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ARTX-033 · acquired 2015 · running time 120m
George Miller · 2015

Mad Max: Fury Road

We are not things.

Provisional dossier. Metrics derived from the systematic pipeline (method v1.1-metric-fix); curatorial reading pending. The shape below is what the open record has produced so far — read it as a draft, not a verdict.

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The Reading

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Consensus
Extreme96

Resolved — wide, durable agreement across critic and audience record.

Friction
Subdued08

Quiet — the interpretive gap has closed or never opened.

Obsession
Extreme92

Consumed — being lived with over time, not filed away.

Residual Haunting
Present35

Occasional — some residual presence reported, but not systematic.

Symbolic Density
Elevated74

Layered — sustained interpretive activity; the film is being decoded.

Cult Formation
Present45

Emerging — pockets of strong attachment, but no unified identity.

Formal Risk
Extreme86

Radical — the work refused every known shape and chose another.

Emotional Voltage
Extreme97

Extreme — the work moves bodies; crying, panic, awe, nausea in the record.

Accessibility
Extreme89

Universal — no glossary required; the work provides its own entry.

Reach
Present32

Spreading — occasional reference outside film culture; some imagery in wider circulation.

Progeny
Subdued24

Terminal — no documented lineage; no works cite it as formative.

Cultural Arc
Present30

Revised — time has shifted the reading somewhat; the initial verdict has softened or hardened.

Transgression
Subdued21

Safe — the work's content operates well within accepted social limits.

Cultural Afterlife

2015 → 2026
2015
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2015 · release
Mad Max: Fury Road released.
release / rediscovery / criterion
rejection / meme / wound
academic adoption

Discourse Factions

analytical
100%

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) directed by George Miller. Curated baseline artifact for metric calibration and systematic scoring initialization.

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