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Did anyone else feel bad for Aunty Entity? (spoilers)

posted 15 years ago by invisigothx11
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Sure, she was despotic, but she really did something great. There was a nuclear apocalypse, and all the survivors were left with was chaos, broken technology, and violent marauders in a dog-eat-dog world. You saw how in Mad Max 2 it was basically survival of the fittest.

But Aunty Entity established a freakin CITY in the middle of the dessert. She established law and orde and an economic system again, and got the town powered on new technology. Sure the laws were harsh and sometimes capricious, but people didn't just go around killing people anymore. And if they didn't break the laws (like Pig Killer), it seems like her citizens were pretty content and happy. She basically restarted society.

I thought it was reasonable that she wanted to take Blaster out. Maybe it was wrong to kill a tard, but Master Blaster was really capricious and unreasonable. The midget was shutting off electricity whenever he felt like it, and basically holding the entire city hostage to his whims because only he knew how to work the technology.

So in the end, when Max and the kids break in and destroy the entire city (probably causing some deaths of innocent citizens), I didn't see the point. Aunty Entity wasn't perfect, but she was providing a valuable service to the survivors of an apocalypse--a place to live, with electricity, food, a market, entertainment... a new society. And Max and his friends destroyed it for everyone.

Anyway, why were they going into Bartertown anyway?

[–] cassmi87 12 years ago

"But Aunty Entity established a freakin CITY in the middle of the dessert"

Was it ice-cream or a pudding of some kind? I'm curious because I've never heard of someone establishing a city in the middle of a "dessert" ;)

[–] urrutiap 12 years ago

Yeah Aunty may have had alot of oil and gas/methane because of the pigs and lighting but if Lord Humongus was still alive you know he and Wez would have raped and pillaged everything in Bartertown

[–] AfroGeek 12 years ago

The final scene shows that she's not a villain. She's attempting to bring order to the wastelands. I think the entire theme of BT is that order is now being restored in a post-apocalyptic world. The movie has a great optimistic ending. After rewatching this weekend, I don't think I want another sequel; at least by Hollywood's current standards for guy movies.

Amy: I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!

[–] jefgg 11 years ago

I felt badly for Tina when she was married to Ike Turner.

[–] Sirus_51 11 years ago

Her line 'Ain't we a pair ' was a nod to how both she and Max where a cosmic joke.

Two beings with a will, and ability to change the landscape, the wastelands.

Unique.

However fate made them into a collosion course with one another.

I read the novel once and wouldn't mind buying it if I could find it, in it Aunty looked forward to the challenge of rebuilding Barter town. Her confrontation with Max and the challenges ahead of her renewed a fire she did not know was missing.

As for Max, he was a survivor, an avatar of chaos. Where he walked things changed. And in the end the thought of the Raggady man out in the wastes, the cop who thought himself a crook. A bonafide hero dispite himself, well in the nights ahead that brought a genuine smile to her face due to the funny world they lived in.

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