This week I will expose about , the ten nominations and six won academy awards of 2016, Mad Max: Fury Road.
Well, this movie is a kind of a blurry boundary between the typical action movie, and that kind of movie with meaning and some artistic purpose, i don't want to say art cinema, because that category tends to be too bombastic, or at least too bombastic to Mad Max. Anyway, let's go with a possible analysis.
In the internet, one can find different analysis on the meaning of the characters that compose the drama. Let's examine some of them: (SPOILERS)
It could be a critical commentary on today's society, were Inmortan Joe represents the patriarchy, the bullet farmer is a representation of war, an anti-life entity, in the movie, they refer to the bullets as an anti-seed <<seed one, and watch something die>>, and the banker, the capitalist, as a man-eater (pretty marxist connotation). Also, this kind of hierarchy must be defeated by opressed and objectify people: Max is seen as a "blood bag" by warboys; Nux, whom is a warboy, is a dispensable infantryman, an object that could be sacrified in the name of Inmortan Joe, like in a fundamentalism. Women are a mere object of breeding and nursing warboys, and Inmortan Joe's offspring.Also it could be a commentary on how authoritarian regimes, raised on times of crisis (even for neccesity), go really really bad.
I mean, sure, this looks kind of I'm really hard trying to make the movie plot some sense but there something more important on Mad Max, and it is the reason why it got so many academy awards:
George Miller's and his crew got an awesome imagination, they create this world, detail by detail, the desert, the places, characters, costumes, vehicles. Everything in the world of Mad Max: Fury Road has an exquisite 21th century post-apocalyptic diesel punk. The music is really exciting and captivating, defintely, if the plot doesn't want to blow your mind, the environment that the movie introduces you, will do.
But, you could question, why this is art and not fast and furious, in fact,
Why "Fast and Furious" isn't art? to try to solve this question, i need to give a definition of art, so I will leave this question for another free topic if is there one in the future. So, the next time I will talk about what I understand on "Art", in order to answer why Mad Max is art, and why Fast and Furious is not.
Mad Max is a very good movie
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