‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Review: Feminism and Metal Mangling Done Right
There is some concern that “Fury Road” is a piece of feminist propaganda (Miller is a flaming lefty). In many ways that actually is the case. I also don’t think it’s a bad thing. Oftentimes, and for long periods, “Fury Road” takes the focus off Hardy to hand the spotlight to Theron. And there is no question that Furiosa drives all but the third act of the story. Keep in mind, though, that there’s feminism and then there’s feminism.
*Some Spoilers*
“Fury Road’ is nothing like the diseased modern-day, left-wing feminism spread by the likes of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Miller’s women are not victims, are not Julias, are not dependent on a central government to solve all their problems, are not wallowing in a narcissistic cult of their own victimhood, and are not acting like men.
In fact, just the opposite is true. Miller’s heroines are beautiful, feminine, and breaking away from a cult of personality and its tyrannical central government. These are feminists who have come for their God-given rights, not emasculate. They don’t crybaby, they act. They don’t tell others how to behave, they fight. They don’t want to take away your rights, but they damn sure are demanding their own.
These are women too busy being strong and independent to collapse into a helpless ball of harpy outrage over imagined offenses.
In this Godless world, there’s even a moment of instinctual prayer — and not to the god of partial-birth abortion.