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I liked how it wasn't explained because the goal is to make you think about those questions. In a post apocalyptic wasteland where valuable resources are scatte
by stnmtn 2y ago
I liked how it wasn't explained because the goal is to make you think about those questions. In a post apocalyptic wasteland where valuable resources are scattered far away in an endless desert, wouldn't cars become an almost mythical and religious item? Without the Chrome Cars, everyone would die as they would be unable to travel and get food/water/etc. So is it any surprise that after generations of living like that, they would worship chrome much in the same way primitive cultures worship the sun/rain/water?
- adrianN 2y agoI don't think the Mad Max world building is sufficiently deep to stand up to scrutiny. For example, cars are extremely dependent on high industry. Without an advanced chemical industry cars are impossible to build. There is no way cars would be around long in a post apocalyptic wasteland of endless desert.
- stnmtn 2y agoAll the cars are cars that they are maintaining, they have not built any cars from scratch. They find pieces of metal laying about and can put that on cars.
- ant6n 2y agoThere weren’t generations between the collapse and the film. Style of the old characters may have started off in “normal” civilization. Given how many cars there are today, how the cars in mad Max tend to be simpler/older cars and how everything is Frankensteined together, the technology seems plausible. Compare to Cuba, where people are still driving around in 60 year old classic American cars. Also consider how many people live now and their resources and assets, compared to the world of mad Max, where perhaps 1% of the humans remain. It implies a lot of junk.
- lupire 2y agoWhat? Anyone can make a basic car in a workshop with metalworking tools. Henry Ford made cars. The only advanced chemicals you need are fuel to burn.
- adrianN 2y agoTry making a rubber wheel with a lubricated ball bearing in your home workshop.