Australian New Wave II

Nope nope nope. I liked Mad Max for its Australian New Wave-ness and for nothing else. I fail to understand George Miller's work. It doesn't seem the least bit cool to me, even though it's attempting to project coolness and masculinity throughout. And the villains – as in all of his films – are dangerous and violent, of course, but also laughable and stupid. The main guy in this one (his name is Toecutter) has one eyebrow shaved off and is constantly doing little kindergarten gymnastics as if he never graduated from tumbling. I think the thing that is especially distasteful about this film is its reliance on disability imagery as grotesquerie for its ideas of horror. I am going to keep watching more Australian New Wave, because I'm interested in the movement now, but George Miller is not my style. (I didn't care for Mad Max: Fury Road either.)