Answer:
In the movie, The Patriot, a 2000 American epic historical fiction war film, set up in rural South Carolina. The boys get excited to read the mail because mails were the only source to know about the outside world. Mails were part of the colonial life, they were used to spread the news of the current event. In this movie, boys were excited because they knew the tense situation in the colonies, among the settlers and the Britishers, which would lead them in the revolutionary war.