The Purge (2013)

2024-08-09

It’s dystopian future month all August and some futures seem a little too close for comfort. This movie is about the year 2022. It came out in 2013. Now it’s 2024 and there’s no day devoted to mass killing, yet, but the undercurrent of violent obsession in our society combined with our propagandized fear of the impoverished makes this movie concept not at all hard to grasp. James DeMonaco’s dystopian hit “The Purge” from 2013, starring Ethan Hawke and Lena Heady, became a franchise darling. It’s easy to ponder what you would do in a society that allows mass killings and various crimes to go unimpeded for 12 hours one day a year. The New Founding Fathers have “fixed” the country and have allowed the people to blow off some steam. The young Republicans take to the streets to kill the most vulnerable. The concerned Democrats take shelter in their tacky homes and watch people die on their security cameras. Blue flowers on their patios to signify that they support the Purge and the country itself in the hopes that it deters them from being targets. Can this top security system salesman protect his family during the Purge from his daughter’s shitty boyfriend, his son’s soft heart and the Temu version of Patrick Bateman? Even if you survive, you’ll have to do it all again next year.

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