[EveningStar]

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[AzSteven]

I wonder if everyone runs around screaming ‘Festival! Festival!’ as they do their deeds? Star Trek did this exact plot line in 1967. Ah well - originality is overrated.

[sam_whiskey]

I didn’t pick up on the “thinly veiled” commentary against the NRA. If these people didn’t own guns their goose would be cooked...

[chae]

No it doesnt!!! Did you watch it at all? For starters, the neighbors are jealous as hell because Ethan Hawke is successful. The last 10 or so minutes are an indictment of socialism! That plastic looking blonde saying “you are too successful, you made too much money, for that you must die” and how they were willing to murder the wife and kids and they kept saying “you must sacrifice your life for the good of society”.

[wideawake]

"Their news was just about us because they had nothing to report. Not much crime there. I was seeing this pattern--outside of our country, they just don’t have the relationship with violence that we have," he said.

Or, maybe, there is less legal liability or moral ambiguity about reporting on local French crime and Canadian crime.

You don't remember the car barbecues, or the Rock Machine?

[SSS Two]

I haven’t seen the movie, but I understand that the premise is there is one night a year reserved for lawlessness. I don’t own a gun, but under those circumstances I would. I’m not sure “The Purge” is an effective argument against the NRA. The NRA supports the rights of individuals to protect themselves — particularly when the civil authorities won’t do the job.

[factoryrat]

I think that the plot of this movie was to provoke a specific response, to sort of ferret out would be vigilante types. I'm sure that the CIA and NSA types will be poring over credit card records of movie-goers to see just who exactly were attracted to watch just such a movie and plot.

Just because you are paranoid, doesn't mean that they are not out to get you!

You are much more likely to die at the hands of a government official, than you are of dying by accident or natural causes.

The soviets could only dream of the level of control that the USfedgovmonster has over its subjects, and yet, the sheep are perfectly willing to lead to slaughter for for free government handouts and influence.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I noticed one element that the critics might have missed. At least some of the violent attackers in the movie wear masks that seem to be taken from the Guy Fawkes masks used in the movie V for Vendetta, but more importantly, by the computer hacker group Anonymous.

This is important, because if anything, Anonymous stands for a “more chaotic libertarianism”. Many of them seem to want a minimalist government, even less of a government than conservatives favor.

This being said, what the film is saying is that, “Only liberal Democrats can be trusted. Anyone else in power will lead to savagery.”

[Vince Ferrer]

One of the ways this new political movement has brought on such an idyllic society is to allow one night a year when any and all violence, even murder, is legal. Citizens are allowed to "purge" their basest tendencies during that one lawless night.

Detroit had Devil's night, and it didn't work for them.