The latest installment in George Miller’s post-apocalyptic “Mad Max” saga depicts the struggle for survival in a broken world with neither heroes nor sages.
Just saw it today, going in expecting to be wowed by the action and visuals. Unfortunately I was wowed once or twice (dug the stowaway truck sequence). But I got bored and checked out, yet again another revenge story. Like you I was completely surprised by the exchange about the suffering and revenge. Regarding the ending, Jeffrey Overstreet remarked in his Letterboxd review that it was like a perversion of the Eucharist, which struck me considering that he isn’t Catholic, but a very apt comparison.
Jeff attends an Episcopal church, I believe, and while he is not Catholic his imaginative sensibilities are very Catholic-adjacent, shaped by Catholic artists from Tolkien to O’Connor. I didn’t think of the eucharistic resonances myself until Jeff pointed them out to me.
Aaah, all this time I thought that he was of an evangelical branch. I’m guessing that he used to be. How wonderful that you two share such similar imaginative sensibilities!
Just saw it today, going in expecting to be wowed by the action and visuals. Unfortunately I was wowed once or twice (dug the stowaway truck sequence). But I got bored and checked out, yet again another revenge story. Like you I was completely surprised by the exchange about the suffering and revenge. Regarding the ending, Jeffrey Overstreet remarked in his Letterboxd review that it was like a perversion of the Eucharist, which struck me considering that he isn’t Catholic, but a very apt comparison.
Jeff attends an Episcopal church, I believe, and while he is not Catholic his imaginative sensibilities are very Catholic-adjacent, shaped by Catholic artists from Tolkien to O’Connor. I didn’t think of the eucharistic resonances myself until Jeff pointed them out to me.
Aaah, all this time I thought that he was of an evangelical branch. I’m guessing that he used to be. How wonderful that you two share such similar imaginative sensibilities!