This is one of the best action movies of the 2010s. George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road resurrected the Mad Max franchise with flying colors. A movie worth (re)watching before it leaves the Netflix catalog.
What is it about?
Warning: Scenes, words or images may offend the sensitivities of viewers.
Mad Max, haunted by a difficult past, believes that the best way to survive is to be alone. However, he finds himself among a group traveling through Desolation in a military vehicle piloted by Emperor Furiosa. They escape from the citadel, where the fearsome undead Joe is on the rampage, having stolen an irreplaceable item. Enraged, this warrior sends his men to relentlessly hunt down the rebels…
Mad Max: Fury Road written by George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, Nick Latourise, directed by George Miller with Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Zoë Kravitz, Nicholas Hoult… Available until September 8 on Netflix.
More than an action movie
Considered one of the best action movies ever made. Mad Max: Fury Road It is a technical and visual marvel. For the most part, the show stands on its own. However, it takes several viewings and an attentive ear to understand how the Fury Road universe works. In this way, dedicated viewers will discover that the film is deeper than meets the eye.
Mad Max: Fury Road was released in 2015. Directed and co-written by George Miller, it stars Tom Hardy as Max, Charlize Theron as Furiosa, and Nicholas Hoult as Nux. The movie was a hit. The box office gross was $375. million worldwide on a budget of $185 million.
Still widely acclaimed by critics and fans alike, it received ten Academy Award nominations at the 88th ceremony, including Best Director and Best Picture, and won six for Outstanding Technical Ability. Based on the success of Fury Road, George Miller planned to launch a new trilogy in the Mad Max universe and also announced a prequel to the Furiosa character.
Charlize Theron as Furiosa
visionary
Before Fury Road, we know that the world has become a vast wasteland due to war and resource depletion, but there is no story or context to explain exactly what happened or what the effects of these crises were. So George Miller presents this story using the setting.
Mad Max and his companions survive the environmental apocalypse. Wars or overconsumption in the past have caused great cataclysms on Earth. We realize this before this desert space and weather conditions, as evidenced by the massive dust storm that nearly destroyed the War Rig, Furiosa’s vehicle.
On a more serious note, Furiosa is devastated to learn that her haven, “The Green Place,” has turned into a swamp since she last saw it. This means that during his lifetime the environment changed dramatically and is still changing.
Accumulating resources is a matter of survival in post-apocalyptic worlds, but the way necessities like water and milk have turned them into wealth. Immortal Joe, the God-King of the Citadel, sells them as commodities called “Aqua-Cola” and “Mother’s Milk” to nearby city-states.
Tom Hardy and George Miller on the set
The transport truck that Furiosa used to escape with the brides was meant to trade milk for gasoline as she left the Citadel. The existence of such a system shows that a long period of time has passed between the dramatic events of the ancient world and the present. Max and Furiosa could be second generation survivors of the apocalypse or maybe they were little kids when things changed.
Mad Max: Fury Road is an action thriller, no doubt, but it’s also a rich story that presents the consequences of consumerism and current capitalism. If the world continues to consume at such an outrageous rate, George Miller suggests a scenario for our future: the disintegration of civilization into tribal city-states ruled by maniacs who believe they are immortal.
A society sinking into extreme poverty and slavery.
Source: allocine
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