Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Mad Max: Fury Road: Directed by George Miller. With Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne. In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland with the aid of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper, and a drifter named Max.

“Cold-blooded, botanically medieval, crusades-like, and horrifically thrilling—thatu0026#39;s Fury Road. As for Max, it looks like heu0026#39;s the same archetypal Bane, only this time, heu0026#39;s more immune to u0026quot;Iu0026#39;m not afraid, Iu0026#39;m angry.u0026quot; Heu0026#39;s silent, and angry, and frustrated. Heu0026#39;s Rango-like, reflective of the quest to solve the water-mystery. With everything red, orange, and yellow, it seems like youu0026#39;re viewing 300 blended in Saw, and over-the-top Fu0026amp;F.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eGeorge Miller revises his ideological construct in the most exhilarating, dreadful, and striking manner this time. For all I know, the audiences spoil themselves with u0026quot;cinematic orgasms,u0026quot; if thatu0026#39;s a thing, throughout the movie. Theyu0026#39;re not afraid of the porcupine-trucks, maybe a little on the edge of madness, but that goes without saying. Hereu0026#39;s a hint as to what it was like: Bane and Miranda beating the beep out of war-painted, anti-Christian, Hulu tribe—only this time, itu0026#39;s some dark, full-raged action with mountain bikes, and trucks, and springy tentacles moving idiotic half-Willy, half-Wonka The Da Vinci Code Bettanyu0026#39;s horrendous versions. Miller puts his tribal culture in the crux of action, which reveals an unorthodox, authoritarian, and devout portrayal of enmity. The sport-arena action is complemented by prayers in Citadel, banging of drums, skeleton-wheels, and skeleton-feels. It has a bizarre feeling—youu0026#39;re dredged into the modernity of Prometheus and antediluvian era of the Exodus.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMore than anything—Maxu0026#39;s deafening seriousness, Furiosau0026#39;s bald-grace, armless-attraction, sense of responsibility, and and absolute congeniality to the role (always imposingly remarkable,) religious affirmation, banging, puffing, booming, clatter, splash, tick-tick, boom—the u0026quot;fantasized-realismu0026quot; behind all the get-off-my-property-you-crazy-lunatic is what gives you the honesty-chills. The stunts, the effort, the donu0026#39;t-care-about-ourselves-just-love-the-movie-please pledge, and the extraordinarily enormous—480 hours of footage into 120 minutes of freaking-awesome warfare—blows me off of my seat in the cinema to the pale, scorching blaze of the sun, amidst the crazy-eyes of this action-genre Orange is the New Black. Even the over-editing has that medieval, darkly comical feel to it, just like 300 for example (canu0026#39;t think of another movie with such aberrant effects, but such positive response.) u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBut like any other movie, there are points where you start questioning yourself. Nothing seems to justify Max u0026amp; Furiosau0026#39;s relationship, mutual combats, strategies, certainty of plans, and stuff like that. But by then, the movieu0026#39;s not about logic or sense anymore; itu0026#39;s more about seeing what you wouldnu0026#39;t in ages. With such a brilliant ensemble—I mean it was pretty good for a solely madness-based movie—you couldnu0026#39;t care less about the abacus-loving dumb-toads sitting in exactly the middle seats of the theater to get the most balanced view of the screen, and judge the minus-plus of the 120 minute long clip. I feel like reporting their stupidity to the CIA—enough with the pen and paper!u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMad Max comes equitably with the characters, their roles, and the titular projections. Each name is qualified by its corresponding characteristic with the character in the movie—Spikers, Rictus Erectus et cetera. This complements the heartfelt glow to the movie itself—everythingu0026#39;s done for the movie. They didnu0026#39;t feel any need to impose worldly sense into it, which is the best part, because that miniature world seemed pretty damn believable to me—but why? Maybe it were those religious beats, maybe the dragon-roars of engines, maybe it was just the psychological effect. Whatever it was, it did what it planned to.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMad Max: Fury Road puts forth the idea that thereu0026#39;s so much more to combats than mere combats—MMFR incorporates belligerent, spoiling-for-a-fight attitude, oppressed landscape, estranged and barbaric drug-lords, heavy-weight weaponry and wheelers, and poster-paint bombings. The intensified red-blaze of fire, the sandstorm-effect, the preposterous turn of events, the nonsensical touch of things, and the wacky script—everything wrong with the movie is everything good about the movie. Mad Max: Fury Road revises the post-apocalyptic scene—utter dryness of region and minds—and uses the irritating sense of that dryness into a rigorous will to get past it with victory—Fury Roadu0026#39;s victory. Itu0026#39;s not about the comparative analysis of protagonists and the white-witty-wackos, itu0026#39;s about whatu0026#39;s happening throughout. And when it happens, youu0026#39;re only remark is: u0026quot;What a lovely day.u0026quot;”