Fabian Ellis’s review published on Letterboxd:
I thought about watching this today because it’s a scary look at a world where those with the actual power are lacking a care for nature and there’s no growth. Human characters who have been made to become so narcissistic that they forget to care for the world around them & find themselves in an oil crisis. Americans in an unrecognisable desert and the confusion of action. It has resonance with the United States’ current involvement in the Middle East & Furiosa is being made perhaps to address the ominous potential re-election of Donald Trump. Fury Road isn’t my favourite George Miller film, though the 3D is like magic. Personally, I prefer Happy Feet’s experimental approach to penguins and plastic and still remember it from when I was a child. (I just turned 20! 🎉) I think Three Thousand Years Of Longing is just phenomenal and the fantasy genre & meta textual cinema about the study of storytelling is peak as well.
In Mad Max Fury Road, we have characters faced with communication and culture differences. They get half way back to Furiosa’s home, they survive. Then, they go back to the present and are forced to fight Immortan Joe to heal the broken system. For the heroes, peace seems to be enough of a reward with a triumphant, American musical score from Junkie XL at the ending. However, as well as Furiosa, I’d like to see a sequel to this film.
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