The Purge: Anarchy
Director: James DeMonaco
Writer: James DeMonaco
Recommended: Surprisingly enough, yes.
Bechdel Test: Pass, right off the bat
Trigger Warnings (for the film, not necessarily the review): Rape threats, intense weird classist violence
“Anarchist” was a pejorative for a long-ass time before people started calling themselves anarchists. So while I’m pretty convinced the definition of anarchy is “a society without systemic oppression” and not “when everyone runs around killing one another,” I kind of get why some people still hold onto the latter understanding of it.
That was what I told myself to steel myself to watch a film about lawless violence that had “anarchy” in the title.
Maybe I didn’t need to. The Purge: Anarchy is, well, more or less an anarchist film.
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