There's no discernible irony in the eventual glorification of the hero. In 2013 there are no highways, no I-ways, no dreams of a better tomorrow, only scattered survivors across what was once the Unites States. He gets his food, and thus inspires a true, rookie mail service - an audacious social enterprise which outrages Patton's feudal tyrant.
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It's his charlatan side that switches on the story: chancing across a crashed mail truck, he assumes the dead postman's uniform and talks his way into the next walled town, improvising a tale in which a reconstituted US government is slowly re-establishing its infrastructure. Only Costner's character is at all remarkable. Scenes showing the salvaging of resources from sunken New York City (with Statue of Liberty still standing) is a big mind tweak on first viewing. feel of Kevin Costners other post-apocalyptic film Waterworld (1995). The film aims for an uncomfortable compromise between the dramatic sincerity of Dances with Wolves and the epic spectacle of Waterworld, but lacks the explanatory detail and narrative fluency to achieve either. Waterworld, which (like Planet of the Apes) is set in the future after the modern world is destroyed, helps one to imagine what the real world was like around 3,500 BC in the aftermath of the Great Flood. Tom Petty mentioned back in 1982 while filming the video for his song You Got. Costner, a loner scavenging on the fringe of society, instigates and leads a just and glorious resistance. Worst product placement since Tom Petty in Waterworld. In a post-apocalyptic, anarchic wilderness, a semi-fascist goon squad terrorises the surviving populace.
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A sense of déjà vu pervades this self-directed, over long and outsized Costner project. Three hours just so Costner can meet Tom Petty who somehow became a mayor of a bridge city in post-apocalyptic America Better than Waterworld, I will fight people on this.