The heat wave, the energy crisis, and the climate outlook are hardly encouraging … and have led us to think that the dystopian future painted by George Miller in his “Mad Max” saga is not as distant as we can imagine.
“I remember a time of chaos, a time of shattered dreams, a time of ruined lands, but above all, I remember a road warrior. The man we called Max. To understand who this person was, you have to go back to someone else. The time when the world was running on black fuel and big cities of pipes and steel were flourishing in the deserts … now it is gone, gone …
For reasons now forgotten, two powerful tribes went to war, igniting a fire that engulfed both. Without fuel they were nothing. Their empire was beige. The sound of cars sighed and he died. The leaders talked and talked … and talked again. But nothing could stop the catastrophe.
Their world was destroyed… cities exploded, causing a looting tornado. The raging wind of fear. The man began to feed the man. A white line nightmare reigned on the roads. Only the most mobile buccans survived, the most ruthless robbers …
Gangs controlled roads that were ready for war on a can of fuel. In the whirlpool of this rot, ordinary mortals were broken, shattered. Men like Max, Max Warrior. He lost everything in the engine noise …
And he became an empty, consumed, devastated man, a man haunted by the demons of his past, a man who wandered aimlessly in the deserts. Here, in this cursed place, he learned to live again … “
Mad Max, a lover of survival
You can recognize the narrator’s voice prologue by opening Mad Max 2, which supports the disturbing editing of more or less archival footage that shows a civilization that is collapsing on its own. In fact, George Miller laid the groundwork for a dystopian world plagued by chaos and subject to the law of the strong from his 1979 film The Post-Apocalyptic Saga Matrix.
Moreover, a friend advised him, quite rightly, to take into account the consequences of the first oil crisis in his film, which occurred in 1973, which had major repercussions on oil imports to Australia.
Mad Max Shared his wallpaper with Green Sun, which came out of its first oil shock just a year later. Forced industrial development and its destruction, the uncontrollable effects of over-consumption, and the depletion of natural resources – fossil fuels, especially oil – have completed the mortgage of humanity’s future in just a few decades.
A frustrated tomorrow is widespread in science fiction; A genre that defines our fears about social or technological change. In The green sunThe cataclysm happened by erosion: the end of the world with the disappearance of the element necessary for our existence, in this case water and food.
But the agony of the human species was slow and progressive – as it underlines the extraordinary opening credits -; The time it takes to deplete the planet’s resources. Mad Max Even more radical: After the nuclear war, humanity almost returned to the Stone Age.
A more dystopian future …
Last February, the IPCC, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, established in 1988, Presented a new report, absolutely devastating. Episodes of heat waves like we currently have will be very frequent. And even more.
In October 2021, the British newspaper Telegraph published the following article: “How Crazy Max Predicted the British Fuel Crisis”. A condition that has hardly improved and worsened. “United Kingdom Mad Max Mode” We can read an article in Le Courrier International published in April 2022 in the Daily Telegraph.
“The UK is experiencing its biggest oil crisis in years, affecting millions of people who need to heat their homes, fill their cars and cook. The Ukraine war sparked gasoline and diesel prices. Mad Max movies were inspired. Oil shock of the 1970s: in 2022 it looks less fictional than it really is.
Mad Max on the tape road, George Miller It pushes the paroxysm of a disintegrated society even further, fetishizing more (except for the car) oil, more precious than life (for some, in any case …). Immortal Joe, the warlord who reigns from the top of the citadel, calms the fuss of the plebs, opening the valves of giant water pumps from time to time to satisfy them. Not so; Enough of his tyrannical dependence.
“I’m just telling a story in response to how I perceive the world”
“There is an environmental story, but it is in the subtext of the film. It is unfortunate that the viewer does not really need much exposure to buy into this degraded world, as we are already seeing evidence of this around us.” Said Miller a An interesting interview from an Australian authority in April 2015.
The disgusting storms of the movie, a kind of fictional analogue Giant current dust cups ? absolutely. “In the movie we call them a toxic storm. But this is not so far from the truth. In Australia, when the conditions are right, this big dust storm moves across the landscape and often into cities.
In the middle of the day the sun will be darkened by this mass of red dust. I fell into a few of them; Like most Australians. We just go further in the film. But he is not trying to chronicle the world’s environmental collapse. He says, “Here is the world that remains. There is no ideological agenda in my film. I am just telling a story in response to the perception of the world.”
There is no political or ideological agenda Mad Max Tape Road ? Maybe, if you say so. Nevertheless, Miller the Septuagint conveyed cinematic experience in the form of a pure uppercut. Thirty years after the last opus of Mad Max’s saga, he revisited the myth he created himself in a completely insane show. The work is full of sound accurately and furiously. To view or re-view on Netflix.
Source: allocine
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