Somebody in my theater clearly did not want to take the premise seriously and was laughing when Furiosa was sad in the desert and I was internally like EXCUSE ME, MA'AM.
Ohhh man. You could have heard a pin drop, except for the sobbing people. Then again we were at a daytime matinee on the Friday of a big holiday weekend, so I think the Yahoos were probably off on the freeway somewhere (appropriately!).
Somebody on Tumblr was talking about how the blood transfusion was a perfect reversal of, like, the thing that always happens in these movies where a woman has been exploited in some kind of bodily way and yet she must learn to love again. His bodily integrity was violated horrifically! And yet he also retained the ability to choose to make himself vulnerable in that way again! MAX.
YES OMG SOMEONE ELSE SAID, HE TAKES THE THING THAT WAS EXPLOITIVE AND SHITTY AND THROUGH HIS _CHOOSING_ TO HELP HER MAKES IT SOMETHING HE CAN CONTROL AND MAKE GOOD LIKE HOW NUX (OMG NUX) IS ALL BEREFT BECAUSE HE WILL NOT GO TO VALHALLA AND THEN HE WINDS UP DYING IN A FIERY WRECK ANYWAY BUT IT IS OKAY (_SORT OF_) BECAUSE IT IS HIS CHOICE AND HE IS DOING IT FOR SOMETHING REAL, THE LOVE OF A PERSON WHO CARES FOR HIM AND IT IS LIKE HIS TRIBUTE TO THE FUTURE AND HE GIVES IT UP SO THAT SHE CAN LIVE
AND IN ANY OTHER FUCKING MOVIE THE WOMEN WOULD HAVE BEEN DOING THIS WORK, IN THIS FLICK IT WAS THE _DUDES_
ALSO CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW _CHOICE_ WAS EMPHASIZED IN THIS MOVIE? INDIVIDUAL CHOICE? BECAUSE OH MY GOD. IT IS ALL ABOUT INDIVIDUAL AGENCY AND HOW EVERYONE DESERVES THAT AND HOW IT IS A FUCKING CRIME TO TAKE THAT AWAY.
The things he said while he was trying to save Furiosa were so, just. Leave me here clutching my face and rolling around.
Doesn't he say "There you are"? I was SOBBING too hard to make it out, I think. I was also fully expecting her to die because I did not think the movie could be THAT awesome.
(I also saw someone bitching that Max is the one to reveal the dead warlord's body and I was like EXCUSE YOU TWICE, she is WEAK and this is the MALE SHITTY PATRIARCHAL CULTURE, so yeah Max is going to go out there first and take the heat! and then be all, OH HEY CHECK THIS OUT and give the warlord to the people! IT IS LIKE THE LAST BIT OF PATRIARCHY BURNING ITSELF OUT THERE. AND THEN HE PASSES THE TRIUMPH ON TO HER AND SLIPS AWAY. WTF. HOW CAN PEOPLE NOT SEE IT)
Splendid. The quartet of gentlemen behind me were all, like, ready for Splendid to give birth in the truck and one of them was like PFFT, OF COURSE when she clutched her stomach and made a noise, and then the REST OF THE MOVIE HAPPENED and there was a silent sound of chagrin.
I LOVED the way the movie kept fucking with our expectations. LOVED. Someone else said this too, but I thought Nux was gonna be cannon fodder, and then I thought he would fuck with Furiosa et al while they were trying to escape, BUT NO! He becomes a PERSON. And then you cry when he fucking dies. Man.
Also, can we talk about the warboy's culture? It made sense. They did such a good job through Nux of illustrating why - given their material situation - this was both a reasonable worldview for the warboys to be involved in and an exploitation of the vulnerable by the powerful. Nux just wanted to drive one of the trucks, man. He was a teenager and his adolescence sucked and he wanted to feel meaningful in his endeavors.
Yeah, and they all are apparently sick and they KNOW they're going to die, so why not die in a way that makes your life meaningful? If your life sucks, why not go out in a blaze of glory? If there's nothing else. It makes perfect sense.
