![]() ![]() See, the road offers a chance of escape, but it's still pretty oppressive in many ways. And it's where anyone with a car and the wherewithal to drive it has a fighting chance to make it. It's where Max, resident loner and total weirdo feels most at home. The road is where Furiosa, Imperator and War Rig driver can really show her stuff. Out on the road, things aren't necessarily better-just a bit more equal. And way down there at the bottom are the Wretched, forced to beg for scraps-and slim pickings at that. As you work your way down the towers, you've got folks like the War Boys and the workers, who aren't exactly on permanent vacation, but hey, at least they're taken care of. Up top, he's living the life, holding his princesses captive and drinking all the mother's milk he can get his hands on. ![]() Think of the Citadel as a visual representation of Immortan Joe's cruelly stratified society. Basically, all the good things we love in life-yummy food and tasty water-are under Immortan Joe's not-so green thumb. The tops of the Citadel are lush and green, and as Immortan Joe makes his way through the halls, we can see that he controls farms as well. Seeing as how all these folks are stuck in a desert, water must be a pretty hot (or cool, as it were) commodity to Immortan Joe, who treats that water as if it were gold-his own gold, to be exact.įrom high atop the fortress, he doles out water on his whim, giving the Wretched below him just enough to tantalize them, but not enough to truly sustain them. Made up of three rocky towers, it sits over an aquifer, which pumps up clean, drinkable water from the earth. Arranged as a sort of vertical society-in which your lot in life improves the farther up you go-the Citadel is a fortress and an oasis all at once. As with any characters in a post-apocalyptic story, the wanderers in the wasteland must wrestle with how to hang onto your humanity in a world that asks you to fork it over in exchange for survival. See, when the world goes south, our souls go south, too. With few resources to go around and radiation sickness spreading throughout the land, people have been reduced to their basic instincts to survive: Max devours lizards, Furiosa does the bidding of a bad man because she has so few options, and Immortan Joe exploits everyone around him to hang onto what small amount of power the apocalypse will allow. ![]() That's all very tragic and we feel bad for mother earth and all that, but what's really terrible about this unforgiving desert wasteland is what it does to our characters. As the Vuvalini point out, nothing grows anywhere anymore-the earth's "too sour." While we don't have a lot of details on how the world got quite so terrible, we can assume that civilization has experienced some sort of post-industrial eco-collapse. Long after the water wars, and the oil wars, and the nuclear wars, the characters of Mad Max: Fury Road find themselves stranded in the wasteland to waste all wastelands. It's a mad, mad world, and Max is just (barely) living in it. The only thing harsher than its bleak-but-beautiful landscape is the apocalyptic time period in which the movie takes place. Rocky canyons, unforgiving salt flats, sandstone cliffs, gloopy gray quagmires-everywhere you go in Mad Max: Fury Road, you're faced with a world that isn't all that interested in helping you get along.
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