Mad Max Fury Road Analysis

Mad Max: Fury road is a riveting new take on the classic series, and it keeps the audience captivated the entire film. Besides the non-stop action and intense imagery, the film has a surprising amount of depth and character development throughout it. The movie reflects real ideas of nuclear disaster, war, slavery, sexism, propaganda, god status, oppression, and relentless vestiges hope. Mad Max: Fury Road is a fast-paced post-apocalyptic action film directed by George Miller that focuses on revolution and redemption. The movie is set in the near future, in which the world has become a barren dystopian wasteland ruled by bike gangs, outlaws, and authoritarian governments. Humanity is broken, and civilization has descended into madness. All that is left of humanity is war and …show more content…
Next to be introduced is Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron), a woman who is a trusted driver employed by Immortan Joe to transport precious fuel. Suddenly, Furiosa veers off her intended course, instead driving her heavily armored war rig into enemy territory. Immortan Joe soon realizes that Furiosa has taken his five prized breeding wives. She is taking them in search for her childhood homeland known as “the green place.” Immortan Joe quickly assembles his large gang of soldiers, called war boys, to return his stolen treasures. In hot pursuit of Furiosa is a war boy named Nux (Nicholas Hoult), who has strapped Max to the front of his speeding vehicle as a crude blood bag. Nux is a brainwashed war boy who is desperate to be noticed by Immortan Joe or to die for his cause so that he can be reborn again in “Valhalla.” The remainder of the film is a dramatic high-speed chase across the unforgiving desert. The movie unfolds with this electrifying group banding together to confront their enslavement to Immortan