In The Purge: Anarchy, all laws are suspended for a single night.
by Ben Sachs
The Purge, a surprise hit last year, takes place in a futuristic U.S. whose totalitarian government, hoping to exorcise homicidal impulses in the populace, has instituted an annual holiday during which all laws are suspended for one night. The premise of Americans celebrating their national identity through rape, murder, and robbery inspires all sorts of associations, from the genocide of Native Americans to more recent hate crimes, yet writer-director James DeMonaco shrewdly avoided any clear-cut allegory.…[ Read more ]