Like The Passion, Gibson's new film does not shy away from gruesome violence, including scenesof human slayings and beheadings.
The criticismcalls to mindreactions to Gibson's2004 epic The Passion of the Christ, an oftenviolent depiction of the final days of Jesus Christ that was accused by some of being anti-Semitic, even beforeGibson's much-publicized outburst against a Jewish police officerin California earlier this year.Īpocalypto, which has drawn largely favourable reviews, tells the story of a young man struggling to flee the crumbling Mayan empire after being chosento becomea sacrifice to the gods. "The director is saying the Mayans are savages," Lucio Yaxon, a human rights activist, told the BBC. and Canada- say the film presents an unflattering portrait of theculture. Mel Gibson's latest bloody epic, much like his last, is angering some members of the culture it depicts.Īctivists in Guatemala, once a part of the American Mayan empire that provides the setting for Gibson's Apocalypto- due for release this Friday in the U.S.
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