Mad Max is as the name suggests, a mad adventure in a post-apocalyptic world where the Earth is a vast desert, water is gold and the basic capability of human procreation a rarity due to drastic changes in an environment due to radiation and post-war destruction.
It is a movie that depicts a world where law and order are a thing of the golden past, where cars are worshipped and where tyranny reigns sovereign.
Mad Max is not about gasoline/Guzzoline, not about monster trucks and heavily modified vehicles and awesome looking heavily modified two wheelers but about the adrenaline-fueled action-packed scenes with Imperator Furiosa, a woman, as the main driving force of the movie- Max follows her orders.
This is actually why I watched the movie-’Trojan Horse Feminism’ is what the critics called it in their reviews. I was surprised at how well the plot worked out despite how boring it sounded when summarised as - A car chase in a desert involving a whole clan of gangsters and a group of seemingly beautiful mostly fragile women(except for the Imperator) with Max(Who at first I thought was the lead role as the title of the movie suggested). Obviously, this wasn’t the case.
There are a lot of exciting shots in the movie that you must surely find out about yourself. Fun Fact: George Miller originally wanted to release a black and white version of the film but changed his mind as black and white movies are reserved for the category of’art films’. Why he wanted to release this movie as a black and white is because he thought the colours distract the audience from the main content of the movie- the post-apocalyptic lawless mad world devoid of structure and meaning. Instead he made sure he saturated the movie colouration to the maximum to depict an environment dominated by teal and orange. In addition the elaborate painstakingly shot stunts, the monster mutated looking cars and the elaborate make-up and costuming of the characters also add to the visual aspect of the movie. This opposite to the black and white in my opinion works equally well to represent the artistic aim of what Miller originally had in mind. The movie is an absolute must watch if you want to treat your eyes to beautifully shot scenes that are a language on their own.