![]() Not only Costner, but the entire cast, are outstanding, and the rise of authoritarians on the right in the USA and abroad shows just how sinister is the idea of a copier salesman with delusions of grandeur. The society fragments and falls into survival mode, not from political motives, but because it is simply impossible to organize on any scale without the means of communication offered by something as humble and basic as snail mail - delivered if necessary on foot and by horseback, just as was in fact done in the past. It creates its post-apocalypse world without exaggeration and assigns it a direct cause - not radioactivity or plague, but disconnectedness, lack of communication. That's good enough for me.īut in fact, as a lover both of science fiction in general, and of those stories with a vast sweep involving the entire society, particularly apocalypse stories, I found the film outstanding in all ways, even deeply touching, at the first and all subsequent viewings. Not only did he think the film was an excellent effort, he and Costner collaborated on the moral message the story was meant to convey, and Brin himself was "ecstatic" with Costner playing his hero. Who, you ask, is David Brin? He is a renowned writer of science fiction who authored the book on which the film is based. ![]() ![]() Reviewed by antimatter33 9 / 10 David Brin gave it a thumbs up - haters can bite it However, he reluctantly becomes a symbol of hope to the townspeople there who begin to remember the world that once was and giving them the courage to stand up to a tyrannical warlord and his army. He decides to pose as a postman and deliver the mail to a nearby town, bluffing that the United States government has been reinstated and tricking the town into feeding him. An unnamed wanderer retrieves a Postman's uniform and undelivered bag of mail. ![]()
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