Ree MJ

I really liked the movie & the narrative. First it was a damn good action movie, let me get that out first. Acted well for what it was supposed to be (a ruff prequel) now... I think people who didn't like it only saw it as "white people are bad" so true to form, they bash it. But it actually had nothing to do with that as a whole if they watched the social aspect. It showed that people, even in some of the most desperate situations, are good. It took place where it did because the THOUGHT is, everybody in the hood is violent & desperate and would do anything for money so it should be a success. Instead, the vast majority took the money & stayed home some had parties but only a very small few actually tried to kill for cash. Like any fully funded program that government wouldn't want to fail, when the people didn't react as expected, they needed to make something happen. They were out of touch so they thought, poor, kill 4 cash, EASY. Didn't happen. So men in sheets posing as Klan wasn't a shot at wealthy white, it was simply the disguise of the hired military/mercenaries. The area was chosen because the people were poor. The chips were put in as a backup. You have a chip, government handout, they know where u are & control your situation. If you stayed, but didn't have the chip, NO handout, they didn't know where u were & couldn't control how it ended for you. While the ending was great from an action & moral perspective, it wasn't in the franchise perspective. With the way this ended, there should have been no more to follow because it wasn't a success and of course this was a prequel. The other Purges showed from the wealthy & middle class perspective and after it had spread across the U.S. Those people are the aftermath. What u have left after the Purge is a fact. Where everybody attempted to be nice so as not to be purged later & capitalizedoff of it. Expensive home security, purge parties where the wealthy were safe but would bring a sacrificial poor person. They first one had no black people but the one rabbit. Giving the impression over the years, not many survived. First were wealthy citizens killing the poor or by race but this one wasn't. In this one it was an isolated neighborhood, everybody was the same. Nobody had more than anyone else. Nobody was killing because they didn't want homeless people on the street like the others killing because a black guy is in the area but the others were. I liked this perspective it's just in the end, it doesn't fit because this should have stopped all future purges. The regular people won with proof of staged violence by the FFA and not the citizens. BUT it showed that the powers that be didn't care that the average citizen didn't want the violence & separation, but the government did