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Mad Max as Social Criticism |
 | | Our world (or the exaggerated version of our world symbolized by the movie) is a place of commerce, lacking in true spirit, in which the only spiritual value we have left is one in which we have come to believe that consumerism and machines will lift us into a paradise of abundance. |
 | | In addition to criticizing our present-day mythology, the movie also depicts another aspect of society, by depicting Bartertown as a class society with stark contrasts when it comes to power and privilege, between the ruler, her soldiers and assistants, the common people and the slaves in Underworld. |
 | | Max's role, as social and political revolutionary, is to begin the process of destroying this fragmented existence and making it whole. |
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