this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2024
32 points (100.0% liked)
chapotraphouse
13528 readers
1322 users here now
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer
Gossip posts go in c/gossip. Don't post low-hanging fruit here after it gets removed from c/gossip
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Its set during the pre-apocalypse. The decline is starting, and eventually it leads to a nuclear exchange.
I'm curious how much of that was intentional. I think Miller just wanted to make a cool action movie, and the whole idea it was the apocalypse came while he was working on 2. When I watch the first one it just feel like it was an exaggeration of what life in rural Australia was like in the 70s, in that everything was run down, cops were more blatantly psycho than they are now, and gangs could get away with some crazy BS. Less like there is an actual looming apocalypse.
If you listen to the police radio in the background of several scenes its implied that things are in rapid decline and that the police are losing territorial control.
Yeah, so rural Australia in the 70s