Week 13: Apocalypto Film Review

Apocalypto is an action and adventurous film directed by Mel Gibson that released on 2006. This film is about Mesoamerican tribesman and the journey of the tribe’s life. They must escape the human sacrifice and rescue their family after the capture and destruction of their village by the warriors. Warriors are the people that have no mercy to other people and have attacks many tribes in order to conquer the place and the group of warriors that manage to get many tribes will be the strongest warriors among The story begin when the warriors led by Zero Wolf attack and subdue the Jaguar Paw’s village and all his tribes. Most of the villagers are dead due to the attacks by the warrior. Jaguar Paw manages to save his pregnant wife (Seven) and Turtles Run his only son. He put his wife and son in a deep hole and they manage to survive until Jaguar Paw came to save their life after Jaguar Paw escape from the warriors. Even though he manages to save his wife and son, deep down inside his heart, he is very sad to see his father died in front of his eyes killed by the warriors. The warriors are cruel and they have killed so many people including Jaguar Paw’s tribes. 

The warriors have caught jaguar Paws and his tribesmen. The warriors wants all the tribes that they manage to caught to be the sacrifice for the Maya civilization’s ceremony that the killing processed were held through the top of the pyramid. They slaughter the tribes and drink their blood. The Maya civilization has a bloodthirsty attitude that makes them craving for human blood. Through this film, we can see that the main character that is Jaguar Paw have a great and strong spirit to live and survive even though he have to face many obstacles. He had been tortured mentally and physically but still, he manages to kill all the warriors in his clever ways to trapped them.

 I adore and really like the character of Jaguar Paw because he is a good son, husband and a good leader of his tribes. He always remember his father’s advice that is no matter what happen, we must be brave and do not be afraid. He always trusts his instinct and brave men. After Jaguar Paw reunited with his family again, they want to forget about all the pain memories and they want to seek a new beginning. From my point of view, the story is really an adventurous film that is suitable for the adults to know about the history of Maya civilization. Apocalypto is an interesting film to watch and the people can gain good lesson from the movie. 

                                                                    

Week 9: Sanctum Film Review

Sanctum film is about a journey of a large number of groups that trying to explore Espiritu Esa’ala Cave, an underwater cave exploration site in Papua New Guinea. This film is based from the true story. The group members are Frank McGuire, Liz, J.D, Judes, Dex, old pros Luko, George and followed by Frank’s 17 years old son (Josh). Frank McGuire is in charge of the group and become the person that responsible towards what happening during the expedition. The other characters in the sanctum are Carl and his girlfriend (Victoria). Carl is the person that support and give money to the team members to do the expedition. The fight and the climax start when a tropical storm forces them to immediately out from the cave before all of them are drowning. The team members must struggle to escape from the unknown escape route to the sea. From the storyline when they want to save their life, the viewers can see who the characters are bad or good, for example the selfish one, the responsible character and so on. In a panic situation to save life, we can see that there are characters are selfish. I think this story give the moral values and the lesson to the viewers about the importance of team work.  

 From my point of view, I really dislike the character of Carl that can be categories as a selfish person. He only thinks how to save his life and his girlfriend’s life (Victoria) without thinking about the other group members. Carl and Victoria are the bad character in this film because they were the person that makes the journey to escape more difficult. Carl also left Frank and Josh, and go by his own way to save his life. It is very cruel. This story wants us to realize that the selfish attitude is not good. For example, Carl can survive, but when he escapes alone, he died because he does not have any experience like Frank. 

 The character that I like the most is Frank because he is very responsible leaders that really care about his team members. He always finds a way to save his members even though he risks his life. From the story, we can know how power is the love between father and son. At last Josh realize that his father really love him so much. Finally yet importantly, the story is a great film and suitable for all ages to see it and viewers must take good examples that have been shown in this movie. 

              

   

    Frank and his son (Josh)