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why does the man jump in the waterfall scene in apocalypto?

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  • 9 years ago
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    To escape. Don't you often feel the same way?

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    He had nowhere else to go. If he tried to run across the river, they would have had a clean shot at shooting him with their bows and arrows. Plus by jumping, if he survived it would have made it harder for them to chase afte him.

  • 9 years ago

    To escape the ones who were chasing him. Wasn't that obvious?

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