Like most viewers, I thought it was a typical wasteland post-apocalyptic story, with a lone hero surviving violent and bloody killings and a grey-toned ending that is so prevalent in such pessimistic themes.
Very punk?
Very hardcore?
Very chicken?
NO,no,no
Wrong, this movie was released in Hollywood in the 1990s. Plasma movies have not yet become popular, and there is a core figure in the production team watching the movie - Kevin Costner.
The values of his works are basically very traditional and decent, and Happy ending is an unwritten rule of the movie at that time.
Sure enough, after a third of the story, the rambunctious protagonist, whose goals, values, and values are uncertain, finally got a relevant character identity - a postman because he slept in an old mail truck.
Then, after a few days in the town where the crowd adored her, there was a splendid and bizarre episode in which the heroine borrowed this kind of edge ball from him.
So basically, this is a heroic feature film with an atypical hero.
The motive of the protagonist's behavior is always unclear. His core goal is to go to the legendary Rose Garden of Eden, but he accidentally puts on the clothes of a postman, and is placed on him by the kind survivors. His responsibilities drove him to be the man everyone wanted to deliver a message for a divided and disconnected world, and more importantly, to take on the name of the long-defunct U.S. government.
We watched the character's growth from escaping responsibility to taking responsibility, and through this process we realized the theme implied in the story - a sense of honor, or more precisely, freedom under American values. Spiritual honor.
The sense of honor in this profession brings out the higher spiritual connotation of freedom, order, and equality.
It is the responsibility of the postman to connect people, rain or shine, to maintain an effective order, and with this responsibility it is possible to restore social order.
This pursuit of social order under traditional values will inevitably conflict with the new tyranny order represented by the villain.
It has also become the problem that the postman has to face and the hero of the film has to solve in the end.
So, peel back the dystopia and you'll be surprised to find:
There are small town residents who sing folk songs and can sing and dance;
There was the energetic 17-year-old black postmaster who quietly rebuilt the post office system;
There are lovely villains who can draw oil paintings and occasionally complete two lines from Shakespeare's plays;
Even those dragon soldiers will be quiet like a child when they watch "The Sound of Music";
Oh, I just realized here, this is a family movie dressed up as a wasteland apocalypse movie.
Identification is completed.
I wish you a happy New Year's work ~ Li Shi Duo Duo ~
2019.2
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