One area where this film did not reinforce the history of these tribes was when the eclipse occurred. In the movie, the people from the village appeared scared and surprised, when on reality an eclipse was nothing new to them. These people had everything well calculated; they knew everything about the skies, so an eclipse was common and predictable. Also, another misunderstood part in the film was when all the dead bodies where laying on the ground. For me that scene was disrespect to our ancestors. Neither the Maya or Aztecs would have bodies just lying wherever, they would create a special place to keep the bodies so they could later dissolve or they would bury them. I think this scene can also make people think wrong about these tribes, they were not “savages” as some people think. This was just part of their way of living. “Their culture, that is, their way of life, revolved around those things most important to them: the hunt and the animals they depended on for food, as well as the forces of nature such as rain, lightening, thunder, the sun and the moon.”(The Mexican American Heritage, Carlos M.
One area where this film did not reinforce the history of these tribes was when the eclipse occurred. In the movie, the people from the village appeared scared and surprised, when on reality an eclipse was nothing new to them. These people had everything well calculated; they knew everything about the skies, so an eclipse was common and predictable. Also, another misunderstood part in the film was when all the dead bodies where laying on the ground. For me that scene was disrespect to our ancestors. Neither the Maya or Aztecs would have bodies just lying wherever, they would create a special place to keep the bodies so they could later dissolve or they would bury them. I think this scene can also make people think wrong about these tribes, they were not “savages” as some people think. This was just part of their way of living. “Their culture, that is, their way of life, revolved around those things most important to them: the hunt and the animals they depended on for food, as well as the forces of nature such as rain, lightening, thunder, the sun and the moon.”(The Mexican American Heritage, Carlos M.