Trailer for upcoming movie "The Purge"

[Courtesy Flush]

A right wing Utopia in which poverty, homelessness, and unemployment are eliminated by allowing unlimited murder and mayhem one day per year.

[Plucketeer]

1. Surely, NRA members

will get a discount on tickets to this event.

[BlueCaliDem]

2. My son invited me to go see that movie with him, but I said thanks but no thanks.

Although it can help some people see how a world with a day of lawlessness would help eradicate people's {and corporate} enemies and can serve as a warning, the bloodshed is too high for my taste. And the fact that the family take in one of the chosen victims - a black man - is just too much for me.

[Ed Suspicious]

3. I plan to see it. Not the feel-good movie of the summer but I loves me some dystopian

movies. And since I'm taking a class on politics in film this will be right up my alley.

[Hissyspit]

8. If you bring it up in class or write a paper on it

Be sure and do your research. This is not an original idea - Star Trek "Return of the Archons," etc. - that's what I think of off the top of my head. There are other antecedents.

[Ed Suspicious]

10. Thank you for the tip. My question before the edit is answered further down. Thanks again.

[Hissyspit]

11. Yes.

[leveymg]

4. I wrote about this in '82 - called it "street cleaning" a national day of televised

ultraviolence, but assumed that it would be carried out by law enforcement. How naive of me. Didn't foresee privatization going this far.

[KansDem]

5. Revealing comment from IMDB's comment page

In response "Who the hell would agree to this stupid idea?"

That's because you probably have no morals. People with morals wouldn't give a crap if the government said that all crime is legal. They still wouldn't kill someone or steal.

The movie's only purpose is to show that some people only behave a certain way because of the threat of punishment. Moral people don't need threats to behave.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2184339/board/nest/214928211?d=214928608&p=1#214928608

Kind of sounds like the reason for the belief in Hell...

[muntrv]

6. Or as George Zimmerman would call it, PORN.

[FreepFryer]

7. Or as Gene Roddenberry called it, the 'Red Hour'

[Hissyspit]

9. "Return of the Archons"

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Archons

Festival!