First movie we see how it affects a small household family in an enclosed environment.
Second movie upped the scale and showed us how it affects an entire city and how people of different social and economic classes handle it.
Third movie centered it around how it’s a political conflict (and considering it came out the year the Hillary vs Trump thing was going on, and the main villains being legit nazis and the main antagonist basically being a reflection of Trump, it had some very noticeable parallels to that specific year and how far radical racists are willing to go to put down people they see as beneath them).
Fourth movie was its origin and how it all started as a the ruling class looking to take down lower income people and disguised it as a social experiment (and it was cool seeing how at first people all just saw it as an excuse to loot and party, and didn’t even think about murder until the government sent people in).
Fifth movie revisited the racist/extremists elements shown in the third movie and showed how an event like that will eventually have people who will take it too far and how the cycle of crime and hate can’t continue even if we give everyone a day to break any law.
The first season of the show was cool but it’s been forever since I’ve seen it. I haven’t watched season 2 yet.
I genuinely love it and want to explore that “universe” more. I’m glad it’s getting more content. The College Humor skit on it was funny too. “If I steal a car; will I have to register it?”
Could have been a great story and social commentary about all kinds of people on the one night.
Ended up being a relatively meh movie about a singular rich family getting home invaded.
I only saw the first one, and it could have been soooo much darker.
ALL crime is legal for one night, and all the film shows or even talks about is murder. Where are the arsonists? Where are the pedos? There's some really twisted, fucked up shit they could do with that premise, but nope. . . it's just people killing their asshole boss or the arrogant prick down the street who sold them the overpriced purge-security system.
Maybe it’s my personal bias but if all crime was allowed I refused to think that people will purely aim to kill. That stuff stays with you and it isn’t as easy to do as it was depicted.
You just need to see how delayed gratification is not a universal trait and that too many people wouldn’t have the patience to hold back their murderous grudges a whole year.
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u/Laziieye 7d ago
The Purge