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Furiosa Mad Max Review: Anya Taylor-Joy’s Stunning Performance

Although ‘Furiosa: From the Mad Max Saga’ borrows from its predecessor, ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’, the idea of the desert road movie, already completely emptied of asphalt, we are faced with two works that are almost antagonistic in their approach. conceptual. On the one hand, ‘Fury Road’ clung to an idea of essential cinema” that put the purity of physical movement before any type of narrative sophistication (in its own way, the film proposed a return to the circus spectacle of primitive cinema, the one that the theorist Tom Gunning baptized as the “cinema of attractions”). For its part, ‘Furiosa’, with its elliptical structure in five episodes and its perfect balance between great action scenes and resounding dialogue duels, refers to another “origin”: that monumental cinema with which David W. Griffith, determined to convert American history into legend, laid the foundations of film narrative at the beginning of the 20th century. In fact, ‘Furiosa’, with its exuberant plasticity—halfway between pictorial preciousness and the kinetic energy of the comic—and with its powerful dramaturgy, which combines elements of Shakespeare’s comedies and tragedies, could be imagined as the futuristic chapter that Griffith would have dreamed of for ‘Intolerance’ (1916), his historical epic about the self-destructive force of human beings.

Regarding the chronology of the story, ‘Furiosa’ is presented as a faithful prequel to ‘Fury Road’, revealing the origin of the fascinating character of Imperator Furiosa, to whom Anya Taylor-Joy, with her gigantic eyes, gives a dramatic pose that Charlize Theron outlined in a more superficial way. In fact, in his efforts to construct a film with a broad dramatic arc involving the fall from grace of Furiosa’s character and her quest for revenge, George Miller takes the time to delve into the motivations of each character, carefully outlining clairvoyance at every turn of the plot and giving meaning to each of the set pieces that adorn the footage, as extensive as it is excellent.

However, just as relevant as the internal logic of the story is the nine-year period that elapsed between the release of the last two installments of Miller’s post-apocalyptic saga. Thus, while ‘Furious Road’ still harbored hope in the emancipation of peoples at the hands of a feminist revolution—that is what many of us thought a decade ago—’Furiosa” crudely portrays a world threatened by populist leaders and beaten by wars motivated by economic and political interests.

Displaying an enviable lucidity, Miller, at 79 years old, builds a concrete and at the same time allegorical universe in which the discouragement that spreads through current reality resonates intensely, achieving what Denis Villeneuve attempted with little success in his version. of ‘Dune’, whose transcendentalist messianism was light years away from our contemporary malaise. Furthermore, it should be noted that Miller achieves his task by combining due gravity with a stimulating humorous irreverence: one of the warriors in the film responds to the name “Scrotus” and eats “dog kebab” (one would say that ‘Furiosa’ It is situated at the impossible confluence between ‘Lawrence of Arabia’, the spaghetti western, and ‘The Life of Brian’. In fact, to raise his denunciation against war-mongering megalomania, Miller gives us one of his most memorable creations: a gladiator named Dr. Dementus (Chris Hemsworth) who, under his prophetic airs, hides a vigorous Mexican fool who drives a Roman chariot. pulled by motorcycles, and that boasts of its stupidity in the manner of Donald Trump. This is the fury of Miller, who is not afraid of ridicule on his path to artistic greatness.

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Director

Director: George Miller Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke, Angus Sampson, and Daniel Webber Country: Australia Year: 2024 Release date: 5-24-2024 Genre: science fiction, action Screenplay: Nick Lathouris, George Miller Duration: 148 min.

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Synopsis

As the world falls, young Furiosa (Anya Taylor-Joy) is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by Warlord Dementus. Devastating the Páramo, they come across the citadel presided over by the immortal Joe. As the two Tyrants fight for dominance, Furiosa must survive many trials as she gathers the means to find her way back home.

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