diff --git a/content/posts/reviews/movies/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga/index.md b/content/posts/reviews/movies/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga/index.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..957f2f67 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/reviews/movies/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +title: "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" +type: review +date: 2024-06-16T10:44:15.476Z +emoji: 💀 +topics: +- Reflections +summary: Max barely features, but it's gloriously mad. Explosions and brutality galore, but a moving central plot that made me stay for the story. +syndications: +--- + +{{< film "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" "2024" "https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/786892-furiosa-a-mad-max-saga" "poster.webp" >}} + +I really enjoyed this film! It is _a lot_ of explosions and brutality, but it was continually compelling — even as I questioned why I was so invested. At 2h20m it definitely made me feel my sleepy age (I saw it yesterday evening, on my 39th birthday, and I was squinting and yawning by the end!) but I felt more impressed that a relatively slow paced film gripped me for so long. + +It's a proper odyssey, with poor Furiosa only wanting to get home; but the trials she faces grow organically out of the plot and the universe, and give Furiosa a depth I didn't expect from a character/actor who's almost entirely expressionless through the film. + +This entry in the Mad Max continuum (though I've only watched [the first](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9659-mad-max), and [Fury Road](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/76341-mad-max-fury-road)) steers away from exploring the whats and whys of the apocalyptic world they live in, tempting though I'm sure it was in a 2024 that has _so many_ parallels, and instead lets us draw our own conclusions. The men in power who lie and rabble-rouse to get the power they desire, just so they can watch the world burn (again); how much we all embrace making ourselves vulnerable for the hope of human connection; the power dynamics and game theory in a world where two thirds of what you need is only necessary because of collective attitudes. + +I'm certain I'll watch this again—and as a stand-alone film—which, for a long and relatively simple plot, is something very uncommon for me. I hope you enjoy it too! diff --git a/content/posts/reviews/movies/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga/poster.webp b/content/posts/reviews/movies/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga/poster.webp new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1b7866d1 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/posts/reviews/movies/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga/poster.webp differ diff --git a/layouts/partials/post-previews.html b/layouts/partials/post-previews.html index e969e0dd..3b9c9e3d 100644 --- a/layouts/partials/post-previews.html +++ b/layouts/partials/post-previews.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ {{ partial "intro.html" }}
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    -{{ .Page.Store.Set "hasSpoilers" true }} +{{- .Page.Store.Set "hasSpoilers" true -}} diff --git a/todo.md b/todo.md index 4de82728..929b8293 100644 --- a/todo.md +++ b/todo.md @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Things I might work on within my personal blog's software. - [ ] When posted via Echofeed: They include the "in reply to" initial stuff; this is too cumbersome - [ ] When posted via Echofeed: They should probably be "Quiet public", or ideally posted as replies to a fedi post, if there's one referenced in the source as a syncidcation - [ ] They get posted on the homepage, when they shouldn't +- [ ] Spoiler open styling has regressed! ### Ideas @@ -59,3 +60,4 @@ Things I might work on within my personal blog's software. - [x] Record new webmentions on publish - Done via EchoFeed! - [x] Videos in "photos" don't have a thumbnail, and don't work in the list. +- [x] Reviews don't appear on homepage?