We've seen strong women who can fight, but they're usually young 20-somethings. Now that is something I have never seen in a movie, I'm not sure if it's ever been featured in a movie. In the last third when our heroes team up with the women from Furiosa's home, these women are shooting and fighting just as well as anyone during that last battle. There's a good chunk of women that are probably over 40. Getting back to the mostly female cast of badasses, there was something I realized on the drive home about them. All we really learn throughout the film is that she was taken as a child over 7,000 days ago, and that's it! We know she has some kind of connection with the main bad guy, given what her final words to him were, but we never find out that connection was. I also liked how we never really got into her backstory. She never once looked like she was trying too hard (as some actors do when they're attempting to look tough, especially when they're going against type). And she's such a great actor that that kind of badassery looks completely natural and in no way forced. Like everyone's been saying this summer, Charlize Theron is a friggin' badass.
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Something I loved about this movie was that the majority of the main characters were women. I highly recommend this to any horror movie buff! I don't want to spoil anything, so there's not much to say except: "Ba-BA Dook! Dook! Dook!" *shudder* When you loose someone that close to you, not a day goes by that you won't think about them and miss them, and some days are better than others, but you find a way to live with it. She even "feeds it" once a day, which I feel is also true when you deal with a loss. She starts by denying the Babadook is even real, and she becomes angry, depressed and bargains (not necessarily in the correct order) before finally accepting it. Though I don't know how anyone could push it away for seven years like she did.Īmelia even seems to go through the 5 stages of grief over the course of the film. If you just ignore it and push it away, one day you will hit a breaking point. And in the book, it says that the more you ignore The Babadook, the stronger he gets, and I believe that's true of grief. She refuses to talk about her husband, locks all of his possessions away in the basement and won't even celebrate Samuel's birthday on the actual day. Amelia is a character who is both ignoring and overcome by her grief at the same time. Now, everyone who has written a review for this already has probably pointed out that "Mister Babadook" is a metaphor for grief and I would have to agree. Dismissive at first, Amelia begins to notice some strange things happening around her home and starts to wonder if he is real, or if she's just going crazy. But as the story goes on, it becomes clear that this is not a child-friendly book and Samuel becomes insistent that the Babadook is real. One night, he finds a new book on his shelf titled "Mister Babadook" and asks his mom to read it. Samuel is a difficult child, obsessed with monsters and terrified that one is going to get him, so he creates makeshift weapons to protect himself and his mother.
So her son, Samuel, was born on the same day that her husband died, and Amelia still hasn't gotten past her grief. Almost seven years prior, Amelia (played by the fantastic Essie Davis) and her husband got into a car accident on the way to the hospital while she was in labor, causing the death of her husband. Charlize Theron being the real the star of the film, with the titular character really only acting as her support.But let's start at the beginning, shall we? The film centers around a mother and her six year old son, and their life is not going well, to say the least. The movie also features some surprisingly good performances. You want to believe the fiction because of the quality of the production. This is only really possible because the action, filmography, set choices and music are so brilliant you cannot help but believe the insanity that plays out before you. The movie keeps a relentless action pace that makes all of the absurdity seem so completely ordinary, which might be the real magic of this movie. Miller created a fantasy world where men playing flame throwing guitars and leaping through high speed chases on pull-vaults seems like a typical milk run. What is perhaps the most enthralling part of the film is the absolutely absurd story and world building. The action sequences are mesmerizing and the work of a true master craftsman in action.
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The film is a gripping full adrenaline race across the desert of a post-apocalyptic future. George Miller elevates action and violence to a true art form in this remake of a classic.