Mad Max: Fury Roadis brilliant.
Summer blockbuster season is well and truly here, andFury Roadkicked it up to a higher gear.
People loveFury Roadand have embraced it whole-heartedly.
The most notable critics are a small-yet-vocal bunch of insecure, attention-seeking men (meninists?)
unhappy at the prominence of Charlize Theron and feminist elements in their Mad Max movie.
Their boycott calls, bitching, moaning and trolling have all quite rightly been condemned and ridiculed.
This movie takes the notion of victimhood and runs it over.
Proactive positivity and defiant never-say-die determination are encoded into the bones and DNA of this beast.
At the opening, our man Max states My world is fire.
The picture painted is an appalling and frighteningly awesome one.
Of all conceivable futures,Fury Roadis one of the most nightmarish.
In the wake of oil wars and water wars, Earth is an irradiated great emptiness.
Our gaze is chiefly centred on the Citadel dominated by Immortan Joes cult of personality.
Most humans here are deformed, diseased or just straight-up grotesque to obscene proportions.
Oh, what a day!
What a lovely day!
Altogether, I survey this so-called wasteland and contemplate the mindsets of its figures and come away inspired.
Thus, sayeth the Road Warrior, my world is reduced to a single instinct: survive.
Maxs great resilience and resolve to survive never wavers.
Max doesnt care, though.
He keeps on going, fighting to survive, successfully escaping every imprisonment and fatal entanglement.
These qualities endear him to Furiosa and the Wives who find in him a useful, kindred spirit.
Those women become a momentary righteous cause for Max, and their convergence is a perfect proactive cocktail.
(And that combination packs a hell of a punch, and then some.)
At least that way well be able to… together… come across some kind of redemption.
As it is with Max, so it is with the female protagonists who dominate and ownFury Road.
It really doesnt bear thinking about.
The audience never views them as victims because they arent and because they refuse to be.
Led by Furiosa and rallying round the We are not things!
mantra, they take action and ride off towards liberated self-determination.
Like Max, they fight off anyone and anything that threatens to prevent their passage or freedom.
Thats just one act among the many exemplifying the survivalist spirit and proactive willpower of these women.
Join them with the Vulvani (a.k.a.
the Many Mothers) and weve got even more assured female empowerment.
The women ofFury Roadexist on their own terms and set those terms.
Then theres Furiosa explicitly expressing the objective of redemption, and thats a poignant word worth noting.
Redemption is something soul-fulfilling salvation and self-liberation.
If Im gonna die, Im gonna die historic on a fury road!
Sure, its true that they are diseased cannon (car?)
If Im gonna die, Im gonna die historic on a fury road!
What a lovely day!
This movie is a masterpiece of empowerment and to watch it is to feel an inspiring psychic surge.
This action cinema revelation is driving us towards hope, enlightenment and redemption.
Watch again, witness.
