The Mad Max: Fury Road 1080p
Mina Delahoussaye
obviously everyone knows this movie is really hard for me to watch, as in 2009 I lost my virginity to the doof warrior who plays the flaming electric guitar. I don't like to talk about it publicly, because it was one of the worst breakups of my life...it's just hard and strange. they say you don't really live in LA until you see someone you slept with on a billboard -- but what about when the doof warrior who you lost your virginity to absolutely slays in mad max: fury road? what then? where do I live then?
realize I might be getting off topic, but I think this is actually just a testament to how good the film is, that I can still watch it even though, someone who I truly cherished (and who I thought cherished me back, but ultimately only wanted me for my body...) is in it.
everyone else is good too I guess
Have you seen the way she looks at him? In the context of the dystopian joyride known as Mad Max: Fury Road one might find that question silly or inane. Love seems far and away in that world. Max and Furiosa? No. Nux and Capable. I asked that question to my friends because I thought it was an often forgotten tangential plotline. It added an extra layer of tragedy to the already dour film and I always looked for it. But no one else seemed to see the trajectory of this seemingly one-sided romance. Naturally, we decided to rewatch the film. We saw as the sands take up heaps of metal and men, war machines spit fire while men spit oil, and the sense of hope fall ever lower. We saw the grizzly deaths of men on an insatiable quest for the splendors of Valhalla. We witnessed them. And among all this there was a girl, looking fondly at a boy tragically unawares of her rays of affection. There is love to find on the fury road.
But more interestingly is what we choose to watch when see a film. Miller is a master at ensuring the audience sees what he wants them to see, but as free persons we can look wherever we please. Without getting into psychoanalysis, there was some reason that I saw this accessory plot movement while my friends did not. Maybe I just was looking in the right place at the right time, but maybe I was mentally positioned to see it. Which leads to me to question, what am I missing when I watch films?
I never was a fan of rewatching a film, because I thought of those ventures as quote mining opportunities for the few films that deserve it. Rewatching films may seem like a time suck, but for those films that offer up a world in which to truly get lost, there are likely many more small moments to find and love.