When Mikhail Leonidovich Khazin began to tell what a frontier is, I immediately saw footage from the American film ' Postman'.
We decided to reconsider. Very good, very good and psychologically verified post-apocalyptic film. From the fantastic - only that the characters do not run out of ammunition for quite a long time, and everything else is quite realistic. What struck me was the film’s extremely low rating in the world. He just failed in America. This is despite the fact that any post-apocalyptic labuda has always been used and enjoys stable success.
For Kevin Costner (producer, director and lead actor), as we read, this film marked the end of his career.
We thought, what's wrong?
And I realized that the movie just failed. From above, they filled up, made him anti-advertising, were not allowed to rent and so on. They can do that.
Because the movie is just right. Only there was America shown in all its glory: its predation, its desire to suppress and destroy all living things for its own domination over the whole world. And the main thing is not some abstract post-apocalyptic world, but a very specific, geographically located: the United States of America.
Is that possible?
No, it can't be. From the word at all.
It is impossible that the United States of America should ever end or be defeated. Because it is like the kingdom of heaven, paradise on earth, democratic paralysis and happiness for all.
It may be an apoclypse in Russia, in Africa, in Asia, in Europe, finally. But not in America.
They also burn the American flag. It's a crime!
It doesn’t matter that everyone unites under the same American flag and wins – it’s too late. Costner is an enemy of the American people and cannot be rehabilitated.
I also remembered that Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov told how the Americans overbought him ' The Siberian Barber' to pinch and not release it in rent. Only because the center of the intrigue was an American woman. There are no corrupt women in the United States. It shouldn't be. Even in a very good movie.
And then I remembered our favorite movie 'Kni-dza-dza' He, too, was misunderstood for a long time when he came out. Even the filmmakers didn’t seem to know what they were shooting. They thought it was a comedy, and it was a prophecy. It's so powerful and accurate that today it's sold out to quotes -- not because they're funny, but because they reflect today's reality very accurately.
It seems that Costner also made a prophetic film. General Bethlegen’s main negative character is exactly what America has become today. Ruthless, mercilessly destroying everyone and everyone who disagrees with her, who does not give her what she wants, basing her domination on fear and hatred. I admit that the critics saw this analogy in this film, and it also played a role.
But what I liked most about the film is something else: how a person to whom the role of the hero was imposed by circumstances becomes a real hero - only because everyone expects him to.
It's an amazing story.
A controversial film. I haven’t seen it in a long time, but I remember it very well. Because I have a source book on my shelf, and the film itself was on the cassette, and it was played on TV more than enough. The world shown does raise many questions. I, for example, at the first view caught the eye that the inhabitants of cities keep cars with pumped (!) wheels on the streets, but for some reason they do not drive, but use only horsepower. And why are people in this post-apocalypse not friends with electricity, do not use lamps, machines? I mean, they have a firearm, so they have to make ammunition for it. In the book there were no special details about the entourage, so there is no demand for an unrealistically prescribed world. It was all about the idea and the message, and they were pretty cute and humanistic. In fact, they are the pluses of the film. My mother liked this film very much for its humanistic message, for which she forgave him all naivety.
So the author of the plot source deserves cookies for a quite cute and humane morality, and there are a lot of questions to the director and designers. And this correlation between the script and its implementation made me stay neutral towards the film.
The film also had an impact on 'Judgment Day'. Neil Marashla. Only there he came up with some explanation why people in the plague world stopped using high technology and went to the new Middle Ages.
6 out of 10
Sometimes it seems that at the end of the last century, Hollywood was given the task of “party and government” to coddle Americans with soothing patriotic tales and convince them to believe everything in the wise bipartisan Capitol and the even wiser White House, even if you put a monkey there.
After watching the movie The Postman (1997), it seems especially strong. Before the virtual destruction of the WTC and the flight of aircraft into skyscrapers with pentagons, with the subsequent deprivation of American civil rights through the adoption of the “patriotic act”, another 4 years must pass, and the rinsing of American brains has already gone with might.
“Discovery of the century” in this review of “the Postman” – as it were the secret of the polychinel. The film began truthfully until it continued with a show of American self-awareness and a genetically conditioned (implied) attraction to justice.
