I couldn't watch this movie.  I attempted to while I was pregnant with my first born and it was so traumatic for me I just couldn't stop crying and had to go and sit in another room and read a book to calm down half way through...  Haven't gotten the guts to try watching it again.



Ken Stuart wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I finally got a chance to see the movie "Apocalypto" on blu-ray, and I'm
> surprised that a search shows zero references to it in this list over the two
> years since it was first released.
>
> One possible summary is:
>
> Happy hunter-gatherer tribe (shown conspicuously carnivorous) is attacked and
> persecuted by unhappy, mentally unbalanced and environment-destroying
> agricultural corn-eating city dwellers.
>
> It seems to me that it was a giant commercial for Paleo vs Neolithic, were it
> not for the fact that the film making was so realistic, that the aforementioned
> persecution was depicted in a way that is quite horrific and brutal to the
> viewer.