Let’s get right to the point, shall we? About halfway through Mel Gibson’s movie “Apocalypto,” which opens this week, viewers are treated to a stomach-turning scene of human sacrifice, set in a Mayan city around 1500. It’s not revealing too much to say that the movie’s hero is captured by a gang of marauders, bound, marched through the jungle, painted blue, and forced to the top of a pyramid where heads roll.
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Lisa Miller
Lisa Miller is a contributing editor at New York magazine. She is the former religion columnist for the Washington Post, former senior editor of Newsweek magazine, and author of “Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife.” She is a multi-year winner of the New York Newswomen’s Club prize for feature writing and has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award.