This was like a caricature or a film instruction on how to behave in the conditions of the death of the familiar world: to get into gangs, call your gang “civil society” and recreate the way that once dragged the old society to the final destruction.
Here is the whole review of the old film: the technical aspects of "excellent", ideologically - rubbish and propaganda, softening the brain of contemporaries, so as not to interfere with the tycoons of globalism, what to want, then turn.
The movie was very good. Low scores in the West are probably associated with a lot of patriotism in the frame. But by the way, the film is good, thanks to this feature, the concept of the main character is revealed more fully. The main character, the postman, a character who initially did not care about the post office, the idea of reviving the US government. He just wanted to survive, and that’s what the whole movie is all about. It was very interesting to observe the behavior of the protagonist’s followers and his own behavior. If you look from this position, then the claim to excessive saturation of the film with patriotism immediately disappears, because you realize how stupid the followers of the Postman really are. It's funny to see so many people willing to follow lies to lead a more dignified existence. If you can’t pay attention to this highlight of the movie, then you won’t like it.
Very well sketched in the film army Hollist, you feel that this is a powerful well-organized army. The leader of this army is not an ordinary bombastic villain, but a quite intelligent and interesting character (although he was revealed as a nasty godless tyrant). Not every film manages to create such a lively army, and the presence of that army is felt throughout the film, because it is really a living army, not a cheap set. Of course, I would like the actions of this “villain” to be revealed further more rationally, and for example, he would be able to organize a more just state, but to please the scenario this did not happen.
I do not understand such a low assessment in relation to the acting of Costner, the image of the wanderer-crooked actor conveyed perfectly. The tragic expression of the main character’s face when his favorite mule was gone, the actor plays great. Apparently, by the time of filming, Costner had a bad reputation in the United States, from which he was awarded a raspberry, well, or there were other reasons that have nothing to do with the actor’s acting talents.
The main claim to the film is its ending, the unification of the two troops looked stupid. Well, it cannot be that well-trained strong wars are so easily combined with a newly organized army that has no experience, especially since these armies were initially hostile. The victory of the main character over Bethlehem also looked stupid, the main character could not defeat such a strong warrior (especially at the beginning of the film it was told that Bethlehem had already defeated one clearly no less strong than the main character of the opponent). In short, personally, I would love to look at the battle scene, instead of a fight with an unrealistic outcome.
To sum it up, the film does not deserve the negative awards it received. If you look from a certain angle, this film has a depth that is not in any other film. It should be added that the concept of the film suffers greatly because of the rigid dramaturgical laws, if they did not have such a great influence, we could see an even more detailed and realistic picture.
7 out of 10
The tape should have been called ' Smoothys' because in most of the frames we can see poor and downtrodden people. As usual, everything is built on lies. They save on everything and are afraid of everything, however, at the same time, in the evenings they turn the film (and, therefore, there is an electric generator somewhere) and shoot at 'poor' Costner from M16A1 (and masterfully 'majut'). I’d rather call Kevin GG, because that would be the most objective assessment of his directing, producing and acting. In this film, the whole world revolves around... GG. Yeah, yeah. He is applauded, pityed, saved at the cost of his own life and given love. If he is accidentally bypassed, then such moments are played out as ' martyric / suffering' Mud.
It is not clear what the acting troupe counted on, releasing this, if I may say, film. Either they thought they would surprise someone with the original script (which didn’t happen), or they thought Kevin Costner’s name would be a panacea for failure, like Roman legionnaires’ bows for all diseases. They didn’t know... they didn’t think about the audience.
The film is bad, with bad dialogue, bad events and bad psychology of the characters. Although what they are to the sloppy ' Heroes', so - ' Heroes', ' Sloppy'.
2 out of 10
P.S. Don't waste your time looking at snot. Watch only for Costner fans. But again, this is not utopia, this is nonsense.
It remains a mystery to me why this film failed in theaters and beyond. So much frank slag is extolled, and rare films with the Message are littered with garbage. This film can be compared to a tossed coin that fell on the edge - someone sees the obverse from his side, someone the reverse. I should have looked at the rib itself. .
The film has a lot of pathos, patriotism, pink idyllic shots - for this many scold him. It has a lot of improbability, softness, even tenderness. For this, he is literally sprayed with foam from his mouth. But these are just sides of the coin. On the edge lies the main idea of both the film and the book - in hope, in the inner strength of man. This power can change the world.
