1 00:00:01,199 --> 00:00:15,640 Furiosa. Worslad meet Freed. Today we're going to talk about both Fury Road 2 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:23,120 and Furiosa. We've done many analysis of dystopian films. In fact, I 3 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:29,800 think we've covered all of the dystopian films and in times technocratic whatever you want 4 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:34,200 to call them, apocalypse films. We've done the entire genre, Jamie and 5 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:40,079 I from beginning to end, and we found those to be very insightful, 6 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:44,000 a lot of revelation, the method, a lot of predictive programming, and 7 00:00:44,039 --> 00:00:51,679 I wasn't surprised to find that the new installment of Furiosa to the Mad Max 8 00:00:51,799 --> 00:01:00,079 world was once again the dark goddess gnostic savior archetype. Now the film was 9 00:01:00,359 --> 00:01:06,200 terrible, it was enjoyable on many levels. I like both Fury Road and 10 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:12,959 Furiosa. Furiosa was, aside from a couple legitimate criticisms, almost really good. 11 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:19,239 It was good, almost really good. I think maybe the director's cut 12 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:26,000 we'll have some of the missing scenes that made the story narrative kind of confusing. 13 00:01:26,719 --> 00:01:34,040 For example, we suddenly see Liam Hemsworth's character dementous at Bullet Farm. 14 00:01:34,799 --> 00:01:38,079 We never saw him take a bullet Farm. Apparently he took it but I 15 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:41,280 think they had to cut it down. It was probably a long film, 16 00:01:41,719 --> 00:01:49,439 but overall very entertaining, but some bizarre esoteric gnostic symbolism that we have to 17 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:55,400 cover, and it fits into the themes of previous installments. Of course, 18 00:01:55,599 --> 00:02:00,680 Beyond Thunderdome is one of my favorite of all time movies. So no Mad 19 00:02:00,719 --> 00:02:08,520 Max or no mel Gibson's anymore. Wonder why Wonder why Mel Gibson is in 20 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:15,840 movies like Mad Max? Well, one reason why is that now we have 21 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:23,879 to have the female savior archetype replacing the classic action hero archetype. In fact, 22 00:02:23,879 --> 00:02:28,319 in a lot of these narratives, the male hero who might appear in 23 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:32,120 the film, as in this story we have Praetorian Joe who appears. He 24 00:02:32,199 --> 00:02:38,159 of course, gives his life for furioso. Now I'm not dissing male characters 25 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:45,479 or lead characters that give their life, but it seems like nowadays this is 26 00:02:45,759 --> 00:02:50,919 present in the films when the death of the male character is really just to 27 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,439 empower the slave queen to take over. But before we get to all that, 28 00:02:54,560 --> 00:03:00,960 let's rewind and recall that we're in a post apocalypse world where nukes have 29 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:07,599 gone off. Everything is radiated presumably Australia. Everybody speaks with an honest Australian 30 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:14,000 accent. They've all been mutated, so to speak, not everybody, but 31 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:21,479 many of the characters who happen to be near whatever warfare happened, And so 32 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:24,680 presumably now we're I guess, in the center of the continent of Australia, 33 00:03:24,719 --> 00:03:31,159 which is already wasteland. Of course, I'm not going to talk about the 34 00:03:31,199 --> 00:03:36,240 first three because we've covered those mad Maxes and you can go read my essay 35 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:43,919 that I did on the first three some years back, and they chose as 36 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:51,000 the young version of Charlie's l Ron Anya Taylor Joy. That's interesting because Anya 37 00:03:51,000 --> 00:04:00,879 Taylor Joy has a history of playing the traumatized dissociation character. A breakdown with 38 00:04:00,919 --> 00:04:03,479 my buddies over at Sign of Cinema a year ago where we covered The Witch, 39 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:10,240 the Menu Morgan last Night in Soho Split, there's other movies where she 40 00:04:10,719 --> 00:04:17,120 is involved in some dissociation, multiple personality type of role, and that would 41 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:24,480 be something like Marrow Bone, right but here, without really knowing where the 42 00:04:24,519 --> 00:04:27,519 plot would go, I surmised that that would be the same thing, and 43 00:04:27,519 --> 00:04:30,319 of course that's what we got. But we have to touch on the gnostic 44 00:04:30,399 --> 00:04:34,439 themes. So first let's talk about Fury Road. Before we get to the 45 00:04:34,439 --> 00:04:40,639 analysis of Furiosa and Fury Road. We have resource wars, the control of 46 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:47,959 the resources after the nuke blast. Of course, that's even more that's even 47 00:04:47,959 --> 00:04:58,079 more important because resources are view and far between. Essentially, there's just cabbages, 48 00:04:58,399 --> 00:05:08,720 peaches, maggot and basically human human legs, human leg meat. That's 49 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:17,199 literally all there is in the wasteland. And so the civilization that develops immediately 50 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:23,759 in Fury Road is called the Citadel. This is run by this sort of 51 00:05:24,519 --> 00:05:30,920 grotesque mutated figure known as Morton Joe. And it's very clear, very evident 52 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:39,000 that he set up this patriarchal system that's capitalist, that controls and manages resources, 53 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:45,079 including his women, his concubines, his harem of supermodels. I don't 54 00:05:45,079 --> 00:05:47,879 know where in the wasteland he found a pack of supermodels, but he did. 55 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:57,399 He's also got a pack of chunks, chunk ladies who breastfeed the babies. 