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Furiosa Isn’t Trying to Make the Apocalypse Look Cool
George Miller’s Fury Road sequel is a thrill, but also bleaker and more fantastical than you might expect.
A prequel, a revenge tale, and even something of a bildungsroman, the new film begins with young Furiosa (played as a child by Alyla Browne) kidnapped by a group of Dementus’s motorcycle marauders, who are then chased by her mother (Charlee Fraser), a member of the matriarchal Vuvalini tribe. It did depict the early stages of societal breakdown, with institutions slowly falling apart as biker gangs rode unchecked through the Australian countryside, but it was also the kind of movie in which the hero, a highway cop named Max (Mel Gibson), could still go for a picnic with his family. Miller still tosses in his beloved bits of makeshift technology — attack gliders with propellers, parachutists on skates, chariots made of motorcycles — and peculiar, throwaway characters, such as a guy named Pissboy who seems to exist solely to feed urine to a truck’s carburetor.
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