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What Would You Do on the Night of The Purge?

What Would You Do on the Night of The Purge?

Would you brave the streets or triple-lock your doors?

 

 

Itā€™s taken us five years and four movies to make it to the beginning. Aptly released on the 4th of July, The First Purge, the most recent addition to the dystopian-horror franchise takes a step back, giving us an all-too-vivid peek at how the annual tradition of chaos and bloodshed began.

 

To those unfamiliar with the movie series, The Purge takes place in a near-future United States wherein a powerful political party called The New Founding Fathers of America implements a yearly occasion: a 12-hour window during which virtually no laws exist. In the interest of keeping the crime rate at a minimum for the rest of the year, citizens are allowed to unleash all their aggressions and act with no penalties whatsoever.

 

A problematic premise? Quite. But wait, thereā€™s more.

 

 

Throughout the franchise, even bigger underlying issues reveal themselves. Now we donā€™t want to give away too much for those whoā€™ve yet to catch up, but weā€™ll tell you this much: the government is never as clean as they make themselves look. Like its predecessors, 2018ā€™s The First Purge is flush with social commentary and blows at real-life political situations. Consider it another step towards the quick-forming trend of conscious, ā€œelevated horror.ā€

 

Before we get carried away, letā€™s get down to the reason you clicked through: the quiz. What would you be doing in a time and place where felons run free and crimes go unpunished? The quiz below might just give you the answer.

 

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Art Alexandra Lara

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