56 00:05:57,439 --> 00:06:00,480 He's trying to essentially create, create the human race. He wants to 57 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:06,240 have a lineage, a dynasty, but his offspring, it turns out, 58 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:13,800 are consistently constantly mutated, and so there's something deformed and off about this, 59 00:06:15,399 --> 00:06:18,759 shall we say, demi urged type of figure who is presenting himself as a 60 00:06:18,879 --> 00:06:24,319 male savior archetype. He calls himself immortal or immortal Joe, you could say, 61 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:29,319 and he is worshiped by his war boys, these pale, powdered, 62 00:06:29,319 --> 00:06:36,120 doughnut like figures, who I called it a fast and furious albino drift basically 63 00:06:36,199 --> 00:06:44,279 is what this movie is. And the radiated Messianic redeemer is able to cause 64 00:06:44,319 --> 00:06:49,480 them to even martyr themselves, and they spray themselves with chrome before they go 65 00:06:49,519 --> 00:06:57,160 to Valhalla, and he poses as their redeemer and claims that he can resurrect 66 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:00,160 them. He says something akin to I am the resid in life, something 67 00:07:00,199 --> 00:07:06,319 like that. So there's a very Christian borrowed theme here, and I think 68 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:15,439 the idea is that Christianity is right fallocentric, patriarchal religion, and where we're 69 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:23,079 going is that's going to be contrasted with the gnostic feminine archetype, where we're 70 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:27,600 no longer utilizing technology, we're in harmony with nature, we're at peace with 71 00:07:28,079 --> 00:07:30,720 mother Earth, Gaia. All those things are actually going to be very explicit 72 00:07:30,759 --> 00:07:34,959 in the narrative. So I was pretty critical of Fury Road in terms of 73 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:40,399 its symbolism, in terms of its mythology. It's ultimately kind of a nihilistic 74 00:07:40,519 --> 00:07:50,720 world where everything is essentially a kind of It still revolves around, supposedly the 75 00:07:50,759 --> 00:07:59,839 masculine idea of resource control and technology and furtherance of that through building civilization around 76 00:07:59,839 --> 00:08:03,120 in slave men. So the idea is that patriarchy does create some sort of 77 00:08:03,639 --> 00:08:07,920 model of how to live in terms of the future, but it's an enslaving 78 00:08:07,959 --> 00:08:13,319 reality based around control, and so human civilization is reverted, as we said, 79 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:18,920 to a very primal sort of warlord situation. It's almost like General Butt 80 00:08:18,959 --> 00:08:22,439 naked, right if you've read about him, same type of a situation where 81 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:30,439 there's a male female oppression going on in the narrative, and the liberator figure 82 00:08:30,519 --> 00:08:39,240 is this sort of shall we say hermaphroditic figure of Furiosa. I'm speaking of 83 00:08:39,279 --> 00:08:46,360 the mature Charlie sterironn version where she's saving the seed these women who have been 84 00:08:46,639 --> 00:08:52,519 captured by Morton Joe and they are being liberated from the religion of the worship 85 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:58,679 of logic machines. And tech because im Morton Joe, people worship the steering 86 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:03,320 wheel, which is a symbol for their their technology, which gives them the 87 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:13,440 advantage in this world. So now motorcycles and Tonka trucks right like Pastor Randy 88 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:20,039 Balls Church, these are really the chariots and the steeds of the future in 89 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:28,600 this apocalyptic wastelam. We find out that the girls who pop up have heard 90 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:33,000 of this place called the Green Place of Many Mothers, and she's going to 91 00:09:33,039 --> 00:09:37,360 be taken to this place by They're going to be taken this place by Charlie 92 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:39,960 Throne, who's going to be the sort of liberator there. This is an 93 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:46,320 exodus motif where the slaves are being freed from a kind of Egypt to return 94 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:52,200 to this Eden like state of Gaia, this Eden place known as the Green 95 00:09:52,279 --> 00:09:58,399 Place of Many Mothers. There they will plant the new seed. And we 96 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:05,879 find out that originally that Furiosa's mom who was called Mary, so mother Mary, 97 00:10:05,639 --> 00:10:09,679 we're told that she died on the third day. Now we don't know 98 00:10:09,759 --> 00:10:13,720 about her death in Fury Road. We just learned this fact in the screenplay 99 00:10:13,759 --> 00:10:20,279 in the narrative, But throughout that story, what was evident is that Furiosa 100 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:28,000 ends up having to essentially sacrifice everything because she finds out that the Green Place 101 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:33,600 no longer exists. It's just a bunch of basically wretched old hags now inhabiting 102 00:10:33,639 --> 00:10:41,799 the wasteland who've lost their Edenic paradise. And so the best bet then is 103 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:46,480 to return as a war hero to the Citadel. And now they institute the 104 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:54,360 girl Boss order, having overthrown the corrupt, patriarchal world of Morton Joe. 105 00:10:54,840 --> 00:11:01,200 This then allows the Fat Chicks to open up the floodgates of free water. 