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Mad Max: Fury Road

The future belongs to the mad.

An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.

Wokeness: 60%

Overall Score: 80%

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Danny

Wokeness: 5/5 Overall Score: 1/5

Crap

Mad Max is a bumbling fool that has to be saved by a woke woman. CRAP

Created: 11-07-2022

RiseUpNowOrPerishLater

Wokeness: 1/5 Overall Score: 5/5

Enjoyable with faults

The movie has great world building, effects, music, directing, and action scenes so what is wrong you are probably thinking.

The ending shows women rising up and the man goes away. The way this scene is directed is very wokelike. He knew exactly what he was showing. Check out the scene and you will see what I am talking about.

Furiosa not being in the group of Joe's wives is weird considering she is a woman. Possibly if they had shown her pretending to be a man would solve that. Women rise up while man disappears lol.

The all female clan is slightly woke.

Furiosa herself has slight woke elements. They have the man give her blood which at least makes Furiosa not a mary sue since she actually got hurt and needed help.

Overall I still enjoy this movie and would recommend. Some people might not even see the slight woke elements. I might be a bit bias toward post apocalypse movies though.

Created: 11-17-2022

AJM

Wokeness: 3/5 Overall Score: 0/5

Created: 11-20-2022

COWBOY

Wokeness: 5/5 Overall Score: 0/5

Created: 12-23-2022

Johnny

Wokeness: 5/5 Overall Score: 1/5

I Loved the Real Mad Max Movies

I don't see the point of this movie. Yeah, a lot of action. A feminist Mad Max. Maybe Mad Maxine? Maybe try to sell a new idea, instead of forcing an existing action movie franchise into Feminism. A common refrain today.

Created: 03-02-2023

NoWo

Wokeness: 1/5 Overall Score: 4/5

Stealthily balanced gender representation.

As a movie, Fury Road was enjoyable, mostly thanks to a competent cinematography, and hard-working leads.

As for the feminist label slapped on it, mostly by feminists, I would tend to disagree. Just a pretty good movie, with two strong leads and two very different ways to redemption.
I would wonder though as to what extent Miller has been influenced by Asian philosophy, namely taijitu / yin-yang.

The mystical, female-led hidden society is described all along the movie as great warriors. And yet in the end scene, they die 1 to 1 in fighting the males.

The male-led, patriarchal society is quite literally based on stone (cave-dwellers) and fire (the two attributes of yang). It is violent, patriarchal and oppressive. But thriving, given the circumstances.

The female-led society is based on water (supposedly they live in marshes if memory serves) and air (open spaces), thus the two attributes of yin. It is also sterile and dying. As expressed in the movie: "nobody came".

Women conserved the seeds. Men extract the water.

I'm more on the fence regarding the ending.
On the one end, liberating the means of production makes for great shots of waterfalls in the desert, but one has to wonder how many weeks the settlement will survive its Socialist utopia.

On the other end, Max refusing to be part of this revolution can be construed as a condemnation, which also leaves the strong and independent female lead, well, strong, independent and single by choice, albeit not of her own. Max literally offers that he makes his own way.

A sign of things to come, one might think.