Movie Review - The Purge: Anarchy

Yes, I actually saw this. Needless to say I wasn't the one picking which movie to see. As you all know I am not a fan of scary movies, but the concept of The Purge intrigues me.  I didn't see the original, but I did read the complete synopsis on Wikipedia.

The movie did a good job in building the story with a lot of suspense. It had a well thought out plot, good acting and of course a lot of people getting killed in imaginative ways. I'm glad it didn't cut corners just to bring you a movie with lots of killing. It's worth seeing, even though it's the poster child for the NRA.

There are a few things however that (if this was ever to become reality) don't make sense to me.

1. It is just a few hours before the Purge begins - why the hell are you still at work or driving somewhere? You should have been safe at home for days barricading yourself in.

2. Where's the home protection?? It showed some people boarding up their door with wood and getting a hand gun out.  The houses in the suburbs and the million dollar mansions have nothing.  People - the point of this night is anyone is allowed to go on a killing spree!! I expect an armed fortress to come up from the ground around your home. Plus something more than a hand gun.

3. This is only the 6th annual Purge, but everyone seems to be buying into it as the way to cleanse their soul and their right as a citizen.  I can understand the buy in of the crazy people who would be killing people anyway, but not everyone.  Maybe if this was the 30th annual Purge then it has some history, or if there was more emphasis on an event that lead to the Purge (like with The Hunger Games), it would be more believable.  Maybe I missed this in the Wikipedia synopsis from the first movie.

Personally I would not be someone who actively participates in the Purge.  I wouldn't however sleep at all during it (like people did in the movie). I would be watching my security cameras that have views surrounding my place, surrounded by my heavy duty arsenal. Just in case.

I did lean over to TJ in the middle of the movie to tell him that if this does ever happen here, we're moving to Italy.

The Danger Those Movies Warned Us About

Maybe it's because I Robot was on last night or maybe I'm just paranoid about what movies have warned us the future holds.  I just read an article about how everyone in the world will be connected to the internet by 2020.  People will have personal robots, and everything from our homes, work, personal devises and entire lives would be connected.  My mind flashed to the centralized robots taking over in I Robot and then to the aftermath shown in the Terminator series.

Am I just paranoid, or is a better question - why isn't everyone paranoid about this?

Just think of how your world and life has been changed and improved by what has happened in the last few years. Advances in the internet; smart phones - where you have access to your connected life on the go, from the internet to email, to built in cameras to apps for just about everything; social media platforms - connecting with people, companies and more in a way never before possible; online banking - connected to our banks on our computers and on our phones (including paying with our phones); streaming - video and movies on your computers and in your hands; cars with apps and smart phone connectivity; Google glass - where everything is right in front of you and you can record your life as it happens; and more.

Total connectivity has been the center of many movie themes - I Robot, The Terminator, The Matrix,  Eagle Eye, 2001 A Space Odyssey, The Black Hole, Tron  - all resulting in a catastrophic downfall. But the world keeps moving forward and developing these technologies, and everyone is buying.  The only complaint I've heard about these new connectivities are about people who have left Facebook because they think their personal information is being shared for marketing purposes.  Nothing about the dangers controlling your home security from your smart phone.  One word - hackers.  Someone hacked into Target to get over 100 million people's information. Even if there isn't a super computer going to take us all down, there's individuals that will.

TJ says: if the computers take over, just set off an EMP and we're all good.