And a Man Sat Alone -- from Apocalypto

[jmaioran]

what an underrated movie. 

[Zggrt443]

What our modern culture is missing. We once gathered around the fire, the flames the only thing beating back the darkness, and listened to our elders impart ancient knowledge encapsulated within timeless tales and myth.

Now we have a box that tells us what to think and what to buy. Sad.

[HeadFullaFuzz]

Incredible.

[83912daniela]

can someone explain me the story

[zw0ecool]

damn this makes me so proud to be Mexican, a part of something so ancient and so rich in history...something mystical and powerful, full of magic....our temples will stand until the end of time.... magic is real, they might have taken our gold, but the real treasure is our spirit and it will never be broken.

[djpr0n]

@zw0ecool you have descended from a wonderful ancient people, you're absolutely right.

[slitheredxscars]

I love the wise ones, of my race.

[0oTwisTo0]

i love those native stories



[ReekzTMD]

thanks for uploading this , very much needed

[pingadomulatinha]

oneness with nature and not opposing its forces lead to the understanding of such a tale, magnificent in its simplicity. this is a foretell of what western civilization would become in modern times. the struggle of men for definitve context is the root of his own sickness and justifies societies' self-obliteration.

[pedrolorenzo121087]

anyone who believes this people were Mayan are wrong Mayans were long gone before europeans arrived as you see at the end of the film.

[pipiduro]

man, what is that? Mayan people exists till today! The same people with the same culture.. what has gone was the empire, but the people remais.

[Kisinkona]

I heard they were slaughter and enslaved and killed by diseases they had no resistance to...

[101ers77]

yeah! I know. They're not mayans, they're foul smelling-backward-demonic-sava­ge-aztec

mongols. Ancestors of the wetbacks.

[KuBandito]

Man 101 sounds ignorant

[MetalKladCicada91]

@101ers77 keep on trollin'

[hom77]

Rudy Newblood no tiene perfil maya, el verdaderamente parece un nativo de Norte America no de Centro America

[FraisC]

the first time i saw the film on DVD i had to rewind this part and soak it all in once again. sad how we keep taking from the earth without any disregard, forgetting that earth is a living thing. we need to wake up the sheep

[dairePK]

I think he said it beautifully, "I saw a hole in the man. Deep like a hunger he will never fill..." This was clearly seen when America crushed the Native Americans, the land was plentiful for the two, however they wanted more, "He will go on taking and taking..."

[seamirock]

we aren't happy with what we have, so we saught a reason behind bad things and made up god and religion.

[ASBO1THE1GREAT]

actually the reason god evolved in our minds was to help us gel moraly and deal with loss as survival required us to create strong bonds and community making loss a painfull experience. At that time we weren't advanced enough to differentiate what is real and what is psycological and so we used god to find answers to real life questions. This has held us back.

[seamirock]

good reply. but we probably have went back to realising that if there is something out there that created all this it wasn't nailed to a cross and doesn't pick peoples pockets each week.

[santrettterererrerer]

very beautifu language no??? i love there language!!

[AntonioE07]

The old man spittin some truth, boi. If you dont understand this, you dont understand ANYTHING

[UberKrispy]

@AntonioE07 oh yes

[loyallisa3]

And the Lord God commanded the man,saying,Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat: But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil,you shall not eat of it:for in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die.(I suppose Mel Gibson would appreciate that)I thought this movie was brilliant.

[SolarDog69]

So true...

[MasterFina]

Let me rephrase that. Mahatma Gandhi said it as well.

"I feel most deeply that spiritual growth compels us in a certain phase to stop slaughtering our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our physical wants."

"The Earth has enough for the needs of every single person, but not for his greed."

[MasterFina]

That hole is called, GREED.

[dancetime4me]

I can't even say something...the video says everything...it's so..true

[jfthomas30052]

Powerful stuff, isn't it?

[dancetime4me]

definetely

[jonstfrancis]

@jfthomas30052 awesome!

