Criticism Essay: The Purge Though many consider “The Purge” a successful movie, it has many faults. “The purge” is a movie in which the government authorizes a 12 hour period, once a year, in which any and all crime is legal; with certain exceptions. During this time frame, no medical assistance will be available. This national holiday was created in order to regulate crime rate and population. In this movie, Charlie, James’s son, saw a man running from a group of people and decided to unlock his house’s security system. Once the man made it in the house, the group leader made several threats in order to receive the one thing he wanted, to kill the black man. The man gave James an ultimatum; either he turned in the man he was protecting, or James’s family would die. The whole movie revolves on what James would do with the man he protected. His fate rests in James hands. “The Purge” was released on June 7, 2013. It was directed by James …show more content…
If you were snobby and rich on Purge night you were safe. While on the other hand, the poor and lower class citizens were the ones who were truly exposed to the magnitude of The Purge. The director did not take into account, if you were wealthy, you have the option to buy a plane ticket and leave the country. You can go on a vacation and be exempt from all Purge activities. The wealthy will reside safe in another country, while the poor do not have a choice but to stay and try to survive. Another issue that developed was the exemption of all government officials from any and all purge events. It is only fair if the citizens of the country are obligated to take part of this night, government officials do so as well. If not, it just proves that the rich will be safe and the poor would not; due to one major conflict that still surges today… money. This movie grows to be a stereotypical
To get a clear view and understanding of the book, first must review the time period in history. The book was written in the mid 1950's during the cold war. Former General McCarthy, then U.S. Senator started a fire ball of suspicion, suppression, and incarceration. This had a very huge impact on the entrainment industry, which included everyone from playwrights to filmmakers, as well as writers and actors. If anyone in that time period was suspected of being a communist, the government could come and pull them out of their home. At the least a suspected communist would be banned, or put on a black ball list. Printed in the Times, McCarthy's First Slander, "Overnight, his speech sparked a media firestorm that played to the basest fears of Americans swept up in a frightening cold war and triggered loyalty oaths, blacklists and personal betrayals that cost an estimated 10,000 Americans their jobs and some shattered innocents their lives." (Johanna McGeary 28) This happened to a number of actors and film makers during that time period. The black ball list was a list of names of people who were believed to be communist. The people on this list came from the movie industry as well as writers. These people would no longer be able to get work ...
of Sal. It for the most part pawns him off as a racist. On the
The movie Blow is about a man named George Jung who Johnny Depp plays furthermore he made the cocaine market in America in the 1950’s-1970’s. In this movie, you see the horrific effects that can take place to you and the people that closest to you, George was apart of the war on drugs and it caught up to him quick. He moves to California as a child in which he became wealthy for selling marijuana and expands his market but eventually you see him turn careless and gets caught by the police. George ends up meeting a man named Diego Delgado in jail, and was now introduced to the drug Cocaine, which was now a way for him to become wealthy again, be became a cocaine dealer.
Are we human if we don’t have a choice to choose between acting good or acting evil? A Clockwork Orange directed by Stanley Kubrick is a brutal film that entails many sociological meanings. Alex DeLarge and his “droogs” (gang) live in a derange society of “ultra-violence” and rape. Alex and his gang cause havoc around the town that leads to the “droogs” turning on Alex during a mischievous act on an innocent women and Alex getting arrested. While in prison he is chosen for “treatment” that is suppose to purify Alex and turn him into the “perfect citizen”. We’ve gone over many sociological concepts in class, but the three that I believe apply the most to this film are socialization, deviance, and resocialization.
“The Purge” occurs in the 2020s after the New Founding Fathers of America created it to help reduce crime and poverty rates. Crime and poverty rates were at an all-time high in the United States, and this was the solution. It is known as “the night that saved our country”. James Sandin, the protagonist of the film, creates security systems to specifically protect people from Purge night. He has fitted every house in his neighbourhood with the highest immunity from the horrors of Purge night. The Purge is a 12 hour period and goes from 7 am to 7 pm. Shortly before
The movie The Purge is built on many elements from Burke’s theory about the sublime. The main ones that are seen more than once in the movie is terror, obscurity, power, and the violence. The sublime theory is used in many of the horror movies, because it makes the people feel an emotion that they can’t express. When people watch The Purge it has them on the edge of their seats to see what is going to happen next in the movie. The use of the sublime theory in the horror movies is to give the public what they want. People can feel better about themselves after watching these types of movies. Using these elements together, it makes the movie better, but not only that, but each element helps each other out in the scene to make it a very good movie and show the appeal of the sublime theory.
