Apocalypto
film by Gibson
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Apocalypto is a 2006 film directed by Mel Gibson. The movie is set in Mesoamerica, a region encompassing parts of Mexico and Central America that was urbanized before Spanish colonization.12
The film depicts the decline of Mayan civilization, focusing on themes of prophecy and the end of the world, which were significant aspects of Maya cosmology. The Maya believed in cyclical time and that the current world was destined to end in cataclysms, though a new world would follow to continue the cycle.2
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