This is one of the oddest sequels I’ve seen, because it broadens the focus, but actually comes out presenting a clearer vision of the themes connected to the premise. It’s better than the first movie, and the message is much better.
More time is devoted to the government’s role in perpetuating the Purge, and not just in the big ways. More than one person, prior to killing someone, announces that the government has granted them this right. There is also a substantial plot that involves the government sending out trucks with armed soldiers with the purpose of wiping out the people in specific buildings.
What’s more important is that we get a vision of the response to this sort of thing… eventually, people realize that this event just exists so that the poor can be wiped out en masse, and that the only way it’s going to be corrected is if the wealthy die instead.
I still find the premise of this movie more disturbing than I would expect. I’m not sure why that is. I guess it might be the message that nearly everyone wants to kill others, but that the illegality of it holds them back. I have a hard time stomaching that.
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