Okay so one of my favorite things about Fury Road was this recurring idea of older women protecting younger women. LIke Furiosa is probably in her late thirties, she’s lived in this world long enough to establish herself and her war rig, and I have to imagine that took a lot of cleverness and hard work, especially given her “remember me” line to Joe. She puts all that at risk to save a group of younger women, all appearing to be in their early to mid twenties. She’s in turn embraced and protected by a group of older, wiser women.
I guys it’s just really great to see not only ladies protecting ladies, but generations of ladies protecting ladies. So often in hollywood movies, women of different age groups are pitted against each other. It’s an evil step mother complex almost, older women being brutal to younger ones, feeling insecure and threatened with younger women taking their place in society while they fall back into irrelevance. But like, these women protect each other with their lives and I am just so here for that.
YES