79 - The First Purge

Eavesdropping at the Movies · Aug 11, 2018 · 38m

Low-budget, unexceptionally made, and absolutely vital. The First Purge takes the story of the Purge series back to the beginning, with a poor community composed of people of colour being savagely experimented upon for political purposes. Mike slightly had to drag José to see it, as it was showing only in single late-night screenings, but both were glad he did, as it's perhaps the most direct and powerful critique of white hegemony that popular cinema has offered in recent memory. We examine the imagery of the deliberate terrorisation of black communities in the USA. It draws on real-life…