Violent-crime rates have hit an all-time low, due in part to a government instated 12 hour time period once a year called the Purge.
All crimes, including murder, are legal to commit during this time and emergency services are suspended.
Only government officials are off-limits.
Everyone else is up for grabs.
This yearly catharsis is just enough to curb everyone's apetite for blood, but by the time the week of the Purge comes around, everybody starts getting antsy.
Listing the names. Making their plans. Gathering supplies.
Could you just imagine knowing that in only a few hours your neighbors would have a license to kill anyone they'd like? Could you imagine knowing in only a few hours YOU would have a license to kill anyone you'd like?
One of the main justifications of Purging in the film is based on man's inherit wickedness. The people who lose their lives during the 12 hour free-for-all are commemorated for serving their country; bringing forth peace throughout the nation simply by falling victim to another man's rage.
Amongst some other themes such as social class and economic status, the overarching thesis of the movie is the murderous nature of man. This is what is being purged; not the lives lost during the annual slaughter, but instead it is the evil drive behind the murders.
I do believe there is an evil nature in all man, but I don't believe it can be purged; the source of evil in man is man himself. Acting upon that nature, neglecting and isolating it, analyzing and labeling it... none of those things are purging of it.
There's not much we can do on our own. We can't simply purge ourselves of our problems, because we are our own problems.
Could you just imagine knowing that in only a few hours your neighbors would have a license to kill anyone they'd like? Could you imagine knowing in only a few hours YOU would have a license to kill anyone you'd like?
One of the main justifications of Purging in the film is based on man's inherit wickedness. The people who lose their lives during the 12 hour free-for-all are commemorated for serving their country; bringing forth peace throughout the nation simply by falling victim to another man's rage.
Amongst some other themes such as social class and economic status, the overarching thesis of the movie is the murderous nature of man. This is what is being purged; not the lives lost during the annual slaughter, but instead it is the evil drive behind the murders.
I do believe there is an evil nature in all man, but I don't believe it can be purged; the source of evil in man is man himself. Acting upon that nature, neglecting and isolating it, analyzing and labeling it... none of those things are purging of it.
There's not much we can do on our own. We can't simply purge ourselves of our problems, because we are our own problems.
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That's a very good point. Human beings are flawed people. If we were free of things like evil, we'd be perfect, and this worldd would be a Eutopia. But There's no such thing as perfect with humanity. All we can do is try to be the best we can be, and avoid being bad as much as humanly possible.
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