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Wired has a gushing review of the Mad Max reboot:
Lightning rarely strikes twice, so going into Mad Max: Fury Road it's hard not to dwell on the words of Max Rockatansky himself: "You know hope is a mistake. If you can't fix what's broken, you'll go insane." The thing is, Max is wrong. Fury Road is everything fans could have hoped for.
It's also a very necessary movie right now. Fury Road is not only a reminder of what big, beautiful action movies can and should look like, it's a reminder that they can have a point. That spectacle can have substance. That, in a cinematic landscape where we're still fighting over the roles women get in movies, a new Ripley might just be waiting in the next trailer you see. (In Fury Road's case, that's Charlize Theron in a heart-stoppingly badass performance as Imperator Furiosa.)
Cars, guns, desert, and 1980's style post-apocalyptic fashion.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Friday May 15 2015, @01:54AM
One thing that caught my eye in the review is that "Eve Ensler served as a consultant on Fury Road to help the women who played Joe’s “wives” understand how their characters would deal with trauma".
Why would they employ a writer to do that instead of a psychologist or psychiatrist?
(Score: 2) by looorg on Friday May 15 2015, @03:28AM
This is so they portray the right kind of female angst and trauma and non of that white male trauma.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @06:54AM
From mainstream news to college classes through my decades of life I have seen nothing but a complete denial that not only does white male trauma not exist but that it can't exist. How can a member of the oppressive patriarchy have any negative experiences in life with so much privilege?
This even happens here at soylent. A man shows that he has a problem and then is called out for being weak, a man-child. He needs to grow up or man-up. No, the current culture is one in which men, especially white men, are the enemy and are to be shown as being defective humans in the blinding brilliance of, well, everyone else- except black men. They are sadly still getting the short end of the stick.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @07:05AM
Oh, bro! You poor thing! Come over here so your manly man bros can give you a hug! Were all those "girls" mean to you , again? It's OK, just let it go, you can cry when you amoung you man friends, Oh, and you shore have a purty mouth! Mind if we give you a male-bonding wedgie, all in good fun. before we drop yer drawers and . .. . You wanted the "short end" of the stick? Think again, girly boy! Would have been better for you if you had be a feminist, with some balls!
(Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @06:10PM
Point proven. Even acknowledging the existence of a possible problem a man can have will get you this:
It is even modded up. Disgusting as any hate speech.
(Score: 2, Informative) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday May 15 2015, @07:31PM
1 in 7 men have been victims of severe physical violence by an intimate partner [ncadv.org].
So, yes. Perhaps the girls were mean. And remember, if a man attempts self defense against a violent woman that takes any other form than curling into a ball and hoping for the best, he'll be lucky not to be hauled off to prison.
(Score: 5, Informative) by physicsmajor on Friday May 15 2015, @01:05PM
Psychiatrists are trained in the abstract and then see some minor first-world trauma in their practice. Almost none would have direct relatable experience with the kind of conditions and treatment portrayed.
Eve has literally made this her life's work. She's traveled the world interacting with traumatized women, focusing on the very worst conditions in the world. She's a subject matter expert. They went to the best person for the job. See the difference?
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Friday May 15 2015, @03:50PM
And does she understand that when 'trauma' is your everyday life, it ceases to be trauma?
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @06:26PM
And you think that Psychiatrists don't make their field their life's work? Please, you are a physics major. Have some common sense.
(Score: 2) by physicsmajor on Friday May 15 2015, @10:19PM
Please open the DSM V and take a look. That's what a Psychiatrist does - all of it.
Eve specializes in traumatized women.
If you can't spot the difference, I can't help you further.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @10:53PM
1. The DSM is being discontinued and has not been well thought of in decades. That is how far behind you are.
2. Can all of physics and everything a physicist do be summarized in the Oxford Dictionary of Physics? Of course not.
3. Eve is a writer, not a scientist. Her intellectual views on trauma are just as valid as R. L. Stein's
The absurdity of having to point this out further deepens your reputation for not having common sense.
(Score: 2) by physicsmajor on Saturday May 16 2015, @12:38AM
1. Cute misdirection with a logical fallacy. I'm well and fully aware of the limitations and issues with the DSM. This doesn't in any way undermine my point, which stands: Psychiatry is very broad, and those who practice it see the full range of human experience.
2. More logical fallacies, which actually serve to make my point. Yes, the field of psychiatry extends beyond the DSM... so it's actually bigger than I stated. What were you trying to say? I don't think it's helping.
3. Eve has far more real world experience with this specific sub-field than the vast majority of, and quite possibly any, psychiatrist(s). Consider that we're talking about a fictional script here, so again I'm having trouble seeing how consulting a writer with extensive and intimate experience isn't the blatantly, obviously correct call.
Anything else I can help you with?