Film language: Cinematography

The opening scene of Mad Max first starts with an establishing shot of the whole desert that the movie is situated in. We also see a smashed up muscle car and a dark figure standing next to it. The camera is panning downwards so the focus is on the muscle car and the character that we've been shown. As we go lower down, we hit a close up on a rock and a lizard starts making movements towards the main focus. The lizard's movement indicates that the car and the character are extra terrestrial to the place they are in. We then get a close up of the car starting to accelerate and an action/tracking shot of the car going off the cliff. There is another establishing shot of the muscle car driving away from motorcyclists and other vehicles. The muscle car then gets knocked over and we see a medium close up of the character that was saw in the beginning and we automatically feel sympathetic towards him because he was ganged up upon and he is clearly struggling. The next scene is the same character being tied up and around 10 different characters all around him tattooing his back for some peculiar reason. The close up on his face makes the audience feel even more sympathetic towards him because we didn't see why he's being held in an unjust manner and we as the audience automatically believe that that is very unfair. An extreme close up of the tattoos being done on his back is then shown and the reason for that is so us, the audience, read and see in detail what's being done to his body. A lot more sympathy is shown here by us because tattoos are very painful to be done and it's against his will. Another extreme close up of a very hot metal rod with the symbol of what we assume is their gang symbol which is going to be put on his skin to make a mark of some sort. Another set of tracking and action shots are on display as the main character starts to resist and starts showing signs of aggression and starts wrestling all the people holding him hostage and as soon as he does, he makes a run to escape from the place he is. We then see the characters holding him hostage in much more detail as there is light coming down and the camera is moving very quickly which suits the scene because its an escape scene and quick camera movements is key to make it look very dramatic. After the main character is pushed into a little pool of water, he starts hallucinating and seeing this strange looking girl who seems to be talking to him. The extreme close up to her face gives the audience a sense of thrill and fear because she doesn't seem happy and she's very angry at our character. Our main character then starts to wrestle the weird looking people again and we automatically side with him because we want him to escape from this dreadful looking place. He then arrives to the outdoors and we see his facial expression as he's very surprised and then the camera pans to the other side and we see what he's looking at. We finally have a sense of relief as he's finally escaped from the torturous conditions.