Mad Max and Redemption

Furiosa, the movie's other protagonist, was taken from her country at a young age. Her country is only remembered as "Green Place", an edenic sanctuary where you can live in peace and share with others. She was taken into the Citadel, forced into service toward an unholy tyrant, to whom she and thousands of others are mere subjects.

She leads a small group of girls to run away from their living hell. The other girls, Furiosa says, are in search of hope. Furiosa says she's in search of "redemption". For her, redemption is a place where she was taken, the place of her childhood. Only it doesn't exist anymore.

When the group finds it's been ruined by the same thing that's "killed the world", they despair for a while, and would have set out even further east, if Max hadn't convinced them otherwise. He told them they can find their Green Place back at the Citadel, the place that's within control of the angry Molech.

Ultimately, they find both redemption and hope by reclaiming the Citadel. Even though they'll never regain their innocence, they can regain their dignity. They'll never go back to Eden, but they can rebuild Jerusalem.

There are lots of other themes in this movie, about motherhood and life but I guess this stuck to me first, considering I'm a pretty religious guy. 

Personal Notes

• I have dysthymia. 
• I love my three year old nephew Nathan. 
• I have another nephew on the way. 
• His name is Micah.  

Am I then really that which other men tell of?
Or am I only what I myself know of myself?
Restless and longing and sick, like a bird in a cage,
Struggling for breath, as though hands were compressing my throat,
Yearning for colors, for flowers, for the voices of birds,
Thirsting for words of kindness, for neighborliness,
Tossing in expectations of great events,
Powerlessly trembling for friends at an infinite distance,
Weary and empty at praying, at thinking, at making,
Faint, and ready to say farewell to it all. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Poems from Prison