Miller’s explanation helps to make sense out of one of the murkier corners of his Mad Max films—why it’s often unclear exactly when the hero’s story leaves the dystopian world for pure post-apocalypse.
We tend to think of all the Max films as post-apocalyptic, but that’s really not the case. In the near-future setting of the first movie, it’s made clear that society is crumbling, but there are still police, politicians, and businesses.
In 1981’s The Road Warrior, the world has grown much darker and more desperate, but while most watch the film assuming it takes place after a nuclear apocalypse, nuclear exchange is never mentioned.
The prologue of the second Mad Max film mentions horrible military conflicts and destructive uprisings, but never specifically says anything about a nuclear war.
And while the narrator calls the land Max travels in a “wasteland,” we see trees, grass, and other vegetation. It’s sparse, but it’s there. Australia is not yet the huge, barren desert it becomes in later movies.
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