{"id":756,"date":"2015-05-26T22:32:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T22:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgc.co\/?p=756"},"modified":"2015-05-26T22:32:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T22:32:04","slug":"review-mad-max-fury-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singlespeedgoldcoast.com\/2015\/05\/26\/review-mad-max-fury-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: Mad Max Fury Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

Any movie maker who has ever put a car chase in a movie will hail the brilliance of George Miller’s Mad Max Fury Road<\/a>. What he’s got here, it’s not so much a car chase in a movie, it’s a movie in a car chase. Apart from a few pauses\u00a0Fury Road<\/em> is one long car chase.<\/p>\n

Some are calling it a reboot of Mad Max 2\u00a0The Road Warrior<\/em><\/a>, which in many ways it is. Fury Road\u00a0<\/em>looks like the movie George Miller wanted for number 2, if he’d had the budget and the boldness. Fury Road<\/em>, to its credit, dispenses with dialogue and exposition almost entirely (except for a few clunky aphorisms). The narrative is driven by the drama of people driving cars, trucks and motorbikes. It’s Max 2 with less of the bits you don’t want and more of the bits you do.<\/p>\n

You might think a car movie is a strange creature for a bicycle blog to review. I grew up with the Mad Max series (well…I abandoned them when they went to Hollywood for Beyond Thunderdome<\/a><\/em>) and clearly remember\u00a0pretending to know what a V8 Interceptor was. More to the point though, this is a future dystopia movie<\/a>. That’s the\u00a0best type of movie. \u00a0And there is no dystopian future more unpalatable than a world dominated by cars and pushed by the pursuit of dwindling resources.<\/p>\n

As a warning for our\u00a0future, the Max Max<\/em> series doesn’t resonate in the way that a more serious or analogous look at our possible future outcomes would. (I’m clearly thinking of Idiocracy<\/a><\/em> here.) But if you’re like me and like to take any argument to the\u00a0furthest extreme of its logic, to prove its idiocy by hanging\u00a0it out too far, then Mad Max<\/em> is what you get when our world scrambles and fights over diminishing resources, too stupid to envision\u00a0a world\u00a0without their cars. In other words, Mad Max<\/em> is exactly the world we’re looking to inherit. Just the most absurd\u00a0version of that outcome.<\/p>\n

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