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Ohhh man. You could have heard a pin drop, except for the sobbing people. Then again we were at a daytime matinee on the Friday of a big holiday weekend, so I think the Yahoos were probably off on the freeway somewhere (appropriately!).
Somebody on Tumblr was talking about how the blood transfusion was a perfect reversal of, like, the thing that always happens in these movies where a woman has been exploited in some kind of bodily way and yet she must learn to love again. His bodily integrity was violated horrifically! And yet he also retained the ability to choose to make himself vulnerable in that way again! MAX.
YES
OMG SOMEONE ELSE SAID, HE TAKES THE THING THAT WAS EXPLOITIVE AND SHITTY AND THROUGH HIS _CHOOSING_ TO HELP HER MAKES IT SOMETHING HE CAN CONTROL AND MAKE GOOD
LIKE HOW NUX (OMG NUX) IS ALL BEREFT BECAUSE HE WILL NOT GO TO VALHALLA AND THEN HE WINDS UP DYING IN A FIERY WRECK ANYWAY BUT IT IS OKAY (_SORT OF_) BECAUSE IT IS HIS CHOICE AND HE IS DOING IT FOR SOMETHING REAL, THE LOVE OF A PERSON WHO CARES FOR HIM AND IT IS LIKE HIS TRIBUTE TO THE FUTURE AND HE GIVES IT UP SO THAT SHE CAN LIVE
AND IN ANY OTHER FUCKING MOVIE THE WOMEN WOULD HAVE BEEN DOING THIS WORK, IN THIS FLICK IT WAS THE _DUDES_
ALSO CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW _CHOICE_ WAS EMPHASIZED IN THIS MOVIE? INDIVIDUAL CHOICE? BECAUSE OH MY GOD. IT IS ALL ABOUT INDIVIDUAL AGENCY AND HOW EVERYONE DESERVES THAT AND HOW IT IS A FUCKING CRIME TO TAKE THAT AWAY.
The things he said while he was trying to save Furiosa were so, just. Leave me here clutching my face and rolling around.
Doesn't he say "There you are"? I was SOBBING too hard to make it out, I think. I was also fully expecting her to die because I did not think the movie could be THAT awesome.
(I also saw someone bitching that Max is the one to reveal the dead warlord's body and I was like EXCUSE YOU TWICE, she is WEAK and this is the MALE SHITTY PATRIARCHAL CULTURE, so yeah Max is going to go out there first and take the heat! and then be all, OH HEY CHECK THIS OUT and give the warlord to the people! IT IS LIKE THE LAST BIT OF PATRIARCHY BURNING ITSELF OUT THERE. AND THEN HE PASSES THE TRIUMPH ON TO HER AND SLIPS AWAY. WTF. HOW CAN PEOPLE NOT SEE IT)
Splendid. The quartet of gentlemen behind me were all, like, ready for Splendid to give birth in the truck and one of them was like PFFT, OF COURSE when she clutched her stomach and made a noise, and then the REST OF THE MOVIE HAPPENED and there was a silent sound of chagrin.
I LOVED the way the movie kept fucking with our expectations. LOVED. Someone else said this too, but I thought Nux was gonna be cannon fodder, and then I thought he would fuck with Furiosa et al while they were trying to escape, BUT NO! He becomes a PERSON. And then you cry when he fucking dies. Man.
Also, can we talk about the warboy's culture? It made sense. They did such a good job through Nux of illustrating why - given their material situation - this was both a reasonable worldview for the warboys to be involved in and an exploitation of the vulnerable by the powerful. Nux just wanted to drive one of the trucks, man. He was a teenager and his adolescence sucked and he wanted to feel meaningful in his endeavors.
Yeah, and they all are apparently sick and they KNOW they're going to die, so why not die in a way that makes your life meaningful? If your life sucks, why not go out in a blaze of glory? If there's nothing else. It makes perfect sense.