The Purge (2013)
It’s dystopian future month all August and some futures seem a little too close for comfort. This movie is about the year 2022. It came out in 2013. Now it’s 2024 and there’s no day devoted to mass killing, yet, but the undercurrent of violent obsession in our society combined with our propagandized fear of the impoverished makes this movie concept not at all hard to grasp. James DeMonaco’s dystopian hit “The Purge” from 2013, starring Ethan Hawke and Lena Heady, became a franchise darling. It’s easy to ponder what you would do in a society that allows mass killings and various crimes to go…
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