Eliminate neighbors
Many people think that the situation set by Purge1 is too narrow, but it shows a contradiction in Neighborhood. I feel that this is wrong. When a movie attempts to reflect the grand theme of human nature, if the plot setting is also grand, it will only appear fake and empty, but will not have a shocking effect. The screenwriter wonderfully set the background on a light and windy day. The first second he talked and laughed with his neighbors and talked about the homework, and the next second saw each other and killed each other. The setting scene is small, but it is even more frightening, because Such a scene can happen to anyone at any time, and it also makes people think about it inadvertently. These seemingly unimportant little contradictions, little jealousy, your house is bigger than me, and my party did not invite you to such trivialities, but it was magnified to the death and life tragic scene on the night of Purge. What the screenwriter wants to express is the entanglement between human psychology and violence. Because we have a civilized system and laws and regulations, these little emotions are suppressed in our hearts. If our modern society really has PurgeNight, it is hard to guarantee that there will be real battles between neighbors.
Purge the rich
The essence of the second part is at the end. It was the rich who used this system to eliminate the poor and profited and entertained, but in the end they backfired, committed sins and couldn't live. It is a wonderful irony in the end that the rich are vying to auction off the entertainment opportunities to slaughter the poor. They despise the poor and overestimate their own strength, thinking that they are something in their pockets, that's why they become like an ancient arena. But everyone did not know that the power of the poor began to awaken, and the black leader who finally rushed in took the rich man’s lair with a weapon, and I kept shouting in my heart. This also reflects the duality of most policies, and the possibility of moths that may appear in the process of implementing the policies. It can be said that if any kind of policy itself is set to some extremes, it will eventually go to extremes and backfire those who make the policy. This is also an absolute drawback of politics and governance. Because as long as there is rule, there will be opposing classes. As long as there are opposing classes, any strong policy may eventually go wrong or lose both sides.
The second part also cleverly continued the theme of the first part reflecting human nature. The happy family of fat sisters became an umbrella for the protagonist and the pig teammates. In the end, the family contradictions killed each other, which strongly promoted the development of the plot. This detail reflects that if there is no law and physical integrity and protection, too many people with fragile minds will use extreme violence to solve the problem, even if the problem is not as serious as you die or die. It can be seen that the screenwriter does not support anarchism, and agrees that human violence needs to be regulated and suppressed by physique and laws.
Cleanup system
The climax of the whole movie is repeated, and conflicts and struggles emerge one after another. Because the setting is elections and the state system, the contradictions intensify and become more intense and exciting. More and larger forces are drawn into this setting. The ruling class that surfaced has disappointed me. Like the rich people in the second part, they treat their opponents by pulling them into this physical setting and killing them. The plot repeats the usual Hollywood villain's death of talkative routines. I don’t understand why Hollywood’s way of giving pigs’ feet halo is generally that the brutal and terrifying enemy finally subdued the protagonist, and then suddenly the plot became impotence, the villain’s IQ plummeted, and he began to brainwash the protagonist or was immersed in victory. The protagonist suddenly descends and the villain fails. Why is it so easy to catch a female congressman and kill a poor dick first, and not kill this worst enemy first? This is why the Song of Ice and Fire is so successful, because there is no such routine. The villains don't eat dry food, which hero they like to kill which hero, leaving countless exclamation marks and shadows in the hearts of spectators. This movie is generally very exciting, but if the routines are reduced, the founding fathers will not have a sudden drop in IQ, it may be more shocking.
Generally speaking, the films in this series are very successful, and as netizens pointed out, it is rare that more and more shots have word-of-mouth type. I personally hope that if there is a next one, it can reflect more of the conflicts between the ruling class and the poor, and the contradictions within the ruling class and the poor. And the people who oppose the abolition of the purge system should be more exciting.
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