Fans of ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ feel depressed, suicidal at not being able to live a violent post-apocalyptic life

George Miller’s completely immersive spectacle ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ may have been a little too real for some fans who say they have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film because they long to enjoy the beautiful, gory utopia of the film’s post-apocalyptic world.

On the fan forum site “Fury Forums,” a topic thread entitled “Ways to cope with the depression that Fury Road isn’t real,” has received more than 1,000 posts from people depressed that they aren’t driving armored war machines. The topic became so popular last month that forum administrator Philippe Yorkin had to create a second thread so people could continue to post their confused feelings about the movie.

“I wasn’t depressed myself. In fact the movie made me happy,” Yorkin said. “But I can understand why it made people depressed. Fury Road showed us things we don’t have in real life, like...