![]() ![]() Walking outside, he discovers that all the townspeople have gathered in hushed silence in a semicircle around his lodging, to await his awakening and appearance-the sort of thing that happens in movies, but never in real life, where some helpful townsman invariably suggests, “Let's just wake the sonuvabitch up.” In a movie that proceeds with glacial deliberation, the Postman becomes a symbol for the survivors in their struggling communities. The sheriff spots him for a fraud, but the people want to believe, and the next morning, he finds letters pushed under his door. Building on his fiction, he tells the residents of a restored U.S. At the gates of a settlement called Pineview, he claims he has come to deliver the mail. Mail van and steals the uniform, cap and letterbag of the skeleton inside. He escapes, stumbles over an abandoned U.S. His master recites lines like, “Life is a tale told by a moron,” not the sort of mistake he'd be likely to make, especially with a woman helpfully prompting him by whispering, “Idiot! Idiot!” Or maybe she's a critic.Ĭostner is conscripted into a neofascist army run by Gen. Bill can hold a sword in his mouth, and in “ Macbeth” he plays Birnam Wood. They support themselves by doing Shakespeare for bands of settlers. Costner is a lone figure in the wilderness, friendly only with his mule, named Bill. The dust clouds have settled after nuclear war, and scattered communities pick up the reins of civilization. The movie, based on an award-winning science fiction novel by David Brin, takes place in 2013. Now he sort of combines them, in a film that takes place in the post-Apocalyptic future like “Waterworld,” but looks and feels like it takes place in a Western. ![]() He told that story magnificently in “ Dances with Wolves” (1990) and then did another version in the futuristic fantasy “ Waterworld” (1995). In choosing “The Postman” as his new project, however, Costner should perhaps have reflected that audiences were becoming overfamiliar with him as the eccentric loner in the wilderness who discovers an isolated community and then joins their war against evil marauders. But parables like this require their makers to burn their bridges and leave common sense behind: Either they work (as “ Forrest Gump” did), in which case everyone involved is a genius, or they don't-in which case you shouldn't blame them for trying. It's goofy, yes, and pretentious, and Kevin Costner puts himself in situations that get snickers. Even the act of taking the jacket off of the remains (and certainly that of putting the jacket on himself) would have pulled the fabric apart.There are those who will no doubt call “The Postman” the worst film of the year, but it's too good-hearted for that. Given enough time and a suitable environment this combination of byproducts, with the addition of the bacteria that will inevitably emerge, would make any cloth or fabric (with the exception of treated leather products) not only disgustingly filthy, but also so weakened from exposure to what amounts to a corrosive liquid, that the fibers would tear apart from any stresses put on them. In the final stages of decomposition, this is referred to as liquefacation or liquiescence. As the tissues break down, many chemicals and enzymes are released, including the hydrochloric acid of the digestive system. When a person dies, the body goes through many stages of decomposition on its way to being merely a skeleton. The problem here is the condition of the clothing he takes. The main character assumes his role because he found an old abandoned mail truck containing the remains of a long dead mailman and pilfered the uniform from the skeleton.
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