Furiosa

Furiouser and Furiosa
dir: Dr George Miller
2024
You’ve got to admit, this is a fine looking movie. Like, I’m not a car guy, in that I don’t salivate over cars or read car magazines or care about them at all, but if I see a fine looking vehicle, it stands out, even to me.
This film just looks amazing. For a representation of an ecologically doomed Australia in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, there sure are a lot of bright blues, yellows and deep reds.
And some shiny, shiny rigs.
The people look pretty shiny and weird too. I don’t think any part of this is trying to look realistic. It’s trying to look mythic, and it quite often succeeds.
Since this director has been making Mad Max films since the 1970s, I can’t really fault him for making the same kind of flick again and again, and also, I can’t really imagine anything more pointless than an origin story for the Furiosa character. Her origin story, for all that we needed to know, occurred in Fury Road. She drives cars and trucks real good, she’s missing an arm, she’s mean as fuck and she hates the jerks who rule the wasteland.
That’s all we needed to know. The look of absolute contempt Charlize Theron aimed at most people, but especially at Tom Hardy as some kind of rejiggered Max was more than enough to know everything we needed to know about Furiosa.
But Dr Miller figured there was essential stuff we absolutely needed to know about the past. Backstory to be filled out. Details to unpack. References to reference.
It’s his call, and he is absolutely meticulous about it.
The wasteland is a terrible and unforgiving place, still. But there was one enclave, one green place left, and little Furiosa was from there. A place of abundance. With trees, and peaches, even.
And then some jerk bastards on bikes came along and kidnapped her, prompting her mother to grab her sniper rifle and go off in pursuit.
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