Biblical Topoi in Mad Max: Furry Road Sacrifice, Hope and Perseverance
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Januari 09, 2018 |
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Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) is the fourth Mad Max film, and is directed by George Miller. This film, like the other three ones explores themes of societal decay and the heroism of everyday people in a violent world. There are lots of action scenes with big explosions and lots of crashes. But it also demonstrates that action films can have substance. It takes the genre of action film to a different level, adding complex themes of justice and redemption.
Watching this film I found many religious imageries: Hope, Redemption, Brokenness, Fall, Blood, Life, Death, Curse, Witness, Prayer, Self Sacrifice.
In this paper I will consider some imageries of the film. I shall begin with the film’s plot, then I’ll consider the imageries. I choose some clips to show their relation to the biblical topoi (and Christian theology) as Living Water, Sacrifice, Hope and Perseverance, and Triumph over Satan. The videoclips must be understood and interpreted in the whole scene of the film.
I, then, conclude that this film is another beautiful way of telling the Exodus of the Bible.
1. The Plot
Planet Earth has been turned into an arid, sun-baked wasteland in a future time. Civilization as we know it has collapsed and in its place, there just a subhuman race. This one is located in Australia and Max has been taken prisoner by the War Boys, the hordes controlled by the evil warlord, King Immortan Joe. Max is special as he has been marked as a universal blood donor, and is therefore used by Immortan as a blood bag for the sick War Boy Nux.
In another scene, Furiosa steers drives her heavily-armed and armored truck called a War Rig to deliver some supplies. Suddenly and without warning, Furiosa steers the vehicle off the designated route. Joe find out that his Five Wives — genetically pure women who are selected for bearing his children — are not in the prison he keeps them locked in. Angered, Joe takes out his entire War Boy army to get Furiosa, enlisting the help of forces from Gas Town and the Bullet Farm - two areas that are close by.
Nux has a moment of realization when one of the Five Wives tells him that he is just a pawn in an old man's army. He later falls for one of the Five Wives and then joins forces with Max and Furiosa. In the ensuing battle between Furiosa and Joe's army, Furiosa boldly makes for a terrible sandstorm, which allows her to evade Joe for the time being. But Nux who tries to sacrifice himself in a blaze of glory to stop Furiosa, remains chained to Max. Max escapes and neutralizes Nux. Max staggers towards Furiosa and sees her doing maintenance on her Rig, and the Wives, who are outside and washing the dust and grime off themselves. Max commandeers the Rig, but its pre-programmed kill-switch disables the truck after barely a mile or so. Max then has to choice but to agree to allow Furiosa and the Wives accompany him, while Nux who has been abandoned, staggers back to Immortan.
Furiosa then powers her War Rig right through the Biker gang stronghold and gets inside a small canyon. She has made a deal with them to allow her to go in return for supplying them with thousands of gallons of fuel. However, Joe's forces are in hot pursuit and Furiosa escapes even as the Bikers detonate the nearby canyon walls to block Joe's path with rubble. Max and Furiosa fend off the pursuing Bikers but Joe's vehicle evades the blockade and assaults the Rig.
Nux boards the Rig while Joe attempts to shoot Furiosa. The Splendid Angharad, who Joe has made pregnant, shields Furiosa, but falls from the Rig and is run over by Joe's car, killing her and his child in the process. Furiosa explains to Max that they are escaping to the Green Place, a location she remembers from when she was a child. Capable, one of the Five Wives, finds Nux, distraught that he contributed to the death of Joe's pregnant wife; she consoles him. At night, the heavy Rig gets caught in deep mud. Furiosa and Max slow Joe's forces with explosives, but Joe's ally, the Bullet Farmer, pursues the Rig. Nux helps free the Rig while Furiosa shoots and blinds the Bullet Farmer. He retaliates with machine gun fire and explosives. Max wanders into the dark to confront the Bullet Farmer, returning to the Rig with guns and ammunition.
As dawn breaks, the Rig travels through swampland and desert, eventually coming across a naked woman. Max identifies it as a trap, but Furiosa leaves the Rig and states her former clan affiliation. The woman summons her group who realize that Furiosa is a member of their clan, kidnapped with her mother when she was a child. Furiosa is distraught to learn that the swamp land they passed was the Green Place, which is now uninhabitable. The clan, Furiosa, the Wives, and Nux agree to take their bikes and set out across the immense salt flats in the hope of finding somewhere new to live. Max chooses to stay behind, but after seeing visions of his dead daughter, he convinces them to return to the Citadel, which has ample water and greenery that Joe keeps for himself, and trap Joe and his army in the Biker's canyon.
