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Rating: 6/10 (21 March 2020)

Warning: SpoilersA film that brings to realization that a government can get together and allow a 12-hour period for people in the United States to murder, rape, vandalize etc. without consequences. James Sandin (Ethan Hawke) and his wife Mary Sandin (Lena Headey) and their family try to stop their community as well as outsiders who try to take a man Bloody Stranger (Edwin Hodge) for the purge that they are housing. Polite Stranger (Rhys Wakefield) and his team of purgers comes to their bloody stranger back as he had escaped them.
James is a security salesman who owns a multi-million-dollar company selling house security systems to stop purgers from entering their homes. He has become rich over this and to he and Mary's surprise as the film moves on their neighbors are upset by their success. The neighbors plot is to take the lives of the Sandin's without them having a clue of what is going on. The Purge Anarchy is a sequel to this film and the theme is the same and the story line has changed just a little bit.
This film does a great job with using lighting and angle to show and set the mood in this film. When Polite stranger arrives at the Sandin residence he has his head down with a mask on and the light and shadows make him look like a total creep from the get go. They also show the volks with him in the shadows lurking and waiting for their prey. The angles make him look like he has a big face and is a tiny man based on the high angle. Other situations with angle are when Mrs. Sandin is sitting at the table towards the end of the movie and you can see Mrs. Grace Ferrin (Arija Bareikis) in the background try to take Mary's shotgun. This adds to the drama and comedy side to things and it shows you how they really can't trust anyone during this purge that is going on.
This movie could have been maybe more complicated but they tried to make it basic and so people could understand what was going on. In Anarchy, you understand the theme better so they can get more complicated and get you on your feet more. This film brought a lot of sound with all of the guns and weapons being used in order to make it look and feel like 12 hours of complete chaos. It makes you believe that it could happen maybe somewhere in this world someday.