I picked Angharad. She just didn't deserve to die after all that fight, and I know she'd made plans for the future that would have changed the world.
Every time I watch MMFR, I hold my breath a little bit hoping Angaharad will survive just this once. Obviously, it's silly. I love how many people recognize her in this poll! @evilasiangenius says, "the leader of the revolution should have had the chance to build that new world that was only dream of" and it felt so good to see those words. It's so great to see Angharad recognized so fully. I think a casual viewer *could* see Furiosa as the leader, but she wasn't. She was the vehicle, The War Rig personified.
And in the end, that's actually why I think, narratively, that she's perhaps one of the most important people to die. The rest of my revolutionaries - at the very least Capable and Cheedo - I felt were on this ride holding onto Angharad's coat tails. Even Furiosa was until that point in it out of a sense of vengeance, not community or revolution.
Angharad's passing forces them all to find their own reasons for what they were doing. I think it also forces them to see the courage it takes in reaching for a new world, one that isn't just like the last but under a new leader.
Could these things have all happened if she lives? Absolutely! But it makes space for it to happen in the few hours we get in the movie. Between that and the added commentary the movie is making about sexual violence, it's the one death that I don't think could have been substituted for anyone else barring Nux. What it does to the narrative is so beautiful.
AND YET!!
I wish she could have lived.
I wish she could have seen Dag adopt so fully into the Vulvalini's culture.
I wish she could have seen Furiosa's desperation to save Toast.
I wish she could have seen Capable lead, to know what it is to find a mind in pain and hold out hope and see it light someone up from the inside.
I wish she could have seen Cheedo's bravery, in pretending to go back only to hold out a hand to the woman who's hellbent on changing her world, all so they could make a new one.
I wish she could have seen The Mother's, unprompted, out of a need to stop suffering, open the floodgates and sustain The Wretched.
I wish I could have seen her reaching into the crowds as they rose up to the Citadel and pulled up the hurt and lost and desperate with the promise of food and shelter and water.
If anyone deserved that, it was Angharad. And oh, how it hurts that she died before she could see all of what her spark ignited.
