Kevin Costner Movies: America's New Drug of Choice

With the ever increasing reliance on technology such as TV's and computers, the human mind is now beginning to think virtually. Human beings no longer have to occupy their minds with medial tasks such as collecting fire wood and growing crops. They are capable of spending their free time and moments of enjoyment, in their TV room with family and friends. But who judges whether the movies they watch are healthy for their soul? This essay intends to revert the hypothesis that Kevin Costner movies are 'feel-good' movies.

In this study i will focus on two particular Kevin Costner movies to illustrate my point. These are of course 'Field of Dreams' and 'Waterworld'.

People that have seen the movie 'field of Dreams', will testify that it creates a cyclical pattern of emotions. One will feel very happy during parts of the flim; however extreme depression will also be created. Psychologists believe, that Field of Dreams has very small negative effects for children, and that it is more dangerous for adults that are older than 40.

In the movie, several dead baseball players, come back to life. Not only are they able to play baseball again, but they come back to life in their prime. They are young, handsome and athletic. The older viewers will feel very upset about this. They will look back on their life, and realize all of their missed chances and come to a general feeling of disaproval of their own life. They will wish that they too could go back in time, and be the person 'they once were'. One will however get dragged back into the story line, and transfer this immense depression into immense happiness. There are scenes in the movie that were made to be universally agreeable. Meaning that no one, regardless of their age, will be upset about them. Such scenese as the little girl having her life saved and also Kevin Costner remembering to throw the baseball again. This will drag the older people out of their depression for a brief moment, only to throw them into an even more immense state of depression once they get back into their own reality, and out of the fictional Costner reality. It is very clear that Kevin Costner movies are a drug capable of personality change. And what shouldn't you do when you are on drugs? Drive!

However, Kevin Costner had an enormous impact on American accidents, after his film waterworld. Lets look at boating accidents before and after the release of the 1995 movie Waterworld. Keep in mind that it came out during July of 95, so a good portion of the boating season had already taken place.



One finds interesting results. Kevin Costners movie 'Waterworld' actually initially increased the amount of boating deaths for the year 1995. Yet, after 1995, when one has a full boating season to look at the results, the movie Waterwolrd, actually decreased the amount of American boating deaths. How is this possible? Well this is common with the emotional cycles that follow a Kevin Costner movie. Ups and downs. Moments of tender elation vs. moments of vivid sorrow; moments of life vs. moments of death.

In conclusion, Kevin Costner movies are very depressing for people over the age of 40. There are only two types of people that are not effected by these movies. People that are not yet in their prime, or people that are satisfied with life. Otherwise, don't use or abuse Costner.