Color me surprised. While the last one was a brainless slasher with a stupid premise, it sounds like the sequel somehow managed to turn that on its head into a decent action movie with some reasonably intelligent political commentary. Granted, it's still a tad ridiculous how over-the-top it is, but hey, Hollywood rarely knows how to do anything but go larger-than-life.
Only trouble is, nobody's going to watch it, because the first one
sucked. They would have been better off distancing themselves as far from this whole, "The Purge" buzz word as possible.
SNCommand said:
Anyone else noticing the pattern about rich vs poor movies having ridiculous settings that defy logic?
It's probably because American wealth disparity [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_United_States] is bad enough right now that it's relevant to the average movie goers interests.
The Purge is a tad over-the-top in that it asserts that the upper crust are so twisted by their own money and power that they regard the rest of America as playthings to exploit simply because they're so depraved that they have to go that far to... I don't know, become
more depraved? Seems like a pretty maladaptive activity any way you look at it. Oh, and "population control," because those bothersome low-income people who voted in favor of empowering you and buy your products to make you richer are
so problematic they need to be culled. I'm pretty sure real life examples of such a morally bankrupt moron are rare in any wealth bracket. (I wish I could say nobody could be that demented, but hey, it's a big world, and I'm on the Internet.)
From the sounds of things, this movie also turns a mirror on the low-income twits who would allow lip service to patriotism to empower those kinds of people. This kind of person is more common in real life, but I hesitate to say that even they would be so foolish as to vote in favor of "The Purge" on account of how it's sort of hard for anyone to swallow that mass murder on the streets is patriotic. I think the first couple of times you'd have to hose the entrails of your fellow American off the daily commute, it would evoke enough outrage that you'd be up in arms.
It's probably a fair assertion that if The Purge were real, people would be emigrating to Mexico instead of the other way around.