the beatings are all just as deadly, and the killings make people involuntarily afraid, including the protagonist Tiger Claw. He was also afraid of the unknown, but throughout his own experience, he slowly came to know himself and finally understood what his father meant by "don't be afraid."
When he jumped from the big waterfall, he shouted: "I am the son of Flint Stone, I grew up hunting in this jungle with my father, and in the future my son will also bring his descendants here to hunt, I am a hunter, this is my jungle."
As soon as these words came out, it also represented the true maturity of the tiger's claw, and he also realized that there was no father standing in front of him now, and he still needed to protect his wife and children and this jungle that belonged to them.
However, "suicide and murder" does not only occur in that barbaric society, even if we live under the modern civilized society, we have to follow the law of "survival of the fittest" and strive to survive on this battlefield without smoke.