Mad Max: Fury Road

Mad Max: Fury Road

Mad Max: Fury Road is a story about emancipation.
Female emancipation and the retaking of agency,  but also the reclamation and restoration of the earth’s resources, and freely sharing that abundance without greed. 

Mad Max seems like it was super fun to make. It wasn’t concerned with shocking the audience or sweeping them off their feet. Rather, its candidness and the matter-of-fact manner it announced itself with was incredibly charming. The worldbuilding, production design, and acting were filled to the brim with passion and creativity. It seemed like a film made by insanely inventive and fun-loving people.

Words cannot describe how grateful I am for this film. The worldbuilding, setting, and message are recognisable but refreshing. The fact that it wasn’t based on a comic series or book really surprised me, and makes the franchise all the more appealing. The way it took George Miller decades to prepare for Fury Road and then seeing it actualised on the big screen is so touching. I can only imagine what it felt like for him.

I was particularly impressed by The Wives, played by Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Zoë Kravitz, Riley Keough, Abbey Lee and Courtney Eaton. To portray a heavily abused yet highly treasured woman takes a lot of nuance. What’s more impressive is that all of them had separate personalities and developed differently. It was pretty touching to watch their self-perception evolve throughout the story. The Wives were handled really conscientiously by both the writers and the cast. 

My praise for the production of Mad Max: Fury Road really solidified when my dad casually pulled out a book full of concept art and cast & crew interviews (how cool is that??). Every detail was so deliberate and the message of the film - emancipation, a retaking of nature from greed and tyranny - was so central to the decisions being made. 

Mad Max feels like a franchise I’ll get to know more, and I truly hope I’ll grow to love what I find. There is still so much I don’t know about, such as the previous instalments, George Miller’s work and Australian cultural influences, to name a few. But I have a sneaking feeling that knowing those details will only make me respect the franchise more.

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