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“This is the new age, we live in a gender less society” 

 Mad Max : Max Fury is great on so many levels, one of them is because it’s all about female power without male bashing. Another reason is that it’s set in a dystopia, so naturally it employs an amazing narrative. The narrative never gets boring, even though it makes you feel thirsty for water (not the thirst for sex) because everything that happens in the movie is in a desert because the "world is already dead" and there’s this villain called Immortan Joe, I call him a villain because from the moment you see him, you know that he’s the bad guy. So, Immortan Joe gives rations of water to his followers by a drop and then proceeds to tell them “not to get addicted to water”, the audacity reminds me of a lot of people in contemporary politics. Amongst all the dust stormed filled, diesel powered car chasing scenes, of course there wouldn’t be any Max Fury without Furiosa but Max himself turns the narrative. The thing about Furiosa is that Charlize Theoron plays her with so much conviction, she can nail this character as one of the nominees of The Best Female Hero Hall of Fame and of course Tom Hardy plays Max with enough emotions and a lick of English accented voice. 

There are lots of back stories that do not get answered like, why does Max see flashbacks? And how can Furiosa sense his “vision”, these are questions that will be answered in the next installment hopefully. One thing that really strikes out in the movie is that it’s not boring at all, that THAT’s saying a lot!!! There are plots and subplots but one thing that could not be found in the movie is a “washed down” narrative. For me, the powered chord churning dude was an eye opener, especially considering the fact that he has his own vehicle which transports him to battle zones while he turns out power chords for his fellow soldiers, there’s a place for everyone in the army and the best thing is; his guitar also serves as a flame thrower!

All George Miller movies like Happy Feet to me are always filled with a “family” sort of a feeling and Mad Max is exactly that too. When you look at it from a director’s brilliance it’s brilliant, if you look at it from a “female power” point of view, it’s super too or if you’re an action junkie, it will quench that. The movie proudly boasts $150 million budget and a lot of directors do not know what do with that much amount of money but George Miller takes his brilliance and serves a lot of tastes, like the so called “one shade suits all” miracle face powder that my mom lauds. Go see it in the theatre like it’s meant to.