Look at "The Giver," or even (yes) "Avatar." Etc. A lot of Hollywood's idea of the future is not meant to be parsed out and logical. Except, well, uh, really? Yeah, it implies that we would kill without compunction, and that the next day you would walk by your neighbor, who just killed a few people during the Purge, and say, "Good morning Mrs.
So the public can expunge their violence by killing a few people and the other 364 days are crime free. And so therefore you can go with it if you decide to. Of course, if you think about it, it's about as believable as zombies. So they watch on their monitors the calm and then the lack of calm on the nice street outside, at night. So 7pm rolls around and the family has a fortress of a house (steel doors drop down in front of the windows and doors). They have two children in the standard mode, talented and slightly disaffected. His wife (Lena Headey) is a sweetheart in the clichéd way (she is sadly the typical Hollywood female, incompetent but nice to have around). Ethan Hawke plays a great regular, successful, nice Dad. Well, the reason this works in the first half hour is the calm, steady, well appointed believablility of the acting and scenario in this fancy (upscale American) house. You can murder, destroy things, be a general naughty boy or girl, and have no criminal consequences the next day. Kind of like Devil's Night in Detroit without any cops. Once a year for twelve hours everyone is allowed to be an ultra criminal without repercussion. The premise is clear right away: it's the near future, maybe 2021, in the United States. But the first half hour is really great-some potential here that went aground fast.
It doesn't make the grade as a great movie mostly because of an hour of redundant ax-wielding around a big suburban house. The Purge (2013) Well, this is either the stupidist movie ever or it's a mishmash of something audacious and creative and a slasher film with campy expectations.
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