Theology of the body shop - Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Animation director Timothy Reckart (The Star) joins Criteria to discuss his theory that the greatest action movie of recent years, Mad Max: Fury Road, is best viewed in light of Pope St. John Paul II's theology of the body.

Themes of the discussion include:

• The film's depiction of a society based on use of persons as objects
• How the story reverses the very mechanisms of that use and domination and transforms them into means of self-giving love
• Storytelling through action rather than dialogue
• How this apparently feminist film complicates an ideological reading
• Complementarity rather than enmity between the sexes

Note: This discussion contains adult themes.

Music is The Duskwhales, “Take It Back”, used with permission. https://theduskwhales.bandcamp.com

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