![]() Which made for unsettling, potent intimacy. ![]() Shrewdly, it told the story of the night inside the house of one affluent family. The cleverness of that film didn't stop there. And in terms of movie science fiction it was refreshingly thoughtful. But it remains a bold, strong, simple concept. I'm sure if you trawled through sf literature you'd find similar tales that anticipated the central conceit of The Purge. You can loot, murder and ravage to your heart's content. In The Purge we see a near-future America where the authoritarian government has created a social safety valve by declaring one night every year when, for 12 hours, all crime is legal. No monsters or space ships or futuristic technology. ![]() Instead it was science fiction, but not science fiction as we know it (in the movies), Jim. ![]() It had cunningly positioned itself as a horror movie without any supernatural trappings (and no weary slasher clichés). Last year a clever, sleek little movie slipped into the cinemas. ![]()
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