In other respects, too, the Citadel cult suggests radical Islamism, especially its blend of fanatical religious fervor and nihilistic violence, with ignorant, brainwashed would-be martyrs ready to kill and die to be welcomed into paradise (here Valhalla) as well as its tyrannical social control and the crushing ignorance of its adherents, whom we discover can be quite human when separated from the system that formed them. Most obviously, the sexual enslavement of women by the monstrous leader of the cultish horde of the Citadel resonates with the sex slavery practices of the Islamic State newly highlighted in yesterday’s New York Times story by Rukmini Callimachi. In another movie, a line like “We are not things” could be a platitude, but in the context of vividly imagined atrocities with unnerving echoes of recent headlines, this simple affirmation is fraught with topical power that has only grown in the months since the film’s theatrical debut.

The film depicts human bodies branded and subjected to the utilitarian, ruthlessly efficient production methods of industrial farming, with blood and mother’s milk harvested and women reduced to breeding stock.

“We are not things” is the defiant reproach to a horrific totalitarian regime that reduces people to commodities in George Miller’s astonishing, visionary Mad Max: Fury Road. “We are not things”: Mad Max: Fury Road and commodifying human life SDG Original source: Crux

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