• echo
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    1 year ago

    has no pro car message

    “violent car chases look fucking sick” is a pretty core part of mad max so it at least has a cars-are-cool message

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      1 year ago

      Fury Road has a very strong theme of extractive/capitalist survival (represented by cars, gas, control of water etc) = bad, regenerative/communalist survival (represented by the mothers and plant life) = good. The action scenes are ofc designed to be cool but I think the broader environmental/social message is strong enough that the flame guitar doesn’t drown it out.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Yet there were further signs of the desperate measures individuals would take to ensure mobility. A couple of oil strikes that hit many pumps revealed the ferocity with which Australians would defend their right to fill a tank. Long queues formed at the stations with petrol—and anyone who tried to sneak ahead in the queue met raw violence. —McCausland on the 1973 Oil Crisis, defining the theme of Mad Max