The group begins the journey back to the Citadel, eventually encountering Joe. A battle is waged by the two sides, and Furiosa is gravely wounded. Joe positions his car in front of the Rig to slow it, while Max fights Joe's son Rictus. Toast the Knowing is captured and put on Joe's car, but she distracts him, allowing Furiosa to hook Joe's mask to his car's rotating wheels, tearing his face off and killing him. Nux sacrifices himself by destroying the Rig, blocking the canyon, killing Rictus, and allowing Max, Furiosa, and the Wives to escape in Joe's car. Max gives his blood to Furiosa, to help her survive her injuries.
At the Citadel, Joe's citizens are overjoyed at the sight of Joe's corpse. Furiosa and the Wives are raised up on a lift by the child War Boys. As Furiosa looks back, she realizes that Max has stayed behind and is moving away through the crowd. They then look at each other, and bid each other farewell, knowing perhaps, that their paths will cross again.
2. Imageries Considerations
2.1 Immortan Joe: Lucifer and The Living Water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBD30p1tUgg
Immortan Joe, fits the profile of Lucifer (Satan) in the Bible. If there’s one thing that Satan always tries to do as depicted in the Bible it’s blocking access to true life and giving people a pale imitation of God’s perfection.
Immortan Joe controls the only source of clean water in the Wasteland. He has access to a pump system that draws massive volumes of water from aquifers deep beneath the earth. It’s essentially a gargantuan well.
In the Bible, those who dug wells and controlled the water became the owners of the land. In Biblical times, wells were deeds to the land. Whoever controlled the wells controlled everything. Jehovah is described as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. All three men as shown in Genesis 26 were well-diggers.
Jesus, in John 4, spoke of a spiritual well and used Jacob’s well as symbolism for “living water,” which, according to Jesus, is the only place where we can find true life that will last into eternity, and also according to Jesus this living water can only be found in Him. But, unlike Satan (and any religious or non-religious leader controlled by Satan), Jesus pours out His living water freely without limit to anyone who believes in Him and asks for that water.
In the Bible, we see Satan over and over again finding ways to stop people from gaining access to God’s spiritual well of living water. Through idolatry, greed, fear anything he could find Satan trapped and enslaved people into depending on him for spiritual water and cutting people off from ever finding the true water of God.
Immortan Joe does the same thing. He keeps all of society enslaved to him, and he only gives them little tastes of water never the whole volume of it, and never enough to bring any real health or freedom. He even creates a false religion around his persona. He lifts himself up as “their redeemer” and struts around as a messiah. But he is a false messiah who is unwilling to back up his grand promises of Valhalla, and in truth he despises the people.
That’s exactly how Lucifer is depicted in the Bible. His main interest is gaining as much power over humans as he can, and then establishing himself as a messiah, a false god worthy of worship — all the while enslaving and destroying those who worship him.
So, from that angle, “Fury Road” presents an archetype who closely resembles the traits of Lucifer in the Bible.
2.2 Nux and The War Boys: Sacrifice
“My world is fire and blood,” says Max in his opening monologue, and there’s plenty of fire and blood to go around. The blood comes in the form of the unpleasant sacrifices we see people having to make in order to survive. Both the fire and the blood compose the fuel that propagates the modus operandi of this society: be good so that you can go to Valhalla.
Videoclips:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mTzUT7XkKE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4cafPOBubc
For the War Boys – the militant arm of the Citadel – being good enough to go to Valhalla means being “kamakrazee” enough to give up one’s own life for that of Immortan Joe, the commander-in-chief himself. And while most War Boys answer their call without a hitch, one War Boy named Nux can’t seem to get it right.
His first attempt involves flooding his car with guzzoline (gasoline), cutting in front of the hijacked War Rig, lighting a road flare, and then putting the flame to the pool of guzzoline. This would cause his pursuit vehicle to explode, and that explosion would stop the War Rig. Mad Max, however, is able to stop Nux from touching the flame to the guzzoline, and Nux’s efforts are wasted.
