Mad Max: Fury Road

[El Dingo]

This movie is obsessing my soul.

[SPOILERS]




I went online to search for some opinions on basic symbolism. I noticed that the leader of Gas Town (People Eater) dressed in a 3-piece suit and complained about profits. He had an enlarged (lead) foot and his car was a monster-Mercedes. The leader of the Bullet Farmers drives blindly into battle firing at the people he promised not to kill.

Apparently, this movie has become the new "2001: A Space Odyssey" of epic dissertations. The villainous leaders are the four horsemen of the apocalypse (with Max being Death - through remorse for those he failed to save). Men are responsible for destruction because all the women in the film are givers of life. Global Warming leads to a global battle over natural resources leading to nuclear war. Technology is cloaked in religion so only a chosen few can learn its secrets. The War Boys are Islamic suicide bombers. It goes on and on. One complaint was that Immortan Joe's wives wore skimpy clothing (and chastity belts). I wanted to shout "NO ONE EVER SAW THEM BESIDES MISS KITTY".

There is a close up of a pregnant woman's stomach and a dripping hose as she brings water to a thirsty Max. Giver of life? Reading too much? ARRGH!

Rictus Erectus got buff through a lifelong diet of mother's milk. At the end of the movie the life-giving mothers provide life-giving water to the citadel dwellers. Anyone could have flipped the switch. Why choose the nursemaids?

It's a freaking rabbit-hole of interpretation for a Mad Max movie.

This movie has serious, Kubrick-level symbolism, similes and metaphors that will keep film-students talking for ages.

Or George Miller made a movie that is so stupid it's forcing people to construct their own college-level theories to explain it.

So bizarre for a summer action flick.