Mad Max: Fury Road Themes
Visions of the Apocalypse
The Wasteland is what happens when a civilization squanders all its resources, fights for scraps, and reverts to their most savage and deplorable instincts. Yay? Mad Max: Fury Road asks us to imagi...
Women and Femininity
Who run the world? In the case of Mad Max: Fury Road, the answer is decidedly not "Girls!". Immortan Joe runs the world, and if you ask the ladies in his life, he killed it, too. His violent patria...
Violence
In Mad Max: Fury Road, violence is all about power. As George Miller puts it, "This story is one that has been fairly constant throughout history, meaning that women and indeed other human beings h...
Man and the Natural World
Or maybe we should say "Women and the Natural World"? In Mad Max: Fury Road, the natural world seems, well, like a shell of what it used to be. Nux can't even remember the word for tree at first, a...