106 00:11:01,799 --> 00:11:09,080 Water was severely controlled by a Morton Joe, creating artificial scarcity. When there 107 00:11:09,159 --> 00:11:13,639 was no scarcity, it was controlled. And so again there's a quasi Marxist 108 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:18,320 oppression narrative here, where once we get the Sleigh Queens in control, we'll 109 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:20,639 have freedom, will have liberty, everything will be fair, and there will 110 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:28,039 be a distributing of the resources. In Furiosa, we rewind and we come 111 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:33,320 back to a period where the story of the charlieastern own character. She's presented 112 00:11:33,399 --> 00:11:39,440 clearly in this garden as a young girl, and it's a very dentic place. 113 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:43,480 There's the mention of al Kyrie's again her mother is called Mary, and 114 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:48,399 we're gonna learn how her mother died. But it's very important to understand that 115 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:54,360 this is some place where the greenery has been maintained. So again eden life 116 00:11:54,360 --> 00:12:01,039 and the green trees, the tree of life has been maintained here. And 117 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:05,799 here she is picking peaches and peaches. I think it's as a stand in 118 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:09,159 for the you know, gardener beating in the apple. She's picking these things, 119 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:16,639 and they're also I think symbolic for her sexuality, because as the film 120 00:12:16,679 --> 00:12:22,320 progresses, peaches keep getting stolen and transferred and eaten. Of course that's obvious 121 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:28,440 that you can figure out what that's a reference too. But she's eventually kidnapped 122 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:35,240 from her Edenic state. She's fallen. Then she's sort of like a Gnostic 123 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:41,759 Pistols Sophia who falls into materiality, into the wasteland, into the prison lands. 124 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:46,759 And as she falls into this patriarchal hellhole, she becomes the prisoner of 125 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:52,960 this very shall we say, christ like figure, and he's intentionally I think, 126 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:56,559 presented with a a christ Like imagery. I mean, to be fair, 127 00:12:56,600 --> 00:13:03,080 a lot of you know, cult leaders do take on the Jesus look, 128 00:13:03,919 --> 00:13:09,600 but Hemsworth is here playing the villain Dementus, and so Dementus is a 129 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:16,200 rising war lord who will then become a challenge to im Morton Joe as well 130 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:20,480 as some of the other war lords in this universe. But we find out 131 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:24,279 that in fact he wants to preserve her virginity, so another christ like element, 132 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:31,559 he wants to preserve the virginity of Furiosa. Furiosa has been tattooed on 133 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:37,320 her arm with what we presume might be directions to get back to Eden. 134 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:43,039 Eventually, of course, she loses that arm in battle. I notice that 135 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:46,960 again in this green land that has survived, it's all women. Only women 136 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:54,519 have survived in this green Edenic paradise. And even though she's taken from this 137 00:13:54,960 --> 00:14:01,799 state of purity and innocence, Furiosa she maintains her virginity and is going to 138 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:09,360 presumably be the bride to the dementous character in the future. So she's preserved. 139 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:18,519 But he intentionally traumatizes her by actually showing her the death of her mother, 140 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:22,879 and so the death of the mother actually occurs in a cruciform pose. 141 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:26,919 So Mother Mary becomes crucified on the third day, as we saw in the 142 00:14:26,919 --> 00:14:33,279 first one, in a cruciform way, and this intentionally traumatizes Furiosa. We 143 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:39,039 find out later that the dementous character did this on purpose. He did this 144 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:48,279 to make her into this sort of dissociative, transcending limitations of all kinds ubermensch 145 00:14:48,679 --> 00:14:52,080 or uber chick. Right, So there's the ubermens and there's the uber chick, 146 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:56,320 and he's basically saying, I