Lessons I learn from the Movie Apocalypto

Lessons I learn from the Movie Apocalypto

Recently I watched the movie APOCALYPTO.

There were actually no subtitles to this movie and the movie was done in some tribal language. But the movie is directed very well in such a way that language is not really a problem, just by the events you can really understand the whole movie. I really loved it and recommend others to watch. It’s a masterpiece by the director Mel Gibson – who previously directed the Passion of Christ –which too again was excellently done in Aramaya Language with English subtitles. I think Mel Gibson likes to make movies in non-English languages.

Anyway hats-off to Mel Gibson.

Now let’s come to the lessons I learn from this movie.

The central characters of this movie are a tribal husband, pregnant wife and their son. This husband and many of his other tribal friends were arrested and taken to a place where men/women were sold and slaughtered. Before this arrest – the husband managed to safely locate his wife and son in some sort of a well. After the arrest – the husband was always thinking of his wife and son. His absolute priority in life was to reach back to his family. Family was his destiny. And he will do anything to reunite to his family.

Because of his good character – he was able to escape from human sacrifice, black tiger, waterfall, marshy land and many others. Each time after his run/escape from this slaughter place he met with hurdles like the black tiger, steep waterfall, marshy land – these situations came as obstacles but it turned to be his lucky ones. All these hurdles saved him from the slaughter enemy soldiers who were chasing to kill him.

In fact if you observe the movie carefully – nature helped him and his family to get united. And to add to this happiness, the pregnant wife gave birth to a beautiful child. And this was shown wonderfully by means of a water birth. I saw a water birth for the first time in this movie.

In short, you will reach your destiny - whatever may be the hurdles – if your intentions are not bad, all hurdles / stumbling block will turn good and act as a blessing to your path to success and your destiny.

Once again I would like to bring to your kind attention (if you have read my previous blogs) – if you do good deeds, the surroundings will automatically turn good for you. At various occasions you may think that things are happening and looks like they are hurdles to ones success/destiny – it’s actually not – they are real blessings to you. And always remember TRUST.

Good things happen to good people & What you reap is what you sow. If you sow hatred/ jealous / anger – without doubt it is what you are going to get back.

Further, I like to borrow a sentence from Robin Sharma’s Books > Be like the sun – the sun gives away all it has to the plants and the trees. But in return, the plants and the trees always grow towards the sun.

Keep smiling and lets all make the world a better place and remember family first – if you lose your family, you will lose everything.

Suju.the.Archer