What a beautiful, pretty day! After years of anticipation and discussion, George Miller’s follow-up to Mad Max: Fury Road is lastly right here. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is now in theaters and it acts as an ideal praise to that 2015 masterpiece, giving the character of Furiosa an intense backstory whereas additionally constructing out the world of the Wasteland.
And whereas there’s nothing wildly shocking within the movie, particularly since we all know what occurs instantly after, we do love the ending so much and figured you would possibly need to dive into it a bit after seeing the movie. Main spoilers observe.
All of Furiosa leads as much as the character (Anya Taylor-Pleasure) lastly getting head to head with Dementus (Chris Hemsworth), the maniacal warlord primarily accountable for ruining her life by kidnapping her and killing her mom. The showdown occurs, Furiosa is victorious, however we then see a number of variations of the precise conclusion. It’s Miller’s wink at legend and storytelling. An acknowledgment that what’s actual and what’s instructed are usually not at all times the identical, particularly in mythology.
What’s fascinating right here is that the legends of how Furiosa defeated Dementus are approach much less thrilling than the reality. What Furiosa really did to Dementus wasn’t easy and easy. It was brutal. It was, actually, epic, and proves that her legend is merely a fraction of her actuality. She’s a legendary creature however in actual life, she’s even higher.
So what occurs? Nicely, all all through the film, we see that Furiosa carries a seed along with her. It’s a seed given to her by her mom as a reminder of her dwelling. It’s her most prized possession as a result of it’s not solely from her dwelling, it additionally represents the opportunity of renewal.
The seed doesn’t issue into the ultimate battle nevertheless it turns into essential proper after. As a substitute of simply killing Dementus, we see that Furiosa one way or the other figures out a approach to make use of his physique because the soil to provide life to the seed. He turns into a part of its roots, ceaselessly caught in agony, because the seed slowly sucks the life out of him and transforms into a wonderful fruit tree. Principally, Dementus turns into the premise for Furiosa’s rebirth. It’s an inexplicable, however brutal and engaging destiny for Hemsworth’s character. One ripe—pun meant—with which means.
Furiosa then picks a bit of fruit, brings it to Immortal Joe’s wives, and leads them to a Conflict Rig the place, in Mad Max: Fury Street, we’ll see them try to flee. The movie goes proper up till to the subsequent film. Then, ultimately credit, it even reveals just a little Fury Street spotlight reel simply as a reminder.
So Furiosa ends with the character changing into a Wasteland legend and linking up completely with the subsequent movie. By way of endings, it doesn’t get a lot better than that.
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