The book devotes most of the time to this, maybe that’s why in the film it’s only felt somewhere in the subconscious, it’s not given so much point time. The main characters in the book are people, not the Postman. All those who did not break down before famine, war, looters. All those who tried to build their little world among the dirt, in which there will be at least a drop, at least a ray of light. And the Postman only awakens in people the desire for the best, helps to give a helping hand to neighbors, fight among the blood and dirt for the future. In the film, these moments are not accentuated, but they are somehow hidden. The most touching moments of the film are just point shots of what I said above. The postman is a catalyst for the inner experiences of the people around him. They needed Hope, what they had been waiting for all their lives, digging through beds and suffering beatings. That’s why teenagers were so eager to become postmen for hope.
And here we are: someone says that the film is pink snot, there is no post-apocalypse, the script is illogical and so on. And I say, this movie is a direct demonstration of the power of hope. The film is charged on the positive, warms like a blanket and a hot cup of tea in the rainy autumn. The film warms up, every time I watch it I am filled with humanity.
There are a lot of flaws in it (especially the ending, which I would even remake), but look at the film as a demonstration of the power of hope, be a Pine View city dweller who was told that among the only deaths, hard work, dangers and unrest you received a letter from your family years later. Remember when the sheriff of the town cried quietly as he read a letter from his sister? Try being one. Feel hope, add to your inner world, try to get along with it, and you can’t scold the film. There is hope in him.
I recently read a book of the same name and immediately wanted to see the movie. I liked the book. A kind of “light post-apocalypse”, like radiation nowhere, and mutants, too. Reading the book represented the main character of course Kevin Costner, as the echoes of my first viewing left an imprint in the memory. Kevin Costner is certainly a good actor, but in "Water World" and "Dancing with Wolves" his character seemed to me more fortunate.
What can I say? The film did not fail in vain at the box office and received several awards "Golden Raspberry". I wouldn’t say that this is the “worst film”, but the acting and the pathos of “American”, starting with songs-dances to the guitar and ending with the final fight of the protagonist and antagonist, as well as a number of non-matchings, led to this result. How wonderful that in such a world there was a kind man who was able to end the war and unite the two warring camps. And a faithful orderly shoots his leader, a holnist. Well, thugs and “survival masters” could not come to terms with the death of their leader. Nonsense. Watching the film, I began to catch myself thinking that pathos was enough, so I bravely scrolled moment by moment and especially where the postman picks up the letter from the boy. I will add to this many differences with the book. The Cyclops is not shown, nor are the Amazon scouts who tragically died. In the book, the Holnists were already at war with Oregon, and immediately it is shown that Bethlehem, driven by a thirst for revenge, chases his army after the Postman. War does not end in a book, it only strengthens people’s faith. I would safely cut out the moment from the film where the Postman hides in the mountains in some hut, turning into a kind of Oblomov.
The very idea of the scale of postal activity is also not without merits. One thing makes me uncomfortable. Couldn't Bethlehem have figured out the location of their headquarters and covered the entire gang? I liked the anti-hero game best. Will Patton wants to listen, believes him and acts like a leader. To the advantages of this film, I also included scenery and costumes. You immediately feel devastation and poverty. Detachments of “holnists” are dressed as an army, all have equipment, no problems with weapons. This somehow gives the atmosphere of “post-apocalypse”. Well, the beginning, when the main character wanders with a donkey, although in the book he is a loner. Exactly until one of the villagers accidentally surrenders it. Then the porridge begins, both with the twisting of the plot and with the production itself. Although it carries the ideas of uniting the nation in the difficult times of the post-apocalypse. Fans of p/a topics should see once.
It is difficult to find in world cinema such a loud and failed film, which received five Golden Raspberries, as the most dubious creation of cinema. That's what this movie is. His budget for the late 90s is impressive - 80 million dollars. The money is huge, so you could make a really cool and high-quality movie. The director, producer and performer of the main role was American actor Kevin Costner. His big-budget creation was criticized to dust and called one of the worst films of the decade.
Why is cinema so bad? What's wrong with it? It goes about three hours, he has hundreds of extras, expensive scenery, picturesque shooting, actors play famous, but the picture is considered incompetent and a great disappointing failure.