needed to do this to you, so 147 00:14:56,399 --> 00:14:58,240 yeah, I traumatize you and I mistreats you. Be hey, it's for 148 00:14:58,279 --> 00:15:11,240 your own good. And after this, she then embarks on her quest with 149 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:20,279 the one positive male character in the Praetorian, who's her fellow driver. He 150 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:24,720 takes her in, trains her, helps her out, and of course he 151 00:15:24,799 --> 00:15:26,960 ends up giving his life for her, which is you know that it's all 152 00:15:28,919 --> 00:15:35,200 wholesome in itself. However, what this does is again transform her into something 153 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:39,279 new. She shaves her head off again, her hair off because she wants 154 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:45,399 to shed the feminine image that she has. She takes on more and more 155 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:50,799 to masculine appearance. And then when she loses her arms, she takes on 156 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:54,679 of course her metallic arm, right, And I think this is to signify 157 00:15:54,840 --> 00:16:00,759 that in order to fight what she supposedly is against this idea of the technological 158 00:16:00,519 --> 00:16:07,000 masculine. Order to return to her green pastures of Gaya and the Jayjays, 159 00:16:07,559 --> 00:16:10,879 she needs to become one with the thing that she hates. You see, 160 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:14,600 right, This is the classic sort of villain line. The villain's always kind 161 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:18,480 of giving this narrative that you're just like me. You know, the hero 162 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:21,919 is selling the hero You're just another version of me, right, Heath Ledger 163 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:25,799 says this to Batman. Right. And so I don't want to spoil anything, 164 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:27,399 but essentially that's the kind of dialogue we get at the close of the 165 00:16:27,399 --> 00:16:32,639 film. It's this sort of kind of corny back and forth between the villain 166 00:16:32,679 --> 00:16:37,039 and the protagonist. You're just another manifestation of me, and I'm you know, 167 00:16:37,039 --> 00:16:41,000 it's all nihilism, there's nothing. But at a deeper level, there 168 00:16:41,039 --> 00:16:44,519 is an esoteric element going on here, because, as we said, if 169 00:16:44,519 --> 00:16:51,039 you remember this gnostic descent into the patriarchal demi urge run hell world where everything 170 00:16:51,120 --> 00:17:00,080 is about warfare and resources and property, private property and gas wars. The 171 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:04,200 Furiosa character is spoken of as the fifth rider on the horse. In other 172 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:10,480 words, she's an element of the apocalypse a fifth rider in the four Horsemen 173 00:17:10,519 --> 00:17:14,680 of the Apocalypse. She's the fifth horsewoman of the Apocalypse. Thus she perhaps 174 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:18,119 is a kind of scarlet woman, as the screenplay itself says, and as 175 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:25,519 a scarlet woman she kind of becomes again transcending all the boundaries. She has 176 00:17:25,559 --> 00:17:29,799 to undergo a katabasis. They descend. Actually, when they get to Bullet 177 00:17:29,839 --> 00:17:33,640 Farm down into the layers, it looks it's very reminiscent of Dante's Inferno. 178 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:40,359 At the very bottom you have a pit of lava there where they have one 179 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:47,680 of their climactic battles. This isn't the final battle, but we find Dementus 180 00:17:47,759 --> 00:17:51,599 essentially going more and more insane. So his name itself signifies his dementia, 181 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:55,599 right, He basically literally goes insane and tells her that she will also have 182 00:17:55,680 --> 00:18:00,480 to go insane. This is also reminiscent of Max in Fury Road, sort 183 00:18:00,519 --> 00:18:04,680 of going insane and sort of you know, seeing his dead children and having 184 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:11,559 dissociative episodes. So here we have the same thing. And so her salvation 185 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:17,720 occurs when she transcends the limitations of good and evil of dark in light, 186 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:23,119 realizing that there is there's never going to be any green place, there is 187 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:29,480 no Eden. She'll have to create her own slay queen Eden. And that's 188 00:18:29,519 --> 00:18:33,640 precisely what happens when we move back into Fury Road, right, because this 189 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:37,960 is a prequel, and eventually she steps up the slag queen order. So 190 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:44,400 a lot of predictable I guess we could say predictable esoteric themes because we've covered 191 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:48,599 it so much. But ultimately this is absolutely the gnostic female dark savior archetype, 192 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:56,119 overthrowing the patriarchy and reminiscent in many ways of Barbie. However, I 193 00:18:56,160 --> 00:19:03,240 do like the Mad Max style. I've always liked George Miller's cinematography is directing, 194 00:19:04,519 --> 00:19:11,599 so aside from the feminist revenge narrative, this is a really good film 195 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:15,519 anyway. That's my breakdown. 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