Apocalypse film biography

His next film in this direction - “Apocalypse” - grabs one week from the alleged history of ancient Mayan civilization, or rather some of its representatives, most of the film with different goals moving through the surrounding jungle. From the very beginning of the film, as soon as you translate the spirit from the sudden chase of the tapir, you feel like the viewer of the Discovery channel, telling about the life of the Indians in staged situations.

In fact, the ethnographic part of the film Gibson was a success: both the life of a small tribe in the jungle and a huge human anthill in the city of Maya are shown with an amazing degree of detail. And even a lot of shown only assumptions, but such is the specificity of pseudo -historical cinema. Visually, the "Apocalypse" is divided into three parts. In the first of them, we are talking about the already mentioned small Indian tribe, his life and morals.

Of the sloppy jokes over a comrade with a romantic name of the stupid end, we learn that in thousands of years people practically do not change, and looking at piercing and scars on dark bodies, we undoubtedly recall one of our acquaintances. Yes, it seems that for many years that have passed from the events described, people only began to dress a little better, but at home they began to build more restraint, and the human essence remained unchanged.

It remained unchanged, among other things, in the eternal desire for war and the humiliation of the weaker. With the invasion of the quiet measured life of the tribe of militant “citizens”, the second, most saturated part of the picture begins, where the most cruelty and mercilessness of the Mayan people is shown in the smallest details. The city life of the representatives of this once great civilization is quite interesting.

Contrary to all romantic ideas, life against the backdrop of the Azec pyramids by modern standards was just a vile: crowds of people, stench, poverty, anger in their eyes, bloody spectacles and entertainment-it is unlikely that such associations arise in the mention of Mayan. But it is precisely these episodes, probably, they most accurately show the position of the director, who, after the frantic commercial success of the “passions of Christ”, received a certain freedom of expression.

Now he may not go blindly on the audience expectations, which, as you know, sometimes very, very significantly limit the self -expression of the creators of any form of art, but realize their creative plan. Naturally, to a certain limit. The third conditional part of the film turned out to be very dynamic, reminding at once and “Run, Lola, Run”, and “Walk”, and something else.

In fact, the entire last third of the film is an ongoing chase that does not know fatigue, stops and mercy, and this is no less spectacular than all the previous parts. Naturally, according to the already established tradition, all the heroes of the picture speak exclusively in the Mayan language. The very practice of using extinct, either rare and ancient languages ​​is quite dubious, but the fact that the translation is given in the form of subtitles, undoubtedly, can be attributed to the merits of the film.

And for sure, someone really wants to reduce the number of overly anatomically naturalistic moments, such as: the rally of bodies, chopping off heads, mountains of tens and hundreds of blue, decapitated corpses, blood rivers and the like, not inferior to some “saw”, scenes in their naturalism. But this is all the specifics of the cinema in the style of Gibson - frank, merciless and claiming realism.

Despite the fact that the “Apocalypse” is most reminiscent of the BBC film about the Aborigines of Central Africa, it is very clearly felt by the hand of American cinema, where without it. There are all signs of classical stories about how one person is more cunning, faster and stronger than all his enemies combined. A sort of superhero in a loincloth. By the way, the looted dressings themselves in the Apocalypse play the role of snow-white in any circumstances of the teeth of the heroes of Hollywood films about modernity: like the even rows of pearls shining with porcelain, even the last poor from the village forgotten by God, the murdered causes of Mayan are not susceptible to any external influences: Dirt, water, paint, fights, blood - they all do not care!

Of course, do not forget that in real American films shots never fall into the main character. The best Mayan warriors from hundreds of meters can get a spear into the eye of a moving target, or calculate the trajectory of the dormitory of the cobblestone with an accuracy of a centimeter, but a accurately shoot from onions along the target that is needed the most, already higher than their capabilities.

However, we are used to it, and we are almost not surprised. Just as we are not surprised at the happy end. That is, of course, everyone is happy and satisfied that the bad ones got what they deserved, and the good ones will live happily ever after, but at heart each of the audience of the Apocalypse, probably, experiences some kind of annoyance: “Well, was it really all for nothing?All this is stress and nerves, atrocities and inhumanity, the orphaned Kitten Jaguar, finally?

And what to do, these are the laws of the market. And in fact, the film is similar to some mixture of Senkevich’s unforgettable program “Around the World” and the sensational “Hell of Cannibals” at one time, having absorbed all the best from them.

The film itself is beautiful and interesting, but it must be borne in mind that people with weak nerves and excessive susceptibility to the type of blood liters refrain from viewing. But in general, a rather expected product at an expected high level. Now we will wait for the story of Atlantis from Mr. Gibson - everyone cannot wait to find out what really happened.