In this story, we see a future after war and epidemics. Before us is a traveler who prefers to live alone from all survivors. One day he is captured by a despotic tyrant general who has an army and rules over the common people. The hero escapes from his amy, wearing the form of a dead postman, thereby getting into an incredible story that will change and turn the lives of many people.
From the first ten minutes of the movie, you know there's something wrong with him. The picture seems dry, drawn out, in places not at all interesting. It goes on for a very long time, almost three hours, and all this time there was an empty atmosphere in the film, there was a lack of some action, something sharp, truthful. The movie looked arrogant and very, very boring. Directing is completely dead, and this is a stone in the garden to Kevin Costner. As an actor, I appreciate him since childhood, but as a director, he is something disastrous and amateurish.
The whole structure of the film, the sequence, the plot is something murky and questionable. The idea of this film was brilliant, but it turned out something vague and not at all interesting. Costner would need to be either a director or an actor in this film. Because he was everything, and it turned out to be something unpleasant and fake. Even considering his role in this picture, he often overplays, which was even disappointing to see. He did not endow his role as a postman with anything new, his previous images from his other heroes were seen in his play. The duet was composed by the British actress Olivia Williams, then regretted that she played in this film. The actor I liked most about this movie was Will Patton. He played his negative character with feeling, and I remember most of all.
I tried to evaluate this film objectively, to find its positive features and advantages, but I did not like the film at all. Such a loud idea, three hours of tape, so much money spent, but it turned out something boring and disappointing. That's too bad.
"The Postman" is an American, adventure, fantastic film with a flavor of drama and action movie in 1997. This film is when you have huge opportunities, but no spirit and feeling of the director, it turns out something extremely disastrous. Golden Raspberry: Worst Film, Worst Director, Worst Actor, Worst Screenplay and Even Worst Song. I'm saying to this movie, "No/b."
“The Postman” is Kevin Costner’s third directorial work and his second, financial failure (the first failure was “Water World” shot two years earlier), the 1997 film is largely underrated by critics and failed to recapture even a third of its budget. But, despite the unpaid budget and unflattering reviews of critics, the Postman is still a worthy representative of the post-apocalypse genre.
Kevin Costner successfully coped with both his role and directing. You sincerely believe in his hero and empathize with him. True, the postman turned out to be somewhat passive when it came to a conflict with the general, but this is easily explained by himself, the main character, when he says about himself that he is not a leader, but a follower. A little upset that in some scenes Costner clearly overdosed with the amount of pathos per square meter.
Will Patton even surpassed Costner with his acting. General Bethlehem in his performance turned out to be a dual character. Cruel, quick to kill, looking for a worthy opponent to meet him in battle, but at the same time he is engaged in painting, collects antiques and knows Shakespeare well. Although, according to him, earlier he only sold copying equipment.
With the visual part of the film is also all right, for which special thanks to the cameraman Stephen F. Windon. Landscapes of the world that survived the disaster are truly fascinating and impressive.
Another undoubted plus is a pleasant and creating the right atmosphere soundtrack from James Newton Howard.
Over. The postman is an exciting and exciting adventure. Yes, a large timekeeping can scare you away, but do not be afraid, watching this film completely forget about time.
8 out of 10
Kevin Costner, as they say, decided to milk a cow while it gives milk. In the sense that after the success of his directorial debut with the western “Dancing with Wolves” (I remind you that this film received a well-deserved “Oscar”), he decided not to stop in this role. By coincidence, he again took the helm of the post-apocalyptic adventure “Water World” and, despite harsh criticism from experts, “Water World” received a positive balance from the usual audience. The theme of the post-apocalypse, apparently, so interested Costner that for his next directorial work, he chose a novel by David Brin and knocked out as much as $ 80 million for production!
In order for this project to be successful, the producers still reinsured and the adaptation of the book was done by already deserved screenwriters Eric Roth, who received an Oscar for Forrest Gump, and Brian Helgeland, also the owner of the coveted statuette for “Secrets of Los Angeles”. So, three Oscar-winners and a curious genre, what else can I add? The film itself will attract a large audience and remained the case for the “small” Kostner again prove to everyone that he is not only a talented actor, but everyone else deserves another award. But it turned out, as was not expected at all: “The Postman” became the triumphant anti-award “Golden Raspberry”, and in almost all “main” nominations, both for directing and for the main male role, and then also “nominated” as the best film of the decade. But, despite this fact, the viewer took and received the Postman well, and many were perplexed about such a flow of criticism to the tape of Kevin Costner.
