How To Write An Essay On The Movie Waterworld

I watched the 1995 film, Waterworld, which had a running time of two hours and fifteen minutes. The film is set in the distant future at a time when the polar ice caps have melted and covered the globe with water, submerging the Earth’s land masses. The initial opening credits in fact, begin with the Universal Studios traditional logo of a spinning globe, but this time the melting polar ice caps are shown shrinking as the land is swallowed by the sea. It is a powerful statement even before the film begins. The main character, a loner known simply as Mariner, sails the world’s oceans in a catamaran, occasionally trading with communities who live on atolls, man-made floating fortresses designed to keep out a violent group of society known as smokers. The Mariner has evolved to adapt to this new watery existence and has webbing between his toes and gills that allow him to breathe underwater. This ability to swim underwater has left the Mariner in the position of knowing that hundreds of years ago man lived in vast cities that were on land. Much of what the Mariner has to trade comes from his excursions into these drowned cityscapes. In this new world, the two most valuable commodities for trade are fresh water, known

Mariner is freed by a woman named Helen during a smoker attack, on the provision that he takes her and a young girl named Enola with him to safety. Enola is being sought by the smokers as she has a map tattooed on her back that purports to show the way to dry land, a place talked about in myth and