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chatham_t_riversThe Purge looks awesome.
The basic premise - America is prosperous--crime is at an all-time low and is enjoying a prosperous economic boom. The reason for this--for twelve hours, once a year, all crime is legal. For one night, police services are suspended, intending to give people a "release" from everything built up inside of them. (Yes, implausible and improbable, but shhh, shhh.)
The Purge follows one family for the night--Mom and Dad, brother and sister. Everything is going fine--until the son lets in a man that is crying and begging for help.
And all hell breaks loose.
I love love love LOVE speculative fiction. Not as much as I love certain other stories, but it's one of the reasons I love The Lathe of Heaven and The Hunger Games so much--speculative fiction treads the line between hard sci-fi and reality, tiptoes on the edge of just plausible. It takes place Twenty Minutes Into The Future instead of in some sort of cyberpunk, lightyears-away world. It treads that line because it forces us to really look at ourselves and think. ...Plus the line, "The Government thanks you for your participation," is chilling.
Hell, I want to write fanfic in this universe and the damn movie isn't even OUT yet.
I will be seeing this movie in theaters. And will hopefully not be as scarred by it as I was by Sinister.
The basic premise - America is prosperous--crime is at an all-time low and is enjoying a prosperous economic boom. The reason for this--for twelve hours, once a year, all crime is legal. For one night, police services are suspended, intending to give people a "release" from everything built up inside of them. (Yes, implausible and improbable, but shhh, shhh.)
The Purge follows one family for the night--Mom and Dad, brother and sister. Everything is going fine--until the son lets in a man that is crying and begging for help.
And all hell breaks loose.
I love love love LOVE speculative fiction. Not as much as I love certain other stories, but it's one of the reasons I love The Lathe of Heaven and The Hunger Games so much--speculative fiction treads the line between hard sci-fi and reality, tiptoes on the edge of just plausible. It takes place Twenty Minutes Into The Future instead of in some sort of cyberpunk, lightyears-away world. It treads that line because it forces us to really look at ourselves and think. ...Plus the line, "The Government thanks you for your participation," is chilling.
Hell, I want to write fanfic in this universe and the damn movie isn't even OUT yet.
I will be seeing this movie in theaters. And will hopefully not be as scarred by it as I was by Sinister.
