Mad Max-Max: Fury Road

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Mad Max: Fury road Analysis
Survival, The primary theme of Mad Max: Fury Road is survival and maintenance of mankind in the face of apocalyptic events. The theme of humankind is outlined by Max starting the film a non-domesticated wandered, at that point rediscovering his previous dignity by joining forces with Furiosa.
Miller is telling a symbolic story, not a linear one. That story happens to be about war and its aftermath, slavery, the objectification of human beings, and PTSD. The medium he uses to tell this story happens to be an action movie, more specifically a car chase. However, an interesting underlying subtext of the film is how Miller takes our expectations and subverts them. We hear action movie and we think San Andreas. We hear …show more content…

They have been crammed into a tiny, hot, waterless space under a tanker truck in order to escape their rapist. At least two of them are pregnant with their rapist’s babies (Miller). They are not a pampered harem they are prisoners, who are risking their lives to escape sexual slavery and give their children a different life. And look at the scene again: Max does not focus on the women; his attention is on the water. Water is even more precious than gasoline in this version of Mad Max a fact underscored later on when Max washes his bloodied face with breastmilk and they have a whole host of it. To go even further, Miller is showing us a scene that could be sexy in the way as I saw in the movie models in see through clothes spraying water on each other, with the water a stand in for a different liquid substance (Gallagher). But Miller subverts every aspect of that cliché. In this case, the hose full of water is just a hose full of water the most precious thing they could have in the Waste. The diaphanous dresses are their prison uniforms. Given that no one else in the film is dressed like this, I think it’s safe to assume that these are the clothes required by Immortan Joe. The first thing they do even as they are drinking water they take turns freeing each other from hideous chastity belts, reclaiming their bodies. They are no longer things, they are not a harem, and they are not Joe’s slaves. The Splendid Angara drives …show more content…

Nux has been trained to live for a fiery death, and he gets it, but he gets it on his own new terms. Having experienced something like real love with Capable, he sacrifices himself to kill Rictus and save the woman he was maybe starting to hope he had a future with. This is terrible, and I felt it more than any of the other deaths in the film, but it also allows him to transform his destiny. Rather than being a slave to Joe’s war machine, he is a free and independent young man who sacrifices himself for others by his own choice

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