[rcampag]

This story is the main idea of the movie and the summary of our lives. Its meaning is clear enough, isn't it?

[ulmovarda]

why would it matter whether the story was worded right, the story is powerful and im sure is deeply rooted in our being.

[candydaze00]

the story is true? or they just invented it for the movie?

[Sortilegio1000]

!!!!!Magnifique Video!!!!!

[jfthomas30052]

Exactament.

[fayelanson]

This story is spot on.

[CarlosMacMartin]

The message from this elder is a "no brainer".

People have lost touch with themselves as well

as the earth.People don't respect People or

other living beings:Winged,Fish,Four-legged­,

etc.Sad but true!

[mcdougles]

See the film Rapa Nui, it has the same message.

[PzKpfw]

Does anyone else get the hidden meaning? I wont say anything if you don't yet.

[Vyuuku]

i love this story.

"Someday the world will say: I'm no more and i have nothing left to give."

It's weird that some people just don't see it.

[LaLynxie]

the story of the fall of mankind.

beautiful

meaningful + wise

brilliant!

i love the deep message behind this movie

[LaLynxie]

i jus hope othr people can see it too

[jfthomas30052]

This scene sums up the movie, I think, which is why I posted it!

[CarlosMacMartin]

Yucatan Maya is a beautiful language.One of my

co-workers is a Yucateco & was teaching me

some of his language.Amazing People who had a

prosperous empire.But all things have to come

to end.We can learn much from their example!

[HEALSWASTIKA]

ensename hablar maya pagaria por aprender maya

[Realistik1]

i actually didn't need the subtitles cuz i understood everything...i'm from YUCATAN.. they use YUCATEC MAYA through out the whole movie...

[Mariachi24]

beautiful language

[IMBUED]

what saddens me is some people would like this movie just cause of the blood, and sacrifice, and some will get it all.

[kenrubes]

it's a gorgeous and extremely heartwrenching film. Mel is an absolutely brilliant dude. ..he really is.

[steveenglish85]

Here's a story to cheer people up!

A Happy Cat

There is a story told about a cat who discovered that happiness was in his tail.

He kept trying over and over to get it, but all he could do was run around in circles.

Exhausted and frustrated, with this endless pursuit,, he eventually stopped.

And then, he discovered that if he'd just go on about his life then it would follow him wherever he went.

[steveenglish85]

This story should cheer people up because it demonstrates the way we need to look at life to fix the problem that the elder is illuminating. Changing the way we look at life is the only way to change our harmful actions. So first try hard to understand the video and then try hard to understand "A Happy Cat."

[steveenglish85]

By the way, it really helps to write out the story onto a computer as you watch the movie and pause. It helps towards the effort of fully understanding the meaning behind his words.

[Sherina08]

thats cute

[Favic]

I cannot even understood what voice but it really got subtitle with english...

-Favic

[brookeb99]

Loved this movie

[mjufpn]

nice

[xheetah128]

So true

[SouljahMahn]

Best film i have seen in years. I cant believe the american public couldnt stand it. It goes to show you how blind people continue to let themselves be. Great story!!

[kenrubes]

I agree.....I'm American(and Jewish).

[souljahmahn420]

I would have thought America would wake up by now, but we choose to be left in our dillusional fantasies totally adverse to our current Babylonial continuence without any mind or thought of our souls. We are fixated on the 3 dimensions which (I believe) is holding us back from our true potential that God has planned for us.

[kenrubes]

that's a relatively brilliant comment. We are indeed a tangible culture. We only accept and embrace what we can put our finger on.

[souljahmahn420]

thanks for your input. It makes me happy and optimistic to see intelligence and people with understanding still exist. Only problem is we dont rule the world.. lol Good luck to ya my brotha

[charleshersir]

esa es una buena historia, muy cierta ! el hombre jamas va a sacear su hambre

[jfthomas30052]

Yes, and he will continue to take until the world has nothing left to give..

[laquinta88]

good story