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Film · Prime Video · 2013

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The Purge

39Leave it.

The question is real. The thrill is not a reason to watch. Adults.

Take controlThis scores 39. If you do not want The Purge in the house, the steps are on Prime Video. Block it

The review

A family boards the windows and discovers that a legal crime is still a crime, and that the night is aimed at the people least able to buy a door. That is a true political sentence. The film then spends the sentence on a home-invasion scare, because a scare sells and a sentence does not.

Do not use it as a thought experiment at dinner with children in the room. A republic that imagines a holiday from law has already begun to hate its weak. You do not need the mask to understand that.

Journal

Keep The Purge in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 39. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Get Out

46 instead of 39

Get Out is still a horror film, and it scores 46 instead of 39. What you gain is courage: He fights his way out of a house that asked him to be polite while it ate him.

The eight

4
Industry
A guarded house is a kind of work. The film prefers the siege.
5
Household
They do try to keep the family inside the door.
2
Piety
No higher law than the statute that was switched off.
5
Courage
Opening the door to a stranger is the one brave beat.
4
Republic
It names a nation that prices safety, then guns the scene.
2
Temperance
The release is the fantasy.
6
Truth
The premise tells on a country that would ration mercy.
3
Stewardship
What it leaves is a mask, not a duty.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 1972

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Deliverance

39Leave it.

They wanted a wild weekend, and the film never gives that weekend back.

Take controlThis scores 39. Deliverance cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

Four suburban men wanted a last wild weekend on a river a dam is about to bury. They got a trip they were not built for. The river was the point, and then it was not. One of them is changed in a way the film does not heal. That refusal to tidy the ending is the honest part.

Adult. Do not describe the assault, and do not make a contest out of who can sit through it. The dam was already going to spend the river for people who do not live on it. One of them carries that change home. If someone in the room goes quiet, stay with that, not the canoe.