There are very few movies that make you want to lose your memory completely. You can't wait to amnesia every time you read it, so that every time you see it is the mindfuck when you first meet.
MMFR is a movie that fits the description perfectly.
Four years ago, I bought a piece of ordinary theater and entered the theater with a black eye. Five minutes later, I cursed myself for being too stupid for not buying IMAX. Four years later, at the Shanghai Film Festival, I was lucky enough to grab the black and white version. For the fifth time, I watched the dusty sky on the big screen. I witnessed Max and Furiosa flying all the way to find salvation, and witnessed the downfall of Citadel's totalitarian power. The victory of the daughters.
The high-saturation colors are gone. In fact, George Miller chose the boldest use of color ( "go all-out on the colour" ) to distinguish it from other movies because it was impossible to make a black and white version in theaters . Black and white is his original idea. He thinks it is more "real and original", and I guess it is more in line with the minimalism of the film, which is the purity of stripping away all interference factors. I personally prefer the colored version, it makes the end times show extremely beautiful, but also full of dangerous condiments, so that Fury Road carries a touch of romance.
Looking back in 2019, what Miller did four years ago is still great and there is no one to follow. Hollywood and its audience are immersed in their own more diverse, inclusive, feminist illusion, producing more and more homogenized heroine films and films that emphasize the power of girls. Everything with a female role emphasizes "she is an independent and powerful woman"-Master Tai Wen said that no king will emphasize that he is a king every day; for the same reason, film critics are required to promote their pro-feminist commercial films on the entire network. , It’s often just that you know what I know and make a big show, showing the appearance of "we have worked hard" and making the audience feel good about themselves.
MMFR throws everyone out of this box. It expands people’s mediocre imaginations and tells them how female power can rule a male protagonist action film that is supposed to be masculine and filled with bullet gasoline-modified cars. At the same time Cool enough to eclipse all other action movies.
Miller has thousands of ways to make a movie flatteringly, which not only allows "moderate feminism" to obtain a certain degree of satisfaction, but also does not offend patriarchs. It is quite simple to portray Max as a hero. Just let him save his wives or defected Furiosa alone. It is not impossible to let him fight against the Undead Joe regime alone. The lone hero is the most common setting; if you want to make your mind like A teaspoon-sized film critic said that the heroine is "independent and powerful", so Furiosa does not need to act as a savior. Her defect itself is already "independent and powerful", and she can completely assist in subsequent battles. After all, the title is " "Crazy Max", after all, in a fixed action movie script, Furiosa alone can take on the responsibilities of "wife", "pregnant woman", "women ambiguous with the protagonist" and so on. If the action scenes remain unchanged, the visual effects remain the same, and all cult settings remain, this is a daily practice that no one protests.
Miller chose the most difficult and most complex way of character creation, and he didn't have to do that.
In this simple story, the protagonist is not simple at all. Both Max and Furiosa initially appeared as "objects". Max failed to save his daughter and other souls from the past. As a result, he lost the desire to repair broken things. He had only survival instinct. He didn't want to be a chivalrous man. Furiosa, who was taken away from childhood, worked for Undead Joe for 20 years. The longing for home in my heart has never been extinguished. It was her who took the lead in the rescue. She was also the one who was chased by the three war parties but carried it to the end. When the fate of the two intersect, the crazy Max finds his reason and self a little bit; in this almost speechless journey, action speaks for everything. For the first time, Furiosa gave a man accumulated trust-she only knew predators, Dictators, war criminals and brainwashed boys.
Since when did Max start thinking about Furiosa's future? Since when did the lone wolf Max decide to help a group of fugitives take home the park? In the first scene of the movie, he looked down at the wasteland and gnawed off a two-headed lizard. The second time, with the same back scene, Furiosa was in his sight, and he began to make a prudent decision. The two supported each other in the crisis, and inadvertently gave each other the most extravagant thing in the wasteland-hope. In the last fight, Furiosa killed Undead Joe, which is the first time in a male lead action movie, and Max overturned the entire team in order to catch her in time. This is not a romance movie, but it is more moving than any love scene. This temporary alliance was eventually upgraded to a close friend sharing blood, which was the most natural development. He saved her life, she saved his personality.
