I have been thinking about how my appreciation for cars in movies is even more ironic than my appreciation for guns in movies Like irl I just do not have a gun and don't interact with guns, which is different from my relationship with driving, a part of my life I actively hate
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This feeling born specifically of living in a country with these huge empty expanses all around you, like the US or Australia And the automobile as your weapon against the void, your power to strike back against how small it makes you feel
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An expanse that demands to be filled, a gap that demands to be crossed, a silence the demands to be filled with the sound of a roaring engine The miracle of technology to make a hundred miles into an hour's travel
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It's one of my most stereotypically masculine interests but yeah I really feel that in my gut It's why I'll always go to bat for Mad Max as a franchise (and I think of Fury Road as essentially the perfect action movie)
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