Apocalypto (Mel Gibson 2006)
Posted on January 30 at 12.55, 2007 by Eric Mahleb
I wonder if Lars Von Trier and Mel Gibson have ever met. And if they have, I wonder if they got on well, if they talked about the human condition and the suffering that we must endure as we go through life. Or perhaps they couldn’t stand each other, Von Trier’s nihilist and atheist outlook clashing with the possibly Jansenist (see The Absolute Realism of Robert Bresson for more on this topic) and definitively radical religious conception of life that Gibson has. But at least, maybe they managed to exchange a couple of words about sado-masochism.
What goes on in the mind of Mel Gibson? That’s a question on a lot of people’s lips these days. I clearly don’t know as I don’t know the guy and haven’t read much about him, but whatever it is, however radical or extreme it may be, it coexists with a significant intelligence, with a taste for risk-taking and with a clear ability to tell engaging stories and to visualize them through the cinematic medium.
Apocalypto may not be very good historical cinema, but it is very good entertainment.
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