mad max: fury road

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392190

mad max is pretty much just a bunch of action that does not make a whole lot of sense.  that is pretty normal for a modern film, though.  the part that is driving me nuts is that i just cannot figure out the symbolism in this piece of shit.  you can tell it is there--just look at the use of colours, the striking disfigurements, and the irrational behaviors--but what does it mean?  what thread can we follow to piece it together?

for example, the scene with the old mothers and the new mothers has a dark bluish cast.  notably, when they show the lovers, they are lit by a small lantern that changes the lighting to a thick yellowish cast before we go back to the dark blue for the part where max declares he will split from the group.  this scene is followed by one where the lighting is an oversaturated yellow--max has split from the group, but then decides to rejoin them.  so ok, why did the lighting change?  are they reversing the usual meaning of blue and yellow in recognition of the desert-like landscape that covers much of this post-apocalyptic world?  a soothing blue as a counterpoint to an oppressive yellow?  but then why light the lovers in yellow?  fuck if i know.  maybe it was just night time.

a friend of mine told me that there was probably no symbolism.  but i have to believe that somebody was trying to do *something*.  otherwise, we are talking about a movie that is just a long string of things that are just stupidly wrong, such as a guy being drained of blood for twice as long as it should take to kill him while he is strapped to the front of a speeding car with no protective gear, then flopped around on the back of the car while it speeds through an impossibly localized storm system until the car crashes, and he not only survives this, but he wakes up before the other guy does and carries him and a heavy car door for a mile through the desert.  then has a fight with a bunch of people who are pretty well rested and wins.

mad max: fury road gets one universal donor.  if i judge it purely on its merits as an action movie, then it instead gets one guitar solo.

by the way, the part about the universal donor is surely symbolism.  everywhere max goes, he has to set things aright.  am i right or am i right?  answer: yes.