Apocolypto

I loved Apocolypto for it's depiction of human society and perhaps human nature. I thought it was very intresting seeing humans trying to control the uncontrollable nature, bargaining with it, using human lives as the currency of exchange between themselves and the Gods. I think it is innate within us to desire control. Is our folly the fact that we have not accepted the uncontrollable to be what it is?

Maybe human sacrafice is governed by the belief in thermodynamics, which first law, Conservation of Energy says we cannot create nor destroy. Therefore we used the Gods to convert energy from human life into sun and rain.

When I watched that movie, I thought about the greatness of belonging to a species in which society is essential. The beginning is a story of daily life: from work, to love, to family, to laughter, and the revival of our ancestory through telling of stories.

But society has its maladies. Chaos is seen when a ruling class overpowers another. They paint their captures blue to set them apart from themselves. The new blue creatures become objects of amusement.

It was something to think about, how humans can treat each other so wretchedly as to ransack their homes, rape their bodies, tear out their beating hearts and throw their corpses tumbling down stone steps.

It seems like something of a dark, distant, ignorant past.

Then I think, how much wiser have we become? Aren't we still painting each other blue?