Yesterday afternoon I wanted to make a gallon of iced tea before settling down with the Sunday paper and watching "Apocalypto" on IFC, the 2006 movie directed by Mel Gibson. I was under the misapprehension as I later found out, that it's not about the Mayans meeting the Spanish explorers, it's just about Mayans BEFORE the Spanish.
Anyway, I was standing in front of a kitchen cabinet looking for the decaf Lipton tea bags when something bit me on the leg.

Looking down I saw I was standing on a line of ants! Where did the little boogers come from? What were they after? I make sure I keep the kitchen and counters very clean so as not to attract these little pests, but there they were. I swiped them up with damp paper towels, sprayed the area with Raid, then had to clean the vacuum filter (grrr-I should have had it ready to use) and vacuumed over and over.

Meanwhile between the tea making and ant killing, Apocalypto had been on for about 30 minutes. I rushed in to watch as Mayan men were dissecting a capybara they had dispatched and laughing as they gave a childless man the balls to eat as a joke. Back to the kitchen for more spraying and vacuuming. Back to Apocalypto. Indians running through the jungle being chased by other Indians. Indians being enslaved to help build the stone pyramids, then escape from enslavement. Indians chasing one another through the jungle. Back to check on the ants.

Back to Apocalypto. More chasing through the jungle, finally one was left. He jumped down a waterfall and came out unscathed. He was shot in the chest with an arrow, pulled it out and kept going. Being chased non stop, he finds his pregnant wife and son hiding in a cenote, almost to the point of drowing as it fill with water and she goes into labor. He looks in then keeps running until he reaches the sea. He and his pursuers stop dead in their tracks on the beach as they see something exceedingly strange--Spanish ships, and men in boats paddling ashore.
That's where I wish the movie had started--showing the first encounters with the Mayas and the Spanish, but that's where it ended.
The movie was way too long and the endless jungle chasing got boring.
Anyway, that's my take on the film, so I don't think I missed much while I was distracted with the ant killing.

Oh, BTW, all the dialogue was in what I suppose passed for Mayan, and the English interpretation was writen at the bottom of the screen in white letters--impossible to read most of the time. Why not have a black band with the dialouge written across it so you can read it?

susil