The Purge (國定殺戮日) is an 2013 film. The movie stars Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey. The movie is based in the future with new founding fathers of America.
It is the year 2022. The United States had fallen into a state of violence and was a nation reborn. The rebirth was a strong economy and very low crime. This new America was forged on an event called "The Purge". The purge was a 12 hour period in March every year where any crime is permissible. Ethan Hawke plays a husband to Lena Heady and is the father of two. The two children are in their teens, the older daughter is in her rebellious stage and the younger son is learning the world and has health problem. Hawke sells security systems meant to protect homes from violent crimes during the purge. The purge starts and they shut the doors. When the son sees a homeless man wonder by in need of help, he lets him in. The people after the homeless man start to attack the house and eventually get in.
The movie was entertaining on premise and wanted to portray a moral dilemma. Can you support the purge? If someone needed help, would you give it to them? If you could commit crime with no conscienceless, would you do it? All which is silly since its a movie. Could you be put into a situation like this? Maybe, there are still countries in this world that operate on terror from the government.
The movie does go into action mode at the end. But the first half is decision after decision made by the protagonist in the movie to allow the terror from the antagonist. Which was hard to do. Because at the end, as a husband and a father, the decisions made by the protagonist wouldn't happen with me.
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