Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) is one of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen.

Yes, beautiful.

Maybe that's not the word someone would describe George Millers modern masterpiece, but I will.

Mad Max Fury Road shows us that all the choreographed and handcrafted action can take place in a moving rhythm. Anyone who accuses this film of being just a battle of material or a glorification of gigantomania has not understood something. In refusing a superficial story, Mad Max stands out from the other blockbusters.

Fury Road is loud, very loud, but the movie doesn't numb you. The whole is an overall composition of sound, image and cut of crystalline beauty. Yes, beauty.

This film is a poetic experience that is both direct and completely abstract. We are directly affected by the pictures and basses, but at the same time everything remains abstract, since we cannot identify directly with any person.

Mad Max Fury Road provides us with answers to questions we have never asked. Formally speaking, we are actually similar to the characters in the film. How they wander around without any direction, but with a smile on their face? They move from point A to point B and when they are at point B, they go back to point A. This directionlessness also drives us humans through the area, but also keeps us in motion.

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus was the thinker of opposites. Land and sea, day and night and so on. All opposites form a unity. The most important message is that the way back and forth is one and the same way. Doesn't this make the entire chase obsolete?

George Miller uses this unity of opposites. In sound design we have both fortissimo and pianissimo interludes and nothing in between. Many post-apocalyptic films show an order into which chaos slowly enters. Fury Road now shows how an order is forming in chaos. But does it make any difference?

Submitted July 23, 2018 at 07:13AM by IngobernableACE https://ift.tt/2JHKkMN