Reductionist Beliefs In The Film Mad Max: Fury Road

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To begin, the film Mad Max: Fury Road portrays the theme of objectification of humans through the religious theories of reductionist belief. The reductionist approach of belief states that belief are meaningless and supernatural beings and objects are nothing more than human constructs. First, Sigmund Freud’s belief theory states that belief in god is a result of a young boy’s relationship with his father and that god is like a father figure. Similarly, in the film, the war boys consider Immortan Joe as their god and surrogate father. As the War boys, all work for Joe with utmost loyalty and are also willing to die for him. Also, just a look from joe can get Nux the war boy excited and happy. All the War boys are slowly dying and have already