The Purge takes place in 2022 btw
Conflicted ideas about the Purge franchise. The further the series goes on, the more ideologically sound the movies become – however, they also get progressively less and less enjoyable as just movies lol.
In The First Purge (I believe! Or maybe Election Year? Shit, too many movies) it’s revealed that when the Purge first started the murder rate didn’t go up at all during the event, people were just doing drugs and partying in public. Although sold as a means for “releasing the beast”, the alleged innate hungry murderous animal we’re supposed to believe we all harbor deep inside, the movie actually goes out of its way to counter that idea with another, that people are generally good. The capitalist class in the movie are revealed to be utilizing the Purge in service of their own 120 Days of Sodom shit, but more importantly, as a way to reduce the homeless population. When no one kills each other, they literally hire Ukrainian mercenaries to come in and start killing people, as well as mind-controlling some people through drug-induced psychosis.
I’m definitely not saying that the movies are based or even good, but I think there’s something to the franchise that gets left out of discussion around it from both people who like it and those who dislike it. I’d go so far as to say it’s a widespread misreading of the writers’ intents in making the movies – the idea that they’re these misanthropic, Hobbesian expressions of how violent humans must innately be. I personally think they’re more like bungled attempts at criticizing the worst aspects of capitalism with pretty unenjoyable slasher shit thrown on top.
Liberal media ultimately is gonna be liberal media. I like the occasional junk film like this, but you still see the liberal trappings in more “finer” movies.
Like I watched Gattaca, which is a very good movie. It’s about
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This dude in a world where people have jobs based on their genetic makeups. This sick dude wants to become an astronaut (the example they used here was kinda weird considering astronauts do get screened for health concerns) but he can’t because because of his DNA. There’s a caste system of valids and invalids, if you will. He does end up flying to outerspace, but only because he ended up using someone’s DNA…so by the end, it becomes an individualized story about overcoming obstacles and not why society is structured the way it is
yeah I remember liking Gattaca and taking away from it that eugenics = bad, but once you peel back a layer of faux-complexity you’re left with a totally hollow message from it and a lot of films like it.
The Purge is stupid.
If crime is legal for one night, then siezing the means of production should be done without a fight. House the homeless, feed the hungry, heal the sick, educate the illiterate, and purge the leeches.
If killing is legal for 1 night, literally the first thoughts I had are Gates, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Soros, royal families and co
I’ve never actually watched any of those purge movies, but I did see a trailer. Fairly sure it showed some rich assholes basically hole up in a bunker to party away in safety, while the proles are out there getting slaughtered.
However they would just fly their private jet into another country so literally only working class people are killing each other
Yeah but why do all that when instead you could kill random people on the street for some reason
