What a beautiful and beautiful day! After years of anticipation and discussionGeorge Miller's sequel to Mad Max: Road to Fury is finally here. Furiosa: A Mad Max saga is now in theaters and it serves as a perfect complement to this 2015 masterpiece, giving Furiosa's character an intense backstory while also building the world of the Wasteland.
And even if there is nothing savagely surprising in the film, especially since we know what happens immediately after, we really like the ending and we thought you might want to delve into it a little after seeing the film. Major spoilers follow.
All Furiosa leads to the character (Anya Taylor-Joy) finally coming face to face with Dementus (Chris Hemsworth), the maniacal warlord primarily responsible for ruining her life by kidnapping her and killing her mother. The confrontation takes place, Furiosa is victorious, but then we see several versions of the exact conclusion. It’s Miller’s nod to legend and storytelling. A recognition that what is real and what is told are not always the same, especially in mythology.
What's fascinating here is that the legends about how Furiosa defeated Dementus are far less exciting than the truth. What Furiosa actually did to Dementus wasn't simple and straightforward. It was brutal. It was actually epic and proves that its legend is only a fraction of its reality. It's a mythical creature but in real life it's even better.
So what's going on? Well, throughout the movie we see that Furiosa carries a seed with her. It's a seed given to him by his mother as a souvenir of her home. It is her most precious possession because it not only comes from her home, it also represents the possibility of renewal.
The seed does not come into play in the final fight but it becomes crucial right after. Instead of just killing Dementus, we see that Furiosa somehow finds a way to use his body as ground to bring the seed to life. It is part of its roots, stuck forever in agony, as the seed slowly sucks the life out of it and grows into a magnificent fruit tree. Basically, Dementus becomes the basis for Furiosa's rebirth. It's an inexplicable, but brutal and fascinating fate for Hemsworth's character. A ripe one – pun intended – with meaning.
Furiosa then picks a fruit, brings it to Immortal Joe's women and leads them to a War Rig where, in Mad Max: Fury Road, we will see them trying to escape. The movie continues until the next movie. Then, during the end credits, it even shows a little Fury Road highlight the reel just as a reminder.
SO Furiosa ends with the character becoming a Wasteland legend and tying in perfectly with the next film. In terms of endings, it doesn't get much better than this.
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