"What really rung very loudly in it was the importance that women have in this world of survival," she told Entertainment Weekly. Mad Max: Fury Road might feel like a two-hour nonstop car chase with an electric guitar blaring in your ears, but its violent core isn't fought over wealth or territory as in so many movies this war wages, quite literally, over women's bodies. ![]() She knows their abuser won't have it in himself to kill the potential heir inside of her. In one scene, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, a model and actress who plays one of the leader's wives, actually shields the other women from Immortan Joe's attack by blocking them with her swollen, pregnant stomach. If she doesn't take them away, they'll continue to live out their lives as sex slaves, owned by a man who sees them as the breeders of his heirs-completely stripped of personhood. Furiosa isn't chasing a man like she might in most female-led movies-she's helping other women escape the power-crazed male leader, Immortan Joe, who sexually abuses them. The feminist messages only stand out in their obviousness because we are so used to them not being there. The true strength of director George Miller's latest Mad Max movie is that it's an authentic action flick with feminist overtones, and not the other way around. If she doesn't take them away, they'll continue to live out their lives as sex slaves, owned by a man who sees them as the ![]() I wasn't the only one drawn in: The film grossed $109.5 million worldwide in its first few days of release. But I couldn't resist the pull this past weekend after early reviews promised an in-your-face feminist action movie where Charlize Theron totally kills it playing Imperator Furiosa, a fearless one-armed commander who drives a War Rig and orders the surprisingly vulnerable Max around. The trailer kind of gave me a headache-it looked loud and dusty and filled with things blowing up, followed by more things blowing up. I wasn't planning to see Mad Max: Fury Road.
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