{"id":28541,"date":"2018-07-22T02:05:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T06:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=28541"},"modified":"2018-07-23T09:00:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T13:00:17","slug":"the-first-purge-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/22\/the-first-purge-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Purge (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019ve come around on \u201cThe Purge\u201d movies in 2018. What I once thought of as goofy exploitation movies, are now goofy exploitation movies with a point. They\u2019re exploitation we need right now, they\u2019re kind of angry diatribes about society that I\u2019ve come to respect. Stuff about the white privileged banking off of the purge, the purge becoming an industry on to itself, \u201cThe Purge\u201d posing as an alternate universe tale where the female candidate for president reigned supreme, and now where \u201cThe First Purge\u201d begins as an \u201cexperiment.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe First Purge\u201d has a lot of cheese and silliness injected but it\u2019s one of the most focused entries of the series to date. It\u2019s a pretty balls to the wall actioner about a government bred program with its own ulterior motives that we slowly come to explore by the time the film comes to its third chapter. \u201cThe First Purge\u201d is in a very, very near future in Staten Island, New York, where crime and poverty are up and the NFFA have deemed it a very bold but potentially successful idea to instill a mandatory annual night where nothing is against the law. On the surface it seems like something of a radical method of giving society a means of relinquishing their aggression. But when we open on the new film, representatives for the Purge experiment are interviewing potential prospects for the impending night.<\/p>\n

Not only are they recruiting people to stay the course for the First Purge, but they\u2019re offering them monetary rewards that blatantly prey on their poverty, and leave them with a damned if they do, damned if they don\u2019t position. Much of \u201cThe First Purge\u201d wears its message on its sleeve, examining an urban landscape primarily dominated by minorities of African American and Hispanic descent. Before long, despite protests, the NFFA stages the first purge, and soon the predators creep out of the darkness. Events become even more inexplicable when white supremacists and KKK members start preying on various civilians, which leaves our main characters pushed in to the middle of a horrendous situation they hoped to ride out.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe First Purge\u201d resembles a lot of \u201cDas Experiment\u201d and \u201cWag the Dog,\u201d where the engineers of this experiment find that it begins to work too well. And what becomes something of a cleansing social experiment, transforms in to a cleansing of race and the lower class. Gerard McMurray\u2019s direction is stellar with the continued realization of \u201cThe Purge\u201d universe becoming so much more volatile and fascinating to delve in to. \u201cThe Purge\u201d began as something of a dystopian horror film that\u2019s been pushed further and further in to our current social and class climate where we\u2019re even more divided than ever. I wish we didn\u2019t have to contend with the goofy mid-credits promo for the upcoming TV series, but thankfully \u201cThe Purge\u201d survives as the best installment of the franchise to date, with powerful social commentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve come around on \u201cThe Purge\u201d movies in 2018. What I once thought of as goofy exploitation movies, are now goofy exploitation movies with a point. They\u2019re exploitation we need right now, they\u2019re kind of angry diatribes about society that I\u2019ve come to respect. Stuff about the white privileged banking off of the purge, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,240,302,477,797,906,1012,1087],"class_list":["post-28541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-crime","tag-drama","tag-horror","tag-prequel","tag-science-fiction","tag-survival","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28558,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28541\/revisions\/28558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}