Wednesday, 26 March 2014

Anarchy in the US

The Purge (2013)

Directed by James DeMonaco this film stars Ethan Hawke, Lena Headly, Max Burkholder and Adeliade Kane. In the near future on one night every year all laws are suspended to allow society a “pressure release”.

The plot of this film is clearly supposed to be a criticism of social conservatism, libertarianism and anarchists but I am not sure that it ever really goes far enough in exploring the reasons behind these philosophies. Ultimately the story is a fairly standard thriller that does not do much beyond the ordinary. Some of the action sequences are not bad but they lack much tension and a lot of the characters have little depth to them.


3/5

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