Mad Max spin-off about the warrior Furiosa will show the heroine growing up in a post-apocalyptic world. The main role will be played by Anya Taylor-Joy. Chris Hemsworth and Tom Burke will also play key roles.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 4K ReviewThe world we are used to was destroyed by atomic wars, most civilizations were wiped out, and mankind slipped back to a tribal way of existence. In Australia, in the middle of the continent, a settlement called "Greenlands" has miraculously survived, where people live peacefully and women are at the head of the commune: peaches and other crops are grown there among green forests. Furiosa (Alila Brown) grew up in this paradise in the middle of the deserts, but because of childish restlessness was captured by the cult leader and warlord Dementus (Chris Hemsworth), traveling on a Roman chariot of three motorcycles. The girl tried to save her mother, but ended up dying at the hands of the tyrant: before she died, the woman gave her daughter a peach pit and asked her to preserve the shelter dear to them.
Years go by, Dementus wants to expand his power, and so with his band of nomads he challenges Immortal Joe (Leitchi Halm), the same sect leader and ruler of the mountain town of Citadel, which has access to clean water. The conflict ends with Dementus seizing the fuel-producing factory-fortress Gastown and negotiating to bargain a supply of food from Joe, promising in exchange not to attack and to give him the captive Furiosa (Anya Taylor-Joy). From that point on, the girl lives in the Citadel, never forgetting her revenge on Dementus and her dream of returning home.
If you evaluate the lists of the most anticipated blockbusters of 2024, many will turn out to be sequels of already known franchises. More often than not, the desire to continue an already successful project turns into parasitization and an attempt to feed the same story to the viewer once again (Jurassic World franchise is a good example). The post-apocalyptic action movie "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" could also have fallen victim to script impotence and greed of Hollywood bosses, if not for the talent of director George Miller. If his original trilogy "Mad Max" (1979-1985) reflected people's fears of the Cold War and panic over the fuel crises of the 70s, then the quadruquel "Mad Max: Fury Road" turned the picture towards a pro-feminist optic, making the warlord Furiosa (Charlize Theron) the second main character. The shift in optics is an important evolutionary step for the post-apocalypse genre, which is usually dominated by over-masculinized jocks. In Fury Road, Miller mocks the cult of masculinity by contrasting the order of decrepit old man Immortan Joe, whose decaying body requires constant care, and young Furiosa, who believes in a world without unnecessary bloodshed.
"Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" is a spin-off and story prequel to the previous installment, expanding the lore of the franchise's world and elevating the pathos of the action to the crash and resurrection of civilizations. George Miller strings the story of self-sabotaging leaders and one man's attempt to resist a cruel system onto a composite of ancient Greek poems (e.g., Homer's Iliad). Almost all events have a complete mirror image: what happens in the beginning will be repeated in the finale, but with a different meaning. The beautiful structure of the plot is framed by roaring action, where pieces of brains fly into the camera lens, and cars are ground into an iron medley. Up to milliseconds of calibrated editing, clear sound and visual solutions keep the dynamics afloat and show the director's sense of taste and awareness of the aesthetics of his own work.
Through the beauty and filth of bloodbaths, where poor people pick the opahs off corpses and then eat them, George Miller speculates on humanity's quest for self-destruction and regeneration. The rulers of the cities in the world of "Mad Max" have the power and resources to provide a normal human existence, but instead they think of imperial grandeur and try to delay their demise as long as possible. Stolen from the Green Lands, Furiosa becomes a symbol of recovery and hope, she rises time after time after the blows of fate to give a new fight. The secret of such resilience lies in the deep belief that even in the darkest of times one must remember the other, the bright life that can be achieved by planting the seed of goodness in soil tainted by evil.