Nux gets a chance to redeem himself to Immortan Joe when he offers to climb aboard the War Rig again and pike Furiosa – the one who commandeered the War Rig – in the spine. Immortan Joe personally blesses the mission by handing Nux a piston along with the permission to shoot Furiosa in the skull. Upon completion, Immortan Joe promises to carry Nux himself to the glorious gates of Valhalla. Clumsy Nux messes up once again and then is abandoned by Immortan Joe because of that failure.
This is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhm-4kDBhio
The key to understanding these botched sacrifices is in understanding that they were ignoble and selfish and thus overall detestable. Nux wasn’t even really sacrificing himself for anyone but himself, no matter what pretentious pomp and circumstance he surrounded the attempts with. On top of that, his sacrifices, had they worked, would have meant the death of innocent people for no reason but his own comfort and glorification.
These kinds of sacrifices are what the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob hates. As he tells the Israelite people through his prophet Malachi, he wishes someone would close the temple doors because those sacrifice stink so badly. He doesn’t want pretentious and selfish religiosity but actual care for those who cannot take care of themselves; such was the example he set for us by exacting the judgment we deserve on his own Son on our behalf so that we could live a life filled with love like He wants us to.
Videoclip of Nux’ True Sacrifice: https://youtu.be/blDjU-W95II
However, time passed and Nux has learn enough from his experience. In a scene he sacrifices himself, but not for Immortan Joe. He sacrifice himself for the “good men” team, on their way back to Citadel.
2.3 Furiosa and the Team: Hope and Perseverance
Videoclip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QOcaW1M3JM
Once again, this is a desert wasteland, and resources for survival are few and far between. The most valuable resource, water, is being controlled by the Immortan Joe, who will only pump it out whenever he sees fit. This wouldn’t be a problem if he didn’t degrade water as “addictive” and blame it for society’s troubles like he does. His people hunger and thirst while he waters his own plants on a continual basis.
That’s why Joe’s concubines, his imprisoned “Breeders,” have sought out the aid of the Imperator Furiosa to take them to a better life. They’ve all heard of the Green Place; Furiosa was even born there. No doubt she has told them all stories of that beautiful location and thus created a longing within them so strong to make them want to beseech Furiosa’s help in this mission.
It isn’t just about the Green Place for Furiosa, though, or anyone else for that matter. The concubines, Furiosa, Nux, and Max are all longing for something better than their present state. The “promise” of Valhalla falls short to the hope these characters have in a place that can help them live a better life.
But after they discover that the Green Place no longer exists, the convoy realizes that their best option now is to overthrow the Citadel and liberate the resources that Immortan Joe has been hoarding for himself. The plan is even feasible because the Citadel is unprotected; any armed services are still out in the desert with Immortan Joe. The mission then becomes to reach the Citadel before the other team, and the winner will take all.
Videoclip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HClM8YvNljo
Coming back to Citadel, is not without hindrance and challenge. They have to fight heavily on the way back. But there is still hope, and perseverance of the team. The good guys of Mad Max Fury Road to be like the faithful remnant of the Israelite people as described in the Old Testament. When the rest of Israel fell away to other gods and pagan practices, a small group – the faithful remnant – stayed vigilant and longed for the home from which they had been evicted. They hoped to return one day, but they knew that God had to go before them and clear the way in order for them to enter into.
This is the example of the faithful remnants of both the Israelites and Furiosa’s team: stay faithful, stay hopeful, and remain vigilant in our faith. Keyword: persevere. Because when that for which we have longed comes to pass – you know, like being back home with God – it will be a dream fulfilled.
2.4 The Final Scene: Triumph over Satan
Videoclip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UzaRsCrNDY
The film was ended by the triumphal coming of the Team to Citadel. The scene depict the dead of Immortan Joe, and the people screaming of joy. They are freed from the slavery of Immortan Joe. It closely resembles the triumph of Jesus over Satan.
The scene which Mad Max stand over the dead body of Immortan Joe reminds us of the Ressurection of Jesus on the third day, when Satan lost his power over mankind. And man will participate in the live of Jesus the Redemptor.
3. Conclusion
One can say that the whole movie can be interpretated in several ways. But we can say that this is the movie about The Exodus in the Bible. First the Exodus of Israel as an archetype for the exodus of every human being from the slavery of this world and Satan as the King of this world. It is a journey toward the Promise Land, the Paradise, which is a journey full of challenge. And only hope, perseverance and sacrifice, one can go into the Paradise, the promise land, that is living happily in the source of the Living Water: God the Holy Trinity.