But, in principle, there is something to blame Costner. Firstly, the "Postman" was not only too "smeared on a plate", but also strongly resembled his own "Water World", the exceptions were only that instead of the expanses of the entire Ocean was land, only the cities were destroyed by another universal catastrophe, and instead of boats and other ships were horses. Everything else, up to the manner of dress, as if transferred from the “Water world”, becoming its almost sequel. The error was also in the choice of the main attacker of the picture. Will Patton is good at playing along, having played his “five minutes of fame” in “Armageddon” and “Gone in 60 Seconds”, and when he was on horseback (literally and figuratively), the task was not up to him. Such faith and such fear he did not inspire, as, say, Dennis Hopper from all the same "Water World". And another saddening nuance of the film: the absolute self-confidence of Costner, his game of messiah, which will save our mortal world - it turned into an unpleasant pathos. Even the climax scene, when the hero of Costner jumps on a horse and right on the move takes a letter from the hand of a boy – it was as pretentious as it is pathetic.
And yet there are worthy moments in “The Postman”, why then the rating of the film is above 7 points, and this is already above average. First, you can see where all the money spent on the production of the picture was invested. Another question is that in the box office “the Postman” and the third did not beat, but with scale, with scenery problems in the film. Again, another thing is that it all resembles a Western (Kostner’s next and last directing work will be just the Western “Open Space”), but the spirit of the post-apocalypse was lacking. However, Costner confidently withstood the genre of adventure cinema. In the Postman, something is constantly happening, something is changing, the film is not going to stop for a second, so changing the full-scale scenes, taking panoramic, to shots of the same built fortresses, in no way repel the viewer, perhaps, thanks to the dynamics of development, scenario turns, many mastered the three-hour action of the Postman. So the overall plan from tape operator Stephen F. Windon might be pleasing. In small pluses, you can also bring the fact that, despite the genre of post-apocalypse, the colors were not thickened and the film looks with a pleasant light color scheme. And the same plus is that in small roles starred Giovanni Ribisi and Sean Hatoshi, who were just gaining momentum in their career, however, Hatoshi she clearly stalled. Thanks to them, you do not look back on the role of Olivia Williams, the obligatory passion of the main character, because you expect the same game as Mary McDonnell from Dancing with Wolves, but, alas, this was not destined to come true.
In general, the third directorial work of Kevin Costner was not without flaws, there is something to find fault with, but fans of the post-apocalypse genre, especially films like “Water World” and “Mad Max”, can be satisfied with what they saw.
Postman - "Once upon a time people walked on the moon"
Abby – “So what’s the point now?”
"The Postman"
The film community in the United States has made it clear to Kevin Costner what is wrong and how to make the right movie. Literally throwing a good overall film, a bouquet of faded reviews and rotten reviews. The Postman is far from perfect. From a staged point of view, there are a lot of questions, the logic of the narrative limps on both legs. It would seem that thundered the film in these areas, no, responsible for the correct ideological content of the American cinema, attacked, from where they did not expect. Mixed with dirt like the right message of the movie. The idea of unity of the people, under the banners of a reborn America. What's the reason? It is that Costner had the audacity to encroach upon the infallible truth. The existence of a God-chosen, one and indivisible country. A country that is one and cannot fall apart because of the speeches of even a very talented speaker.
In 2013, the United States ceased to exist as a single state. Each settlement lives in a state of medieval order, having no idea about what is happening around. The only real force is a regular army of Holnists led by General Bethlehem (Will Patton), a talented but brutal leader. In the army of Holnists called cowardly stray actor nicknamed Shakespeare (Kevin Costner). Soon enough, realizing that military service was not suitable for him, Shakespeare deserted. Found the form of the deceased postman, allowed Shakespeare to turn into the Postman, get a piece of bread, a roof over his head and quite unexpectedly raise an army.
