Friday Fright Night
The Purge: Election Year (2016)
A film that flaunts its progressive bonafides only to not fully embrace them to tell a story we’ve all seen before.
I love The Purge movies.
I’ve seen all of them with the exception of The First Purge (2018), though it will be one of the movies I watch this year for my annual Halloween Movie Marathon.
The Purge as a concept is fascinating, and I appreciate the fact that the movies don’t shy away from the idea that, in a world where the Purge exists, the most vulnerable people will be black and brown people in particular and poor people in general.
The entire series doesn’t shy away from the very real racial and socioeconomic forces that shape our world and would definitely apply in the world of The Purge.
The Purge: Election Year (2016) continues with the themes established in the previous film The Purge: Anarchy (2014) that the Purge exists as a way for the government to rid the country of the poor and others who drag down the economy so those government funds can be funneled into the pockets of the wealthy white elite.
In Election Year, the people are now fully aware of how the government uses Purge night to cull the ranks of…
