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Does this movie ever mention how long the Purge has been a tradition?

posted 9 years ago by adam-greenwood
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The second movie takes place during the 6th Annual Purge but that doesn't sit right for me. The way people act and feel about the Purge, especially the rich folk with their Purge-Prayer, seems more like it has been a thing for decades that was taught to them growing up. I was also surprised to meet one of the New Founding Fathers in the sequel as I assumed they belonged to an earlier generation. I can imagine a few old-timers discussing how things used to be less than a decade just doesn't seem enough for it to become so established and normalised. I know the film-makers probably wanted to ground their story by setting it in our near future but it would have worked just as well as an "alternate present" story, maybe where the New Founding Fathers took over after the Great Depression?

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[–] SixRavenX 9 years ago

I don't think it's stated specifically in the movie, but my thinking was that it had been at least 2-3 years old at the minimum, maybe 5 or 6 at the maximum.

I could be completely wrong tho

[–] adam-greenwood 9 years ago

I felt like it should have been a lot longer, as if all the adults would have grown up with it.

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[–] gino-lee 9 years ago

It should be for quite a long time, I'm thinking like 10 years. The son, in his teens wasn't old enough to remember how bad it was before the purge. So I'm using that as an indicator.

[–] dodrade 9 years ago

In the opening titles the earliest Purge shown is 2017, so at least five years.