So I went and rewatched The First Purge. It’s one of those “so bad it’s good movies”.
A new political. ultra right wing party called “The Founding Fathers” has emerged victorious over reps and dems. This is amidst a major influx of immigrants, a second housing crisis and mass jobs losses and poverty.
When you get people to make politically driven movies, at least get people who can do basic math and shit. How the fuck does a 3rd, ultra right wing party manage to win especially when there’s a major influx of poor immigrants whom are eligible to vote amidst another fucking bigass economic crisis?
It would cause a dilution of voters within the republican party and wouldn’t even get votes from swing voters. That would lead to a complete dem walkover.
I get that they’re commenting on the (perceived) state of the rep party because of Trump but, come on, don’t go full retard.
And that’s what they do throughout the movie.
The protagonist is a major non-melamine deficient drug dealer whose guys fucking sell drugs to kids on the streets.
The NRA is supposed to be the heaviest sponsor and lobbyist of the new party. Alright, fair enough. Gun control. Let’ see where this is headed.
The first Purge is done as an experiment at a place called Stanton Island to see if really does what the prior movies claimed it does - reducing crime rates. I don’t know anything about that place.
When the Purge starts, the places goes under lockdown and the protagonist and gang only save the day because he has a fucking massive armoury of illegal weapons stashed away.
That’s right. They’re commenting on gun control, with one of the reasons against it being the right of a well organized militia right to bear arms in the the event that there is a need to combat government tyranny, while showing a well organized “militia” doing so. Gang. Militia. You can’t even claim I’m playing with semantics here.
With illegally obtained weapons.
Ok. Minor shit. I can let that slide.
But, now, tell me what the fuck would be the real reason a major drug dealer has these stashed away for?
Are you seriously trying to make the argument that average citizens shouldn’t be allowed to own firearms to defend themselves while simultaneously showing that these fuckers who sell drugs to kids on the streets and engage in gang wars are able to easily procure an arsenal of bigass ones illegally? Fuck off lol. I don’t really have any opinions either way with regards to gun control but you’re really shooting yourself in the ass with this.
Then they try to justify this by showing that the government actually planned this shit and attached body cams on volunteers taking part so they can control the narrative in the media. What they don’t show to the public are the government deployed mercenaries AND White nationalists gunning down massive amounts of the poor whom aren’t involved because they can’t afford to support the welfare system anymore because they can’t raise taxes anymore for the rich.
Fuck. You have another housing crisis that’s “even worse” than the previous one, which would imply even a significant proportion of the former middle class are now living below the poverty line, and you’re also implying that the “rich” are the ones keeping them in power?
And it STILL doesn’t explain the fucking NRA shit.
And it would make more sense logically if the rep party was already dissolved or evolved into this current party and lots of people actually KNEW they were thinning the herd this way so their own standards of living can be raised and chose to turn a blind eye if you actually have BALLS and you wanna push the idea that the inevitable development of the political spectrum was moving heavily to the far right, especially in terms of racism and unfounded glorification of exceptionalism/elitism with such a premise. Harsh and nihilistic to the extreme. But at the fucking least logical while also making a further commentary on the extremes people will accept for self preservation.
They end the movie with one character asking, “What do we do now?” and gets the reply, “Now we fight.” What the fuck are you fighting for? The right to bear even more advanced firearms since most of your guys were EASILY taken out by armed drones?
You think posting angry shit on twitter is going to prevent the kind of extreme shit that you’ve already established is going on in the movie? Fuck off lol.
You think you can even start a BLM protest, which didn’t even start when this movie was made, when you’ve already established what THIS government can and will do while fully controlling the media narrative? Seriously, FUCK OFF LMFAO!
HOWEVER, it’s pretty fucking entertaining. The way the protagonist does a Wesley Snipes at the end is worth the price of admission IMO.
Can’t rate this shit, though. It’s too dumb. The action and over-the-top deadpan silliness saves it. The latter will depend on whether such silliness entertains or offends you.
