Reportedly a large inspiration for Mad Max, and I can see it, this is another strange down under apocalypse(?) movie.
The similarities are many. Both films are about strange societies and the laws and rules they have, and are NOT POST apocalypse!! It’s more like society is in a place of moral and economic decay, strange things happen that are out of the control of the main character, and shit goes sideways from there.
Arthur is a bad driver. He is vacationing with a towed trailer and goes off the road for some inexplicable reason and crashes. He ends up in Paris Australia where he discloses he also hit and killed(?) a old man driving once. The mayor or whatever, some guy, basically adopts him. Meanwhile, creepy cars are getting closer and closer to the city, crashing and acting all dangerous in what is likely more a metaphor for mental disease than a real threat.
The movie should be looked at that way because, I’m not trying to slam it here, but if you look at it as a real narrative it doesn’t make sense. Characters and circumstances and events are never explained. They seem to want the cars to be alive yet they do admit and confront the people driving the cars. The what is happening of it all doesn’t have explanation the old dude that adopts a grown man is never explained.
However if you look at it as a man with repeated trauma enters a period of rehab or a sort of experimental therapy, confront his fear and overcomes it, the film makes sense. Again I do enjoy this I just think it’s interesting that this and Mad Max get looked at as films where that certainly was not the original thing Max was a police officer, society was fractured but intact. You’re telling me police exist in a world with a bullet farm and Immortan Joe?
Cars here is a really strange and slightly inexplicable film that is slightly long and tedious with a few absolutely thrilling sequences. I give it a 2.5
Oh and I’m traveling in New Zealand for a month entries will be minimal
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