Analysis Of The Indian Tribe

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To begin the movie, we see an Indian tribe hunting an animal of some sort. The indians chase this animal through the woods. The animal reaches a trap and then is cut in at least ten different places by a wall of spikes. Indians having very tough stomachs eat the animal right away. A big group of another indian passes, they are aware. The tribe would like to pass, they were covered in marks and scars, as if they were running from something. The indians let them pass because the other tribe offered so food. The movie cuts to a scene in a friendly place. There were children, homes, and working men and women. Soon we figure it out that the place is the indian village. We get to know the people and the lifestyle of indians. The children play, the …show more content…
This part of the movie is mainly to get to know the people in the tribe. The movie is also focused around one main character, but we do not know his name. He has a wife and a child, and the wife is pregnant with yet another child. During the night the man that we are watching has a dream. The man has a dream about the tribe that had passed earlier they are telling him to run for an odd reason. He wakes up to loud fire. Another group of people called the Aztecs are attacking the village. People are dying trying to fight and save the women and children. Men are hiding their families. The main character hides his family in a hole and tells them he we come back later. His family is very worried about him. The main character fights some of the aztecs but is just overpowered. He gets captured by them. He is forced to walk miles and miles through different biomes and regions. The indian is being forced against his will. Some of the men have died through the journey. After days of walking they finally reach a kingdom of some sort. The Indians are totally mistreated. Once they got there they were forced up a huge pyramid and at the top was a man. The man decapitated all of the

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