FURIOSA
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Gareth Higgins on FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is, like its post-apocalyptic predecessors, a film of enormous ambition, not only in the way it looks and feels, but what it’s about: survival against unimaginable odds at the risk of becoming the very thing that oppresses you.
George Miller has been making Mad Max films since 1979 (I can’t think of another director building the same world for as long), and he’s clearly an empathetic person who recognizes that sometimes we need to face horror to be able to transcend it. We may also need to see what has been lost in order to appropriately grieve it, and to motivate ourselves to retrieve what we can.
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