The pitch of "The Purge" is that, in a not-so-distant future, the new US government that call themselves the New Founding Fathers of America - NFFA - allow, once per year and for a duration of 12 hours, that all crimes including murder are permissible and remain unpunished. This to prevent overcrowded prisons and to give ordinary citizens the opportunity to vent all their anger and frustrations.
Straight from the original "The Purge" in 2013, you knew this slightly dystopian and paranoid concept would be successful and spawn a lot of sequels. My immediate reflection also was that it wouldn't take very long before there comes a plot in which the people will disobey the 12-hour rule and just continue purging. In fact, it took longer than I thought, since there already were two sequels, a prequel, and a TV-series. So, to answer the cynical question of the user-comment's title is probably everyone!
"The Forever Purge" cleverly responds to some painfully relevant themes of this day and age. The increasingly racist middle class, the hatred sown by President Trump toward Mexican immigrants, and the nonstop increase of violence on the streets because it is too easy to buy guns. Hollywood, of course, will always remain a very left-winged community, with as result that all the villains are portrayed as dim-witted rednecks and dangerous lunatics. To emphasize the peace-symbolism and the message for tolerance even more, it is Mexico that opens its borders at the end of the story and gives frightened Americans the chance to flee from their dangerous country. It's all very cliched and predictable, but it serves to achieve the objectives of the film, which is to show graphic violence and brutal retaliation, and to give a little bit of hope for the future.
I never was a big fan of "The Purge" and its sequels, but they are good enough to watch for free when they air on television. That theory also goes for "The Forever Purge", since there are a handful of suspenseful moments, disturbing looking purge-disguises, and some nasty murders. Everything else is quite forgettable.
Straight from the original "The Purge" in 2013, you knew this slightly dystopian and paranoid concept would be successful and spawn a lot of sequels. My immediate reflection also was that it wouldn't take very long before there comes a plot in which the people will disobey the 12-hour rule and just continue purging. In fact, it took longer than I thought, since there already were two sequels, a prequel, and a TV-series. So, to answer the cynical question of the user-comment's title is probably everyone!
"The Forever Purge" cleverly responds to some painfully relevant themes of this day and age. The increasingly racist middle class, the hatred sown by President Trump toward Mexican immigrants, and the nonstop increase of violence on the streets because it is too easy to buy guns. Hollywood, of course, will always remain a very left-winged community, with as result that all the villains are portrayed as dim-witted rednecks and dangerous lunatics. To emphasize the peace-symbolism and the message for tolerance even more, it is Mexico that opens its borders at the end of the story and gives frightened Americans the chance to flee from their dangerous country. It's all very cliched and predictable, but it serves to achieve the objectives of the film, which is to show graphic violence and brutal retaliation, and to give a little bit of hope for the future.
I never was a big fan of "The Purge" and its sequels, but they are good enough to watch for free when they air on television. That theory also goes for "The Forever Purge", since there are a handful of suspenseful moments, disturbing looking purge-disguises, and some nasty murders. Everything else is quite forgettable.
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