Costner laid out a scenario in which the highest dignitaries of his great nation would conduct their experiments in various parts of the world. The plot of the film exactly repeats what is happening at these moments near the Russian borders. Chauvinistic slogans, the formation of combat-ready armed units to restore order, the transformation of field commanders into respected political figures. Do not rush to enroll Costner in Nostradamusi, he did not invent or predict anything, before his eyes there was already the chaos of the outskirts of the Soviet Union, the agony of Yugoslavia. This scenario is very simple and banal on the one hand, and so scary on the other.
Kevin Costner's treason, the reason his film was destroyed. America cannot go down this path, it is unacceptable to even think about it. It is not permissible to give people the opportunity to think that by joining together they can create a new whole. You don’t have to create anything, everything is, and it’s forever. You will say that for nonsense, apocalyptic pictures a lot, including the collapse of the States. But there was no message in any film to create anything new. Films about the new world, divided into stories about loners surviving in a scorched world, or about the resistance of the faithful sons of America, any kind of enemy. Either there is no state at all, or the remnants of the state organize the struggle. Not individual figures, not groups of people, but representatives of the legitimate authorities are behind progressive processes. The film encroaches on a continuity that can be traced back to the Roman Empire.
For Americans, what is happening in the Syrian and Ukrainian experimental reserves is something very distant and completely incomprehensible. Therefore, watching the presented in the "Postman", the world is a little strange. Everything is a little artificial, slick, people do not feel real fear and loss. This is not surprising, Americans have never faced such a thing, they did not feel the burning of bonfires, did not hear calls for the overthrow of the government. They cannot feel the impending uncertainty, uncertainty about the future. The disappearance of motorized vehicles, normal firearms and other mechanisms raises questions. They had a technocratic revolution there, apparently, and people capable of creating or reanimating technical means instantly disappeared.
All these questions are clinging to memory when the film is a one-day hollow. In this case, you do not pay attention to them. This happens when the creators tried to honestly analyze what will happen and how people will behave in this case. Kevin Costner’s character gives people hope by simply telling them that Broadway is once again playing and the president has set up his residence in a former football stadium. Believe in these stories can either be a complete fool or a desperate person. Whether the Postman realizes what he's doing, no. He's just a hungry traveler. He started the mechanism, who made him responsible not only for his stomach, but for hundreds of followers and for the unborn child. He is not a hero, he is not a leader, he is a man who accidentally broke through the wall of indecision.
It is the desire to understand the possible causes of the chaos that has ensued and the attempt to believe in people capable of resisting lawlessness that elevates this film far beyond where it ended up. And people who have not spared verbal turns to censure him should not be taken seriously, they do not make revolutions and they do not return everything to normal. These people will settle down under any regime. Resistance to chaos is assumed by young people, they are not afraid to die, their dream burns a bright star, burning beckoning to themselves. Ford Lincoln Mercury (Lorenz Tate) it was he who, grasping the faint ray of this very star, awakened the real force. You believe in his enthusiasm, the frustration of trying to take a step back. People like him are the first to die.
The biggest impression was made by Will Patton. General Bethlehem, with his megalomaniac desire to find and defeat a worthy adversary, inexorably strives to destroy the war machine he controls. Any fanaticism, any blind faith is viable only under conditions of continuous expansion, in a continuous state of complete subjugation of people. As soon as there is nowhere to expand their ideology, the army of Holnists will fall under the pressure of internal tension. Bethlehem understands this perfectly. His main goal is to keep his name in history. He is like Herostratus who burned the temple of Artemis, wants to be alive after death.
Kevin Costner is pretty gray, and somehow you don't believe that he's capable of organizing intelligent resistance. And here Costner decided not to pour a ton of pathos on the viewer. The postman won without wanting it, all his actions are stupid and should alienate his followers. Well, it did. As sung in one humorous song, "Well, who does not understand this general kindness, they should put nuts, nails and bolts in their pants." The resistance, which began according to the precepts of Gandhi, crossed the line of bloodlessness. Kindness must be with your fists, otherwise you will be harnessed and let around like a circus pony. It will be too late to explain that two and two are four and that my home is my home.
Most sensible people, which I hope I am, are firmly convinced that what is happening now will correspond to what is shown in the film. And the winners are now holnists, and the winners in the end will be Postmen.