Watching this film I found many religious imageries: Hope, Redemption, Brokenness, Fall, Blood, Life, Death, Curse, Witness, Prayer, Self Sacrifice.
In this paper I will consider some imageries of the film. I shall begin with the film’s plot, then I’ll consider the imageries. I choose some clips to show their relation to the biblical topoi (and Christian theology) as Living Water, Sacrifice, Hope and Perseverance, and Triumph over Satan. The videoclips must be understood and interpreted in the whole scene of the film.
I, then, conclude that this film is another beautiful way of telling the Exodus of the Bible.
1. The Plot
Planet Earth has been turned into an arid, sun-baked wasteland in a future time. Civilization as we know it has collapsed and in its place, there just a subhuman race. This one is located in Australia and Max has been taken prisoner by the War Boys, the hordes controlled by the evil warlord, King Immortan Joe. Max is special as he has been marked as a universal blood donor, and is therefore used by Immortan as a blood bag for the sick War Boy Nux.
In another scene, Furiosa steers drives her heavily-armed and armored truck called a War Rig to deliver some supplies. Suddenly and without warning, Furiosa steers the vehicle off the designated route. Joe find out that his Five Wives — genetically pure women who are selected for bearing his children — are not in the prison he keeps them locked in. Angered, Joe takes out his entire War Boy army to get Furiosa, enlisting the help of forces from Gas Town and the Bullet Farm - two areas that are close by.
Nux has a moment of realization when one of the Five Wives tells him that he is just a pawn in an old man's army. He later falls for one of the Five Wives and then joins forces with Max and Furiosa. In the ensuing battle between Furiosa and Joe's army, Furiosa boldly makes for a terrible sandstorm, which allows her to evade Joe for the time being. But Nux who tries to sacrifice himself in a blaze of glory to stop Furiosa, remains chained to Max. Max escapes and neutralizes Nux. Max staggers towards Furiosa and sees her doing maintenance on her Rig, and the Wives, who are outside and washing the dust and grime off themselves. Max commandeers the Rig, but its pre-programmed kill-switch disables the truck after barely a mile or so. Max then has to choice but to agree to allow Furiosa and the Wives accompany him, while Nux who has been abandoned, staggers back to Immortan.
Furiosa then powers her War Rig right through the Biker gang stronghold and gets inside a small canyon. She has made a deal with them to allow her to go in return for supplying them with thousands of gallons of fuel. However, Joe's forces are in hot pursuit and Furiosa escapes even as the Bikers detonate the nearby canyon walls to block Joe's path with rubble. Max and Furiosa fend off the pursuing Bikers but Joe's vehicle evades the blockade and assaults the Rig.
Nux boards the Rig while Joe attempts to shoot Furiosa. The Splendid Angharad, who Joe has made pregnant, shields Furiosa, but falls from the Rig and is run over by Joe's car, killing her and his child in the process. Furiosa explains to Max that they are escaping to the Green Place, a location she remembers from when she was a child. Capable, one of the Five Wives, finds Nux, distraught that he contributed to the death of Joe's pregnant wife; she consoles him. At night, the heavy Rig gets caught in deep mud. Furiosa and Max slow Joe's forces with explosives, but Joe's ally, the Bullet Farmer, pursues the Rig. Nux helps free the Rig while Furiosa shoots and blinds the Bullet Farmer. He retaliates with machine gun fire and explosives. Max wanders into the dark to confront the Bullet Farmer, returning to the Rig with guns and ammunition.
As dawn breaks, the Rig travels through swampland and desert, eventually coming across a naked woman. Max identifies it as a trap, but Furiosa leaves the Rig and states her former clan affiliation. The woman summons her group who realize that Furiosa is a member of their clan, kidnapped with her mother when she was a child. Furiosa is distraught to learn that the swamp land they passed was the Green Place, which is now uninhabitable. The clan, Furiosa, the Wives, and Nux agree to take their bikes and set out across the immense salt flats in the hope of finding somewhere new to live. Max chooses to stay behind, but after seeing visions of his dead daughter, he convinces them to return to the Citadel, which has ample water and greenery that Joe keeps for himself, and trap Joe and his army in the Biker's canyon.
