It is hard enough to find enough resources and food to survive in an eschatological world. But it might be even harder everyday jobs to pursue. That’s exactly what we can now experience with Amazon Prime Video.
In Postman, Kevin Costner (also directed and produced) plays a postman who after the apocalypse Daily written communication is guaranteed.
A postman as a savior of humanity: Kevin Costner’s Postman epic on Amazon Prime Video
Postman is set in the United States in 2013. However, humanity is shattered by a nuclear attack. The survivors live in scattered settlements that are terrorized by criminals. A nameless hiker (Costner) escapes from this gang and from now on disguises himself as a postman. This gives him access to the protected settlements and provides him with food and shelter.
Lester Berman, Kevin Costner, Steve Tisch, Jim Wilson
Kevin Costner as Postman
From now on, the postman delivers the letters in Pineview. He settles there an affair with the married Abby (Olivia Williams) who is looking for his sperm donor. However, the incident means he has to move to the next settlement.
But the brutal General Bethlehem (Will Patton) gets wind of the matter. He learns that hope is emerging in people to restore an orderly social structure. Bethlehem then tries by all means to suppress this thought as quickly as possible.
Kevin Costner has experience with apocalyptic films
Kevin Costner knows each other excellent in the end times genre. In Waterworld he worked as both a producer and an actor. However, both films fell far short of expectations at the box office. Postman is even considered one of the biggest flops in film history. With a budget of 80 million US dollars, it was only able to bring in 20 million US dollars worldwide, as The Numbers writes.
Postman shows a possible picture of how society could develop. Totalitarian regimes, diseases and social chaos are popular topics. Postman doesn’t shy away from showing a terrible outcome for civilization. You can now do it yourself a picture on Amazon determine in which direction humanity could drift.
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