Jaguar sacrifice, man becomes jaguar, and in his own element the hunt is on.
Then there is the Shaman's apprentice bound to his own domain and the world his culture created gaining power as the run goes on. Themes repellent and relevant for today and a warning to those who steal ritual from nature to use as a means of control and power through shock and awe and fear in this we are all diminished by this spectacle of grandeur. Using science and observable fact as a mask for sacrifice and superstition. How the increasingly impoverished Mayas used the science of the eclipse to eclipse the fact of their own empires demise. The symbolism of this movie works on so many levels. It wasn't so long ago that we existed in a world of distorted ritual and superstition, (we still do) where once we had alchemy we now have chemistry. Too bad because this story is epic and monumental, a clash of cultures, sophisticated but primitive civilization encroaches upon those who live by the reality of the self-sustaining jungle, immersed by the understanding of their nature. This is a magnificent film, despite the warranted criticism of the Director's personal life and how the film was stifled and stalled by controversy unjustly so.
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