The group begins the journey back to the Citadel, eventually encountering Joe. A battle is waged by the two sides, and Furiosa is gravely wounded. Joe positions his car in front of the Rig to slow it, while Max fights Joe's son Rictus. Toast the Knowing is captured and put on Joe's car, but she distracts him, allowing Furiosa to hook Joe's mask to his car's rotating wheels, tearing his face off and killing him. Nux sacrifices himself by destroying the Rig, blocking the canyon, killing Rictus, and allowing Max, Furiosa, and the Wives to escape in Joe's car. Max gives his blood to Furiosa, to help her survive her injuries.
At the Citadel, Joe's citizens are overjoyed at the sight of Joe's corpse. Furiosa and the Wives are raised up on a lift by the child War Boys. As Furiosa looks back, she realizes that Max has stayed behind and is moving away through the crowd. They then look at each other, and bid each other farewell, knowing perhaps, that their paths will cross again.
2. Imageries Considerations
2.1 Immortan Joe: Lucifer and The Living Water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBD30p1tUgg
Immortan Joe, fits the profile of Lucifer (Satan) in the Bible. If there’s one thing that Satan always tries to do as depicted in the Bible it’s blocking access to true life and giving people a pale imitation of God’s perfection.
Immortan Joe controls the only source of clean water in the Wasteland. He has access to a pump system that draws massive volumes of water from aquifers deep beneath the earth. It’s essentially a gargantuan well.
In the Bible, those who dug wells and controlled the water became the owners of the land. In Biblical times, wells were deeds to the land. Whoever controlled the wells controlled everything. Jehovah is described as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. All three men as shown in Genesis 26 were well-diggers.
Jesus, in John 4, spoke of a spiritual well and used Jacob’s well as symbolism for “living water,” which, according to Jesus, is the only place where we can find true life that will last into eternity, and also according to Jesus this living water can only be found in Him. But, unlike Satan (and any religious or non-religious leader controlled by Satan), Jesus pours out His living water freely without limit to anyone who believes in Him and asks for that water.
In the Bible, we see Satan over and over again finding ways to stop people from gaining access to God’s spiritual well of living water. Through idolatry, greed, fear anything he could find Satan trapped and enslaved people into depending on him for spiritual water and cutting people off from ever finding the true water of God.
Immortan Joe does the same thing. He keeps all of society enslaved to him, and he only gives them little tastes of water never the whole volume of it, and never enough to bring any real health or freedom. He even creates a false religion around his persona. He lifts himself up as “their redeemer” and struts around as a messiah. But he is a false messiah who is unwilling to back up his grand promises of Valhalla, and in truth he despises the people.
That’s exactly how Lucifer is depicted in the Bible. His main interest is gaining as much power over humans as he can, and then establishing himself as a messiah, a false god worthy of worship — all the while enslaving and destroying those who worship him.
So, from that angle, “Fury Road” presents an archetype who closely resembles the traits of Lucifer in the Bible.
2.2 Nux and The War Boys: Sacrifice
“My world is fire and blood,” says Max in his opening monologue, and there’s plenty of fire and blood to go around. The blood comes in the form of the unpleasant sacrifices we see people having to make in order to survive. Both the fire and the blood compose the fuel that propagates the modus operandi of this society: be good so that you can go to Valhalla.
Videoclips:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mTzUT7XkKE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4cafPOBubc
For the War Boys – the militant arm of the Citadel – being good enough to go to Valhalla means being “kamakrazee” enough to give up one’s own life for that of Immortan Joe, the commander-in-chief himself. And while most War Boys answer their call without a hitch, one War Boy named Nux can’t seem to get it right.
His first attempt involves flooding his car with guzzoline (gasoline), cutting in front of the hijacked War Rig, lighting a road flare, and then putting the flame to the pool of guzzoline. This would cause his pursuit vehicle to explode, and that explosion would stop the War Rig. Mad Max, however, is able to stop Nux from touching the flame to the guzzoline, and Nux’s efforts are wasted.
Nux gets a chance to redeem himself to Immortan Joe when he offers to climb aboard the War Rig again and pike Furiosa – the one who commandeered the War Rig – in the spine. Immortan Joe personally blesses the mission by handing Nux a piston along with the permission to shoot Furiosa in the skull. Upon completion, Immortan Joe promises to carry Nux himself to the glorious gates of Valhalla. Clumsy Nux messes up once again and then is abandoned by Immortan Joe because of that failure.
