Mel Gibson · 2006 · survival

Mel Gibson's 2006 film, told entirely in Yucatec Maya. On the eve of the Spanish arrival, the hunter Jaguar Paw is seized when raiders burn his rainforest village, and marched through the jungle to a Maya city to be sacrificed. A solar eclipse spares him, and he breaks free to be hunted back through the forest to the coast, where strange ships lie offshore and his world begins to end.

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   Jaguar Paw's village

   Jaguar Paw hunts tapir with his father until raiders storm the village at dawn; he hides his pregnant wife and son in a dry well before he is taken and bound for the march.

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   The Maya city

   The captives are driven to a pyramid city gripped by drought and plague, where priests cut out beating hearts to feed the sun, until an eclipse halts the killing and spares him.

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   The coast

   Hunted through the jungle by the warriors who took him, Jaguar Paw reaches the shore and sees Spanish ships at anchor; he turns back to the forest to find his family.