With all this in mind, it’s definitely worth giving Break Originals’ excellent Mad Max: Black Friday trailer a look.
Of course, Black Friday’s long since stopped being just the day after Thanksgiving (running for multiple weeks at some outlets), but the ethos – big discounts on everything – remains the same.
The turkey’s been picked bare, all angry political debates with distant family members moved on from in a hungover haze, and now it’s time to move on and get ready for Christmas, starting with Black Friday.
It’s like something out of a dystopian sci-fi movie, making George Romero’s spearing of commercial culture in Dawn of the Dead look old-hat – the violence and hollowness of it is more like Soylent Green or Mad Max.