It has been a long time since I blogged about anything so something really interesting popped in my mind. Last year, during Eid, my cousin persuaded me into watching The Purge. Well, you know how Eid is all about watching movies with all your family and stuff, I dont know if that's the case for you, but yeah, that's the case for me. So okay, The Purge is basically where any type of crime, including murder will be legal for a 12 hour period. Dont worry, it is not a real thing in America, but it could be possible to me due to extreme oppression that some americans do face everyday. A lot of politicians have discussed this thoroughly. Also, in that 12 hour period, all type of services (ambulans etc) will not be available. Scary? Super scary. I cannot imagine myself being a part of The Purge, whether I will survive through it or not, I dont know. Nonetheless, the whole point of The Purge, according to this movie, is for everyone to get a chance to cleanse themselves. I cant really define the word "cleanse" in this context, that has to depend on what the person wants out of The Purge, really.
As a muslim, I strongly disagree with this concept. Why should we even support it? Murder among Muslims is haraam. We can kill non muslims if we want, that is if only you hear them making fun of Islam. If you dont, you cant kill them. So, it would be no point if it were to be applied in Malaysia. I know, in this movie, they're trying to portray that America is a country that puts justice before anything else. The poor people are constantly being ordered by the wealthy to do ridiculous things to save themselves. For example, the wealthy would pay the poor tons of money just to make the person they dislike, disappear forever. Obviously, the poor would take the blame, thats the use of the money given in the first place. The first part of this money, showed how rich people protect themselves from The Purge and the second part of this movie shows how poor people protect themselves from The Purge. At the same time, the wealthy can choose to buy a poor person and kill them in their houses for the sake of cleansing themselves. The family of the poor will be paid a lot of money. Wow, that is still injustice to me. In the first part of the movie, it showed how poor people roam around the neighborhood of the wealthy, to scare them, and then kill them, violently. But of course, the wealthy had prepared as well by protecting their houses with super excellent, bulletproof metal to avoid the poor from invading their houses.
People who are participating in The Purge usually wears a scary mask. To be honest, I dont see the whole point of wearing a mask because they would usually kill people who dont even remember them but then it hits, even best friends could kill each other. They would torture the person they want to murder first, and then kill them so if a best friend were to kill another best friend, they wouldnt want their best friend to know that their murderer is their own best friend. In this case, you should never commit a single to foul to anybody.
All in all, I frankly think this is a great movie but the implementation of the concept that this movie tries to portray should be strictly prohibited. Who knows, what shall happen to the population of America. It might be a good thing for some of you, but everything should be up to Allah. We, humans have no single power to determine on who we want to dead or alive. Thats it.
