After the Apocalypse, Only Irony Remains....

[mrda]

I find it somewhat amusing that a significant chunk of 80s post-nuclear based visual entertainment (American straight-to-video flicks, Hokuto no Ken et al) derived its setting and most of the other aesthetic touches from the Mad Max movies, when the bleak surroundings of Mr Rockatansky came about not through a nuclear holocaust but through a

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[bastardzero]

I love that there's more history between Mad Max 2 and Thunderdome than there is behind the first two movies.

The apocalypse of Australia in Mad Max 2 isn't that they were attacked and destroyed. I believe the official story is that their end comes from the fact that all their resources are eaten up by the war and most of their policemen were drafted, allowing the criminals to outnumber them and become the law themselves.

Mad Max 2 is worthy of much intellectualizing and analyzation. An interesting thing is the Gayboy Berserkers, ex-policemen who joined up with the Lord Humungus. This can be seen as a comment on the kind of person who doesn't respect morality so much as authority, the kind of people who just want to be on the winning team, whatever the cost. That the world of Thunderdome is relatively civilized holds an uplifting message: civility will win in the end, because Mad Max will kill all the barbarians.

[mrda]

"An interesting thing is the Gayboy Berserkers, ex-policemen who joined up with the Lord Humungus. This can be seen as a comment on the kind of person who doesn't respect morality so much as authority, the kind of people who just want to be on the winning team, whatever the cost."

See the guys who worship legality and dismiss anarchy with the phrase: "Without restraints, there'd be murder and rape on a mass scale"? Most likely, they'd be the the fuckers behind all that shit if our ever loving administrators disappeared overnight.