THE ROAD WARRIOR
Archival 35mm print! Sun - Wed at The Ritz
The toughest movie of the 20th Century!
While it's sometimes depressing to realize that civilization is crumbling all around us and we'll all be scavenging for meat and fuel within weeks, it's also comforting to watch THE ROAD WARRIOR and realize how cool it's going to look. Seriously, Mel Gibson as Mad Max runs into a spot of trouble here and there but he kicks a thousand tons of ass. The movie is directed with so much skill and a serious movie buff's aptitude for the exact, perfect photographic angle or cutaway shot that it transcends the flat ugliness of the outback terrain and makes it a primal battleground for what's left of Good vs. rampaging, triumphant Evil. Lord Humungus and his triple-ugly crew of leatherpunk shit-starters are hall of fame bad guys and they enforce their own brand of social Darwinism with a gnarly mailed fist. It's up to Mad Max to be the de facto justice system in the midst of a war between the gasoline-crazed thugs and the perpetually oppressed good guys, who just want to raise their feral children and fly their super-incredible autogyros.
It's a film that has contributed whole volumes to the visual and aural language of filmmaking. Directed by George Miller at his Spielbergian peak. The photography, editing, stunt-work, art-direction and costume design are all divinely inspired, as if a force from beyond wanted to warn us about becoming too reliant on petroleum-based fuels. We're ready to listen.
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