Mad Max: Fury Road -- Compelling & crazy violence

Starring: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne
Rated: 7/10
Was it 1979 or early 1980 when I was a little girl whose senses were assaulted as never before by the untamed violence of the film. Thirty-six years later, it yet again took my breath away and left me in deep shock. Mad Max, guys, has only got more violent, more compelling and more vicious. I wonder how director George Miller has been able to maintain his stark and singing cinematic fury at such a peak.
The latest one, a fire spewing, death charring, violent to the hilt desert safari on monstrous vehicles aboard which are deadly beings led by a ferocious Immortan Joe (he was the villain in the first one too) are in constant pursuit not just of madness but of “wives” with progenies. Ruling over an emaciated humanity by starving them of water, releasing only a few droplets now and then, Immortan Joe is betrayed by his lead worker (Charleze Theron) who organises the escape of the wives to the “Green Land” away from the machinations of Joe. The entire movie is the pursuit of this woman by Joe and gang with a side splash of a Blood Boy who provided these infernal beings with blood to survive.
Everything in this film is meant to strike you so hard that you lose your senses to it. And it does not pause in this goal. It assaults you in all ways you would have thought was not possible and it successfully leads you into the vortex of this on road lunacy. The beauty of it?
You castigate the film all through but when you look back you realise you held your breath all through and it is a more than compelling saga of cacophony, blood-letting, lizard eating spree from which you failed to draw away your eyes. I don’t know how many can sustain this brand of naked violence, I usually don’t. But I was left blustering, wondering and drawn in.
Source: Sunday Pioneer, 17 May, 2015

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