Evaluation
A tramp turned soldier. A soldier turned postman. The postman who did nothing.
You know, when I started watching the movie, I was expecting the title to be a movie about the hard life of a simple postman who did a lot of good things in life and by the end of the movie, I thought I should have admired him. It's like "The Pianist." But that was not the case.
Yes, with the plot I did not lose, the story about the postman, by the end of the film, according to the idea of the director Costner, everyone should admire him. But otherwise, it is not at all as it should be in such a movie.
So I'll start with the flaws. First of all, there are a lot of flaws and film blunders. It's just a lot. Well, for example, the main character is shot, and then, somehow miraculously, he is healed, and no one even wants to hint what kind of magic it is. Then the moment when the weapon runs out of ammunition, and after some time, living in the wilderness, from where the ammunition appears. I don't know how many, but one shot was for sure. Moving on, the moment he runs past the boy with a letter, and after skipping a long time, turns around and finds himself next to this boy. And with such pathos takes away this letter from him. I will not list further, I think it is clear that there are many shortcomings.
Second, Costner's game... This is the first film I watch. So I don’t know if he’s a bad actor or not in this movie. Maybe it's because he took on a lot, and the lead role and director's chair. Of course, there are many cases when the director is both an actor and a good movie. But not here. I didn’t see the emotions he needed for a movie like this. He had to have faith in something, compassion, or something, but I didn’t see anything. And the way it shows a feeling of fatigue is more like a wound.
Third, the script itself. And this can not be attributed to blunders, when the hero, having said a few words to the boy and disappeared for some time, with the return finds that a whole post office with a bunch of employees has already formed. When? How? Where has the main villain been all this time? Again, we can only guess. And about the wonderful reincarnation of the hero, I am silent. It turns out that when a person shaves, no one will recognize him. What else can I say? Well, when they show the end of the film, the viewer has no desire to admire the actions of the postman, they simply did not exist.
In the fourth, these are places of filming and scenery. Dear Kevin, it's 2013, and from the scenery I thought it was the 18th century. In some places, people have electricity, modern weapons, ammunition for them, and in some places people bathe in 18th century bathtubs, instead of candlelight, and swords, replacing weapons. I know it's a post-apocalypse, but I had to figure out what was and what wasn't. I’m going to finish with the flaws.
But still, despite this huge number of disadvantages, there are pluses. For example, Patton’s game, it is interesting to listen to him, to watch him, a villain, of course, but he said a lot of things right, and most importantly, how he served. That's what Costner was missing.
The music is good, but there is very little. There were funny jokes, Costner was funny. Yes, and the film as a whole looks interesting, I would not say that these three hours are just the torture. But given the shortcomings, only
Once upon a time, when the Internet was not so ubiquitous, and when Interplay was still being developed in the depths of Fallout 3, I was very passionate about dystopia and in particular the nuclear post-apocalypse. After squeezing Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 down to the thread, I started looking for something similar to satisfy my hunger. Since I was a kid, I started looking for it on screen. But to my deepest regret, neither then nor now this topic is not so much loved on the screens, as for example, youth “toilet” humor, or, say, vampires. But one day, in the evening, I accidentally stumbled upon a film from the series that show after twelve in the night, I think on RTR (now it is the channel “Russia-1”, I think). This film immediately caught my attention - it had post-apocalyptic landscapes. After watching it from the middle to the end, even though my mom insisted on going to school tomorrow, I fell in love with the story forever. Later I found the book and read it to the holes, and found all the inconsistencies and liberties of the script, but the film seemed to me a separate story that deserved to be.
David Brin wrote a great novel, and Kevin Costner did it in the way that could best be done with the novel “The Postman”, removing everything that is not removed properly and adding the so-called “filmconsti”.
When I watched it as a kid - I watched the atmosphere and the scope; after watching this movie older - I found drama and tragedy.
This is one of the best films in its genre. The world described by Brin and embodied on the screen by Costner is mesmerizing with its pessimistic devastation and incredible depression. One person, on the scale of this catastrophe, is even more insignificant than in today’s impersonal world. This is the story of one man who was able to change the world, not because he is a hero, but because he had to become a hero.
This is a film about how a person can change and become more than he is.
Time did not bother this film - it still looks great, and the timing is still amazing.
