| Burek said: One sentence in the trailer sums up this whole movie: A two hour chase scene with no plot. |
Except there is a plot. A decent one at that. Immortan Joe is looking to create a successor. The problem is, with radiation and all, turning out a normal looking baby that is entirely healthy can be very, very difficult. Thus, our good buddy Joe took the most viable women captive, the flawless women that showed no signs of radiation taking its toll, in order to basically sex them repeatedly until one of them had a normal, healthy, male child. Formerly a loyal soldier, Furiosa catches wind of the plight these women are facing and hatches a plot to save them. All of this happens before the movie even starts of course, but it's not hard to pick up on. It's revealed later on that Furiosa felt she could save them, as she had formerly come from a "green place" that still had seemingly healthy vegetation. That was the safe haven. It was the goal.
Then you have Max, who gets super unlucky and gets captured by some War Boys under Immortan Joe at the beginning of the movie. He has the misfortune of being a universal donor blood type and turns into a blood bag that War Boys use for transfusing clean blood into their irradiated bodies. He gets pulled into the chase that begins when Furiosa goes off course, as the War Boy using him wants to join the chase as well.
Thus, while Furiosa is defending her truck filled with Joe's "wives", Max is narrowly avoiding death time and time again as he's dragged around, looking for any out he can get. Finally, after driving into a sandstorm, things hit a bit of a climax when Max ends up freed (sort of), and when after, Furiosa deems fit to stop to give the women some air. This leads to the meeting between Furiosa and Max, where a decision has to be made by both whether the other is even remotely trustworthy. As the chase goes on, you realize Immortan Joe is a well connected fellow, and see the lengths he will go to in order to get back these women that he seems to have gained some emotional attachment to. Whether or not it's because they're seen as the only viable breeders around or not, or if it goes beyond that in a weird way (seeing as he takes them captive) is hard to say. As well, you see Furiosa and Max develop a trust between them as survivors and warriors that carries them through the chase back to the Citadel after the realities of the world they find themselves in becomes apparent to all.
In goes on and on. It is really not hard to find the plot and themes in the movie. In fact, it's so glaringly obvious, I don't know how people miss it. Yeah, it isn't the most sophisticated plot to grace a screen. No, they don't spend the entire movie having conversations that conveniently spell out plot points in the most obvious way possible. It's more subtle, yet still so obvious. The way effects are used, with practical effects prioritized over CGI, is pretty awesome too. I think it adds something when everything looks so real, since at some point during production, it almost all was, even if it ended up getting pieced together in post.
People love to try to crap on the plot of Fury Road, but honestly, I'm starting to think those that miss it are so oblivious, the film wasn't meant for them anyways.