This is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhm-4kDBhio
The key to understanding these botched sacrifices is in understanding that they were ignoble and selfish and thus overall detestable. Nux wasn’t even really sacrificing himself for anyone but himself, no matter what pretentious pomp and circumstance he surrounded the attempts with. On top of that, his sacrifices, had they worked, would have meant the death of innocent people for no reason but his own comfort and glorification.
These kinds of sacrifices are what the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob hates. As he tells the Israelite people through his prophet Malachi, he wishes someone would close the temple doors because those sacrifice stink so badly. He doesn’t want pretentious and selfish religiosity but actual care for those who cannot take care of themselves; such was the example he set for us by exacting the judgment we deserve on his own Son on our behalf so that we could live a life filled with love like He wants us to.
Videoclip of Nux’ True Sacrifice: https://youtu.be/blDjU-W95II
However, time passed and Nux has learn enough from his experience. In a scene he sacrifices himself, but not for Immortan Joe. He sacrifice himself for the “good men” team, on their way back to Citadel.
2.3 Furiosa and the Team: Hope and Perseverance
Videoclip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QOcaW1M3JM
Once again, this is a desert wasteland, and resources for survival are few and far between. The most valuable resource, water, is being controlled by the Immortan Joe, who will only pump it out whenever he sees fit. This wouldn’t be a problem if he didn’t degrade water as “addictive” and blame it for society’s troubles like he does. His people hunger and thirst while he waters his own plants on a continual basis.
That’s why Joe’s concubines, his imprisoned “Breeders,” have sought out the aid of the Imperator Furiosa to take them to a better life. They’ve all heard of the Green Place; Furiosa was even born there. No doubt she has told them all stories of that beautiful location and thus created a longing within them so strong to make them want to beseech Furiosa’s help in this mission.
It isn’t just about the Green Place for Furiosa, though, or anyone else for that matter. The concubines, Furiosa, Nux, and Max are all longing for something better than their present state. The “promise” of Valhalla falls short to the hope these characters have in a place that can help them live a better life.
But after they discover that the Green Place no longer exists, the convoy realizes that their best option now is to overthrow the Citadel and liberate the resources that Immortan Joe has been hoarding for himself. The plan is even feasible because the Citadel is unprotected; any armed services are still out in the desert with Immortan Joe. The mission then becomes to reach the Citadel before the other team, and the winner will take all.
Videoclip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HClM8YvNljo
Coming back to Citadel, is not without hindrance and challenge. They have to fight heavily on the way back. But there is still hope, and perseverance of the team. The good guys of Mad Max Fury Road to be like the faithful remnant of the Israelite people as described in the Old Testament. When the rest of Israel fell away to other gods and pagan practices, a small group – the faithful remnant – stayed vigilant and longed for the home from which they had been evicted. They hoped to return one day, but they knew that God had to go before them and clear the way in order for them to enter into.
This is the example of the faithful remnants of both the Israelites and Furiosa’s team: stay faithful, stay hopeful, and remain vigilant in our faith. Keyword: persevere. Because when that for which we have longed comes to pass – you know, like being back home with God – it will be a dream fulfilled.
2.4 The Final Scene: Triumph over Satan
Videoclip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UzaRsCrNDY
The film was ended by the triumphal coming of the Team to Citadel. The scene depict the dead of Immortan Joe, and the people screaming of joy. They are freed from the slavery of Immortan Joe. It closely resembles the triumph of Jesus over Satan.
The scene which Mad Max stand over the dead body of Immortan Joe reminds us of the Ressurection of Jesus on the third day, when Satan lost his power over mankind. And man will participate in the live of Jesus the Redemptor.
3. Conclusion
One can say that the whole movie can be interpretated in several ways. But we can say that this is the movie about The Exodus in the Bible. First the Exodus of Israel as an archetype for the exodus of every human being from the slavery of this world and Satan as the King of this world. It is a journey toward the Promise Land, the Paradise, which is a journey full of challenge. And only hope, perseverance and sacrifice, one can go into the Paradise, the promise land, that is living happily in the source of the Living Water: God the Holy Trinity.
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