Furiosa always seemed to me like someone who spent years gaining Joe's trust and planning her escape, and that is the broad stroke of this movie, but it's so much more interesting and intricate than that. This is an epic that spans fifteen years and even though you know where it ends up there's so much to tell. It gives more depth to the journey of her and Max trusting each other, knowing that the first person to ever give her a chance and treat her like a person was a Max type. You get to see why the Gastown/Citadel/Bullet Farm alliance is so strong because they all had a common enemy in Dementus. You get to see, from Furiosa's point of view, how men are killing the world. Chris Hemsworth, by the way, having the time of his life. Both him and Anya giving very interesting performances. Anya not showing up until an hour into the movie and then an almost nonverbal performance. It's the kind of role that might scare away a less interesting actor because so much of it has to be internal. Dementus is a great foil for Furiosa, both lost their families to the wasteland and Dementus chooses to deteriorate the world for it and Furiosa has hope that she can still make something of it. He lost his children, she lost her mother, so it's like he lost his future and she lost her past. Hemsworth can't even keep Gastown functional because he can't see past tomorrow, he has nothing left and can only entertain himself day to day. Furiosa has nothing after she escapes the wife vault and she still forges a life for herself. I honestly loved that the climax of this movie, the prequel to the most furious action movie of the 2010s, is these two angrily sharing philosophy in the desert. I was hooked that whole conversation, it's so hard to hate stupid charming Hemsworth. But Furiosa strips him of everything; his power, his lieutenants, his cars, and turns him into the living embodiment of a person being crushed by hope and the planet he tried to kill in his grief. Also have to shoutout how they represented the "cars are religion" lore. I loved how when she first meets Dementus he's being explained the torque and horsepower of his carriagecycle by the historian. It feels like an almost religious ritual to sit down and learn about engines every day, not to mention the whole War Rig building workshop they have. You can feel Miller has so much to show us in this insane post apocalypse genre he basically invented, even after 40 years and 5 movies.