Miller’s way of portraying heroes is to make him respect women’s choices, clear obstacles for them silently, accompany them to regain power, and finally return power to them, because they deserve it; Miller The way of shaping the heroine is the same as that of the heroes in the past, but you know, she is not a condescending savior wearing a halo, she is also a member of suffering, and she will never become the undead Joe.
This is something that Hollywood has not been able to do so far. They cannot make the male protagonist truly respect women and gain the respect of women (and at the same time disdain to show this aspect), nor can they make the heroine who is carefully prepared to fill the "girl power" must be praised by mediocrity as "independent and powerful." Something other than.
Max and Furiosa are therefore extremely precious. This world is misogynistic. You can’t imagine a world where misogyny does not exist. Miller’s perspective is just such a perspective that is insulated from misogyny, which makes people’s eyes shine-a filmmaker who is not misogynistic. Film, it turned out to be this way.
The movie has also explained what the end of a misogynistic world completely controlled by men will end.
Who killed the world? The wives asked questions in the secret room. It is conflict, war, greed, and clinging to power. Unfortunately, in the misogynistic social structure, these are all masculine qualities, because only men can occupy a high position to make decisions that destroy the world. Even after the destruction of the world, they were able to rely on the above-mentioned masculinity and control of "resources" to dominate-the uterus is a resource, breast milk is a resource, half-life war boys, these were brainwashed since childhood and advocated gasoline, violence, war, and sacrifice. The guards are also resources. Gas Town is the same as Bullet Farm. It is a settlement ruled by men/misogynists. They have established a totalitarian system with a clear division of labor, enslaving every woman and man from top to bottom.
Once a system starts to treat women as resources, men will follow, and both men and women will be squeezed clean. Because misogyny is an aversion to life itself, and to materialize them is to strip away the value of life and the value of all human beings.
In Miller's worldview, "Many Mothers" is a variable that allows the strength of both parties to return to balance. This is also the biggest difference between it and other action movies. In the wasteland where men are in power, the vitality of mothers and daughters persists like oasis seeds. Rebellion originated from "our children will not be warlords" and "we are not objects." The battle to return home is a yearning for green and a desire for new life. Furiosa allowed Max to return to humanity. Capable softened the war boy Nux. It was women who killed the dictator. It was also women who opened the new chapter of Citadel. This is the director’s strong statement. He is on the side of life. He believes that repairing the world is indispensable. Female power. Male power is destroyed, female power is rebuilt.
This kind of statement is too "extreme" in the moderate world, so that everyone is not ready for such a movie. It also made patriarchal activists gritted their teeth because it completely broke their fantasies. They were expecting to see the dream of "a man's romantic feelings in the last days", but they did not expect to witness the collapse of the male regime under the counterattack of women. Women, should stay where they should be, why can they take over the world? But they didn't have the ability to convince mainstream audiences, because everyone had to admit that this was a movie that action film directors wanted to make but couldn't make, and the power of women did not compromise their heroic spirit and pride. A description that sounds contradictory is that this movie full of girls is not a girl at all.
Therefore, we say that MMFR conveys gender issues, breaks the shackles of gender, and truly embodies equality. This makes it seem contradictory, but in fact it is "what it should be" in all dimensions.
What I want to emphasize is that the words related to men mentioned above should not be limited to gender, but human culture is obsessed with pushing their males to extremes. How many unnecessary competitions and conflicts are all dick measuring contests in disguise? How many cultural products are there to satisfy men’s desires as one's own responsibility, and to further enhance the impression? How many totalitarian governments begin to materialize everything from acquiescence to materialize women? The misogynistic society spurs men with the temptation to occupy a high position, and uses fertility resources as bait to encourage men to squeeze women, so that those in power can secure his position. You can deceive yourself by saying that this power even pushes society forward. But who killed the world in the end?
I just want to witness them make the world better every day.
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