This article has some pretty bigFuriosa: A Mad Max Saga spoilers.
For 18 years and 148 minutes of runtime, Furiosa simply wants to go home.
After all, none of Millers characters have ever called their world a home, much less a country.
Which brings us back to the finale of the film and how that tree is finally planted.
Such is the fate Furiosa finds herself staring down at the end of her own origin story.
So too is Furiosas pain just the consequence of Dementus own ancient personal history.
Its implied he suffered a tragedy probably not unlike what Max Rockatansky endured in the first movie.
As it has now Furiosas.
Years later hell even take a perverse pride at seeing the stone-cold killer she became because of his cruelties.
But she doesnt kill him.
Its a macabre and scientifically dubious fate.
Its also strangely beatific.
As our narrator explains the divine retribution, we watch Furiosa visit the tree some years after its planting.
Now the vegetation grows ripe with peaches that are as full as Dementus is emaciated.
There is beauty in this, aye, and salvation too.
The Green Place was taken from her, and shell never step foot in that paradise again.
She is banished like the Bibles Eve.
However, unlike that famous tale, Millers protagonist is not depicted as having done anything wrong or wanting.
It is the men around her who cast her into exile and hell.
The legacy of her idealized Green Place lives on in the Citadel she refuses to call home.
Immortan Joes wives eat the fruit as their hopes for more from this ruined land grow.
And they make those hopes a reality by fleeing with Furiosa from the Immortans clutches.
We know due to the events ofMad Max: Fury Roadthat their destination is a mirage.
There is no more Green Place.
There is nowhere else.
This is the Wasteland.
So Furiosa is going to be forced to make somewhere else a reality.
But he remains circumspect of what that might look like.
But we suggest looking again at that tree.
Furiosa could never gain satisfaction from simply killing Dementus.
The tree is proof that, eventually, Furiosa will finally be able to get back home.
Furiosa is in theaters now.