10 out of 10
The film “The Postman”, the most brilliant actor and director Kevin Costner, I watched back in 2009. After that, I got into the habit of watching this movie at least once a year. The film made an indelible impression on me. How can you forget a movie that has everything you need? An interesting plot, beautiful music, good actors and the belief that there are still noble and capable of self-sacrifice people in the world. A belief that many people have stopped believing. I often meet reviews that the film killed the idea of the novel of the same name, on which the film was made, that the film could be made in the genre of a stupid action-fighter and from this he (supposedly) would have become better. But most of all I am amazed by the reviews, where it is said that Kevin Costner this film just elevates his ego.
I want to assure you right away that such reviews were written by non-distant people.
First, the idea in the film was not killed. I certainly haven’t read the novel, but from other reviews I can understand that the idea was that one person can, without knowing it, revive hope for a bright future in the hearts of desperate people. People who have watched the film carefully will agree with me that the idea in the film is fully conveyed. There are a lot of scenes that make you want to cry. Remember at least (sorry for spoilers) the shooting of peaceful people, during which a person at first does not believe in the postman, and in general in the bright future, shouts “Download the postman!” Jump! Well, or that, no less emotional, and heartbreaking scene, when the postman picks up a letter from a little boy. This is certainly not all the most beautiful scenes from no less beautiful film.
Secondly, there is nothing superfluous in the film, and everything is in moderation. It's not an action movie, not even a thriller. It's drama. The drama in which we see people, their dreams, their anxieties - their lives. For three hours (many people say that the film is too long, but when you watch the film you get the impression that you saw two pictures at once). And that's great, we see the character of the main character changing. As an ordinary person who cares only about himself and how to survive, he becomes a hero (although he did not expect it).
And third, I would like to say that Kevin Costner does not suffer (as many people write) megalomania. He was able to create something on the screen that not everyone can do now, with cool equipment, special effects and a billion-dollar budget.
I also don’t understand Americans. After all, I, the Russian audience, liked this film so much that I am ready to review indefinitely, despite the fact that the film is mainly about America, but as they say, “All people are first people, and only then are divided into national characteristics.”
What else I wanted to say about this film, is that the film can be safely put in line with such modern blockbusters as “The Dark Knight: The Return of Legend” and two versions. Robin Hood (Ridley Scott and Kevin Reynolds) And I think you know which one will be the leader. After all, this picture, like his character, became not just a person or a film. He became a legend. At least for me.
10 out of 10
P.S. This film (again, like its hero) gives hope that our compatriots will one day learn to shoot such masterpieces.
I wonder why everyone is so excited about this movie. What is the worst film of the decade? It's funny. Politics and nothing more.
The only real drawback of the picture is its absolutely unjustified timing. That's what it is. It is strongly not recommended to watch TV - given the advertising, you can turn off for a good half a day from life. However, in this case, and “clean game” time is unacceptable. Hard to watch. Everything else is more than acceptable to me. On the masterpiece, I agree, will not pull, but the story is definitely interesting, and the visual part inspires no less.
It was definitely worth sacrificing some fragments, pieces, directions. Perhaps the most common, first and foremost. The same romantic line, for example, I would be among the first to put under the knife. Without the slightest conscience. And not because I don't like O. Williams or her character. Not at all. Just all this has happened more than once, and, consequently, nothing valuable picture does not give, at the same time noticeably burdening it with its presence.
I dare think that the actions of the main character, his transformation, if I may say so, are much more due to other external factors and circumstances than the periodic presence of a foreign widow nearby. They should pay more attention! At the end of the day, the main idea of the film is that it gave people hope. So let’s focus on how it happened!
Moreover, everything that is most interesting and valuable in the picture is connected exactly with the change in the attitude of the actors to the surrounding reality. Distrust and fear are replaced by the desire to “do with him, do like him, do better than him.” Sheriff, urging the Postman to jump, without stopping, postmaster Ford Lincoln Mercury, not just appreciated, but developed and brought to a qualitatively new level suggested idea – these are the true heroes of the film. Plus, of course, you can not do without a worthy opponent: not a mad fanatic sadist, but an ideologue! All this is, it was only necessary to correctly dispose of the available material. And then, who knows, perhaps the estimate would be much more weighty than the current one.
7 out of 10
