Looking at the world of Mad Max

Rating: 8/10 (5 June 2015)

After seeing for a second time, I have to say it is f***ing awesome. Like my first viewing it is still clear it has no story just a premise, but then on a second viewing I realized that is the whole point.
This is a film about the remnants of mankind surviving by any means possible in a corrupted and twisted apocalyptic future. Therefore there will not be any complex stories or intricacies, no-one is living a complex life anymore, life is now just basic savagery and brutality to survive, we are looking at a 'normal' day in this world.
For this reason I think Mad Max is a great film, a film where a normal day no longer has subtlety or subtext just Barbary and carnage. I see no story because this film takes place in a world where I don't belong, In my 21st century western life every day is filled with complex social and personal happenings so when I view a day in the life of Mad Max I am looking at a day in the life of a person and place where there are no such things.
Mad Max to me is a story our prehistoric ancestors would understand - for it is a story about a scary world where brutality is the dish of the day.
A rambling by me Immortan Fred