Tuomas’s review published on Letterboxd:
Didn't have the best viewing experience because it turns out that some blu-ray transitions are quite bad! Haven't had a problem with sound or video quality on my computer in ages, so imagine my shock that a blu-ray somehow had very poor sound.
Anyways, the first time I've rewatched Fury Road in a solid minute, four years if I'm not mistaken. The film operates like such a smooth machine and I never can't not be amazed by how stripped down and economical the storytelling is. For a story as simple as this, it's astonishing how much world building and character work the film accomplishes.
I remember specifically when it was released that there were a bunch of people going on about how the film isn't even really a Mad Max movie, it's more a Furiosa movie, which never made any sense to me. Max is very much the lead of the movie, what he is not is the instigator of the story. He simply, once again, wanders into the troubles of other people, helps them out and then walks into the sunset, much like he's done before.
Really the fact that Furiosa gets to control the plot is an amazingly adept way of allowing Max to have a transformation arc. Furiosa doesn't really change, the only pivotal thing she experiences is disillusionment over reality not living up to her imagination. Max is the one who gets to change. He begins the film with the incredibly simple set-up of through exposition underlining how life in the wasteland has reduced him to the simplest of human instincts: survive.
He begrudgingly helps the girls out because Furiosa refuses to help him without them all coming along. He sees the wives as an unnecessary burden and a liability, so he wants nothing to do with them, but since he can't get away with the truck without Furiosa and Furiosa won't leave the wives behind, this one merry found family has to put their differences asides for the sake of the wasteland road trip.
There's something so deeply compelling to me to witness Max as a man who is so pragmatic and uncaring survivalist, slowly find affinity for others, eventually reaching a point where he's no longer a man reduced to a survival instinct. He's not gonna settle down because he never can. He lost everything worth settling down for a long time ago and staying put would simply remind him of the ones he misses. He's a broken individual, but he still cares and with each story, the necessity of community and helping one another is underlined.
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