Bethlehem arrives with his militia only to be infuriated by the sight of the American flag and people who seem to resist his ruthless reign. A black youth, who has renamed himself Ford Lincoln Mercury (Larenz Tate), asks if he can be a postman, and The Postman obliges.Īfter the sheriff shows The Postman the way out of town, Ford Lincoln Mercury proceeds to make more postmen. When he hesitates, she seduces him in the middle of the night. This lie buys him a bowl of soup and the admiration of the town, although the sheriff is skeptical.Ībby (Olivia Williams), a post apocalypse hippie, asks The Postman to make her pregnant because her husband is impotent. government is being restored, and he is a new official postman. The next walled town, Pineview, won’t let him enter until he fabricates the fib that the U.S. Shakespeare escapes and finds a postal truck in a ravine where he commandeers the uniform of the skeletal postman and becomes: The Postman. Bethlehem spouts Christian terms like redemption and born again as well as fascist terms like ethnic purity. Bethlehem knows that Shakespeare is either a potential threat or a potential right-hand man. Since he shows signs of intelligence (which are not always manifested in his filmmaking,) he is beaten mercilessly. Shakespeare is impressed into service after playing a miserable rendition of Shakespeare’s MacBeth in an impoverished village. The militia plunder the tiny villages of survivors and abduct the ethnically pure to join their army of 8.
Bethlehem (Will Patton), the copier salesman-turned-tyrant, enforces several rules: death to all who cross him no mercy and, anyone can fight him to challenge his totalitarian rule. Shakespeare, as he comes to be called, is captured by a neo-fascist band, known as “8”, who are attempting to bring dictatorial order to the present-day chaos.
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Diverging from the humanist connotations and the storyline of the book, the movie is purposefully mythic in Joseph Campbell’s confused sense.Ĭostner plays a Shakespearean actor wandering the vast wastelands of the western United States in 2013 after a devastating nuclear war which killed most of the people in the U.S. Whereas Robert Duvall plays a broken man who delivers the message of the Good News of Jesus Christ, Costner plays a broken man who delivers fabricated messages that are, in fact, merely lies, which offer no more than an ephemeral hope in a post World War III society. Both may very well be derived from the ancient Greek word, “apostolos” (messenger), but the message of the two films is very different. In fact, it could be said that there are two movies now out with the same title: Robert Duvall’s THE APOSTLE, and Kevin Costner’s THE POSTMAN.
THE POSTMAN is an unabashedly allegorical piece of apocalyptic science fiction. Like WATERWORLD, THE POSTMAN is an epic movie of unfulfilled potential. The movie is further weakened by excessive violence and fornication. By replacing truth with lies, the movie demeans the heroic. Jesus's dictum that "the truth will set you free," which inspired the Founding Fathers, is replaced by the proposition that lies will give you warm, fuzzy encouragement. Furthermore, this movie is the story of someone who is supposed to be the bearer of hope, but bears only wishful lies. THE POSTMAN is poorly conceived with continuity problems and spotty acting. A young admirer of The Postman appoints a rag-tag group of young postmen, and Bethlehem declares war on the postmen. On his next raid, Bethlehem takes Abby prisoner, and The Postman must come to her rescue. Abby asks him to make her pregnant because her husband is impotent. government so that he can finagle a bowl of soup.
At the nearest town, he claims that he is a postman appointed by a restored U.S. Neo-fascist General Bethlehem, who plunders villages, captures the actor, who escapes and dons a postal uniform as a disguise. In 2013, an actor (Kevin Costner) wanders the wastelands of the United States after most of America has been destroyed by nuclear war. Apocalyptic science fiction, THE POSTMAN is an epic movie of unfulfilled potential.
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