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[socialpoison]

Starting a collection...

[ellestra]

Beyond the Wasteland of Vengeance

I just watched Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and I loved it. It was hard at times as this is a harsh world and the rule of prequels tells us who has to die. But it was so worth it. We already know this is story of hope in the end. We know how Furiosa's Fury Road ends. It's starts with the same unrelenting determination (like the way she makes sure no one could tell of her home).

The cast is great (even if Chris Hemsworth fake face is somewhat distracting) but I think the most impressive was Alyla Browne who is Furiosa much longer than I expected for a film marketing Anya Taylor-Joy so heavily. She has some of the most badass parts (if you thought you hated Immortan Joe's sons before... well, thinking of their deaths is even more satisfying now). She is also made look so alike Anya that I initially missed the moment they switched.

But Immortan Joe and his band of monsters are just background creeps showing the decay of the world in general. The main villain is the one who took everything she loved from Furiosa. And didn't even remember half of it because he destroyed so many lives hers was nothing special. The one who set her on this path.

There is something sad about Dementus. You can almost feel, not compassion, but at least pity. You can see glimpses of a person he used to be before children died and you see how the end of the world destroyed him. It's like the voiceovers at the beginning describe what happened to his mind and soul when everything fell apart.

He's embodiment of that rot (and him going through white to red to black phases makes it even more clear). And he destroys everything he touches. At least the lords of Citadel, Bullet Farm and Gas Town built something. Something horrible and cruel but something. He can only destroy. He thinks finding Abundance will save him but he will only destroy that too. As I said, allegory.

Furiosa is his opposite because she doesn't let the cruelty of the world destroy her like this. She doesn't let the rot take hold of her and use her to spread. She never trusts the monsters surrounding her and she doesn't believe any of their promises. There is no safety in just letting them do that one thing. The cruelty will not end and will not be just that one thing.

I loved how she never stopped fighting. Not during her kidnapping. Not during her imprisonment. And then she found a way to escape one into another and then escape that one too. Using the very way those men wanted to poses her to plan her escape. Even when she loses her way home (figuratively and literally) to have her revenge it doesn't last. Even if she needed help in to follow her dream.

It's hard to trust in this world because a single act of kindness may cost you everything. But not everyone is evil. Even in Wasteland she finds someone who actually gives her help she needs. Someone she wishes to share her goal with. This films actually did "not all men" and it was great because it was earned but also because it helped explain why she would trust Max eventually. She already knew there are ones you can trust.

I tried to be pretty generic so far but behind this cut are SPOILERS for the very end (even though I don't say what it actually is - you can watch it yourself).

That ending was perfect both as foreshadowing who she will become but also as a callback to the beginning of the movie. Dementus tried to make her his daughter and use her to replace his children but she rejected him completely. Even if that was just swapping one monster for a bunch of even worse ones. And here at the ends he gloats about turning her into his daughter anyway. One in spirit anyway.

That like him she becomes creature of revenge and cruelty that nothing will ever satiate. Someone so obsessed with vengeance she will never stop even when the other side just want to leave (the mirroring of all the time he chased his prey and her chasing him was pretty nice). He thinks his death would just seal the deal because his suffering will never be great enough to soothe her pain.

You know, your standard - you will become like me spiel a villain does in moment like these. And lesser movies have heroes let villain go to prove them wrong (and then he tries to kill the hero anyway so the hero can have “my life was in danger” excuse to kill them anyway).

And she does lets him live but she doesn’t let him win. Once again she rejects him just like she did as a child. She remakes him into a symbol of her new purpose. She creates life out of a rotten man who did nothing but destroy lives of those around him. She makes him suffer for all the suffering he caused but that suffering is to build something new. And to create hope and future for those who have been abused by men like him.

And just like he asked she made it epic but as one last “fuck you” to him trying to control her story no one knows (well, almost no one). It’s epic and it’s a secret.

There is also something poetic that Furiosa eventually took over the Citadel - something he wanted so badly and never achieved. It retroactively made ending of Mad Max: Fury Road even better. And since it only took few days of them being gone he’s probably still there as she remakes it into the new Green Place.

[weak-hero]

talk about superior ships...

[shadesofbrixton]

Furiosa is so fucking good. It is also so fucking inherently different from the first film in terms of pacing and structure and it's very intentional about that and it makes my whole body thrill. I just gotta say like - vague spoilers under here -

...the end reveal made me explode into tears, violently. I just wasn't expecting the two stories to stitch up like that, and when it was suddenly put in my face, my whole body just erupted.

And that's on me as a viewer, not seeing that coming, but that's also the thing that I admire about George Miller - that even though I'm watching this film from a holistic standpoint, wanting to understand more and more about the universe, he's also capable of holding me suspended like a child sitting around a fire being told a creation story. In a story about loss of innocence, he makes an innocent of me, strips away my jadedness, gives me hope. What a storyteller.

[malatruse]

out of context furiosa spoilers

The best revenge is living well. wait not like that oh my god

[youkaiyume]

Not really Furiosa spoilers (I did see the movie I did have thoughts) But I distinctly remember a scene in which supplies, including a whole cartful of cabbages were flying/wasted everywhere and I thought

[bomberkaeru]

doodles

[brodorokihousuke]

this is literally the funniest fucking thing ive read ever

[vexinglyvolatile]

ace attorney memes i made part 3

link to meme catalogue

[taranturat]

Which room are you staying in (my friend forced me to add spark sorry) rooms were randomized

[ind1c0lite]

Redrew the cover for the magical turnabout <3

og and timelapse under the cut

[aa-power-of-nine]

Once upon a time, I wanted to try 3D to 2D sprite ideas, but I've mostly set it aside now that I don't have the time :')

Feel free to see all my attempts though :D

[From left to right, top to bottom (all poses are normal unless stated otherwise):

Academy Juniper Woods (anxious), Young Apollo Justice (confident)

Armie Buff, Robin Newman

Aura Blackquill, Marlon Rimes

Ga'ran Sigatar Khura'in, Ted Tonate

Ellen Wyatt, Sasha Buckler

Uendo Toneido, Geiru Toneido

Betty de Famme, Bonny de Famme

Myriam Scuttlebutt (unboxed), Casual Juniper Woods

Rayfa Padma Khura'in, Ahlbi Ur'gaid (thinking)

Hugh O'Conner]

[the-bar-sinister]

it hurts being in love with so many Ace Attorney background characters 😭😩

[soencersocks]

see the vision please

[malatruse]

Gonna be tagging posts about Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga as famms if you want to block the term

[dammitjameskirk]

imagine being branded like this in your career. imagine.