Product: Mad Max (1979)
Rating: 5.0
IF SHAKESPEARE WORE LEATHER, HE WOULD HAVE DONE MAD MAX
If you don't have Mad Max already, get it. When you do, see it for the fun, the violence, Mel - and then see it for the story construction. Mad Max is a classical and elegent heroic epic. The film is actually three films. The first focuses on the fall of Goose, Mad Max's foil. The second is the fall of Mad Max, from family man to rogue samari. The third is Mad Max's revenge. Road Warrior is good, but not as carefully constructed. However, Mad Max: Beyond the Thunderdome is a wonderful addition to the triology because it is essentially a modern retelling of Exodus. Mad Max is a type of Moses who leads the children to the promise land(Sydney) from the hands of "ignorance" and brutality "Romans/Egyptians". This is a film of Mad Max's redemption.