Dir. Stanley Kubrick. Prod. Stanley Kubrick, Victor Lyndon, and Ken Adam. By Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George, Gilbert Taylor, Anthony Harvey, and Laurie Johnson. Perf. Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, and James Earl Jones. BLC, 1963. DVD.
In Hollywood there is also a lack of representation with executives because the most of the power resides in people that are ethnically white. Brent Lang and Dave McNary believe that black films are usually not picked up by studios because very few people in powerful positions are black. Therefore, most studios don’t understand what would appeal to black audiences. This causes analysts to undervalue the potential profit of black films, turning executives away from being interested in pursuing black film projects. Examples of black movie profits far exceeding predictions are found in this quote from their article , How Tracking Fails Diverse Movies: “"Straight Outta Compton 's" $60.2 million debut was roughly $20 million more than most trade publications had predicted. "War Room," a faith-based drama about the power of prayer, more than doubled predictions with its $11.3 million launch. And last weekend 's champ, Sony 's "Perfect Guy," exceeded expectations by nearly $15 million when it kicked off with $29.4 million” (Lang and McNary). The history between black and whites in America come into play with the existence of a phenomenon called the “Hollywood plantation arrangement” which alludes to the relationship of black slaves and white slaveowners pre-civil war. This idea describes how “the relationship between African Americans and White Americans is rooted in a tradition of ownership, guidance, and responsibility” which “directly influences African Americans’ ability to access economic power and ownership, thereby limiting creative control and cultural protection (Ndoubou 7). The ruling class, which in Hollywood is the whites, use their power to maintain control by creating these images in media that make the blacks seem lesser...
The idea that rich cotton mill owners would give up a decent amount of money for a seat at the council is very historically accurate. More events are tied directly to the movie but the most notable and one that’s worth the most attention giving is nearing the end. Once Piotr Fronczewski (Communist Party Secretary) tries to swamp out the movies at the cinema in order to get rid of the actors who refuse to play their rolls was one way that the communist regime in Poland tried to control the public. Once they were unsuccessful at replacing current order they tried the next best thing (in their opinion) which was to burn the movie. This is extremely important because it says what happens when a political party can’t control a small part of a society.
We all have read what Russia was like at that time, government controlled, almost like North Korea. This is a dark comedy because throughout the entire play you know those villagers are going to be executed, but it is still
Dir. Julie Taymor. Perf. Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange. Fox Searchlight Pictures, 1999.
Alex Garland’s movie, Ex Machina, seems to be another fantasy based film where humans create machines that are able to behaves as humans, but this film looks beyond behavior and into deeper concepts such as control of the mind and not just the body. A scene that displays this idea is when Caleb slashes into his arm and begins to push the blood out to ensure that he is still human and not a machine. Throughout this movie, especially in this particular scene, demonstrates main interaction with a robot, which then leads to minimal human interaction and sleepless nights. While this scene could have just been for attention or to add dramatic effect to the movie, but seeing the scene through a different perspective of other intellectual minds,
The film The Internship is the story of Billy McMahon (played by Vince Vaughn) and Nick Campbell (played by Owen Wilson) who lose their jobs as salesman when the company they work for closes down. They then manage to get internships at Google in an attempt to reinvent themselves and to eventually get jobs at Google. The only problem is that Billy and Nick are going to Google which is a technology giant but they themselves do not have any tech skills which makes them unsuitable for the internship. One of the people working at Google who are helping to select candidates for the internship then convinces the company to give these two men a chance. When Nick and Billy arrive at Google for their summer internship they find themselves in
‘Our interest in the parallels between the adaptation inter-texts is further enhanced by consideration of their marked differences in textual form,’
Dir. Steven Spielberg. By Brian Aldiss. Perf. Haley, Joel Osment and Jude Law.