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The First Purge (2018)
SPOILERS IN THIS EPISODE FOR THE FIRST PURGE (2018)
“Horror films are our collective nightmares.”
SPOILERS
The First Purge (2018)
The Purge (2013)
The Tall Man (2012)
The Experiment (2010)
It Comes at Night (2017)
The Dark Knight (2008)
NO SPOILERS
Lost in London (2017)
Happytime Murders (2018)
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TOPIC INDEX – The First Purge (2018) – Part 1
0:00 – Introductions
2:40 – Movie Discussion begins
3:10 – Laura’s reactions to her first Purge film viewing especially race
5:52 – Race in the previous Purge films
8:22 – Opening with the “angry black man” stereotype
12:01 – Intersectionality
12:30 – Comparing NFFA and Nazi party logo
15:03 – Bernie Sanders
15:55 – Comparisons to our episode on Laugier’s The Tall Man (2012)
17:02 – The power of movies to change minds?
18:53 – Racial history of the Purge films
22:07 – Othering
24:35 – Character continuum
28:32 – Disappointing portrayal of women
30:05 – Recent history has not treated Laura’s arguments well (see The Tall Man episode)
31:12 – Are we currently purging in America?
31:15 – Murder rates by race in the U.S.
31:23 – Fact check on Marshall’s claim about popularity of raising taxes on the wealthy
34:27 to 42:37 – Milgram’s obedience to authority and Zimbardo’s prison experiment
43: 48 – How does the social contract operate?
46:50 – Is seeding the violence the appropriate analogy?
47:41 – The Boyz in the Hood (1991) argument
52:19 – Life expectancy by race
52:52 – Acknowledging isms in America by political party
54:00 – Marshall rants about AMC and similar popular movie theater chains.
59:23 – The prisoner’s dilemma
1:00:20 – They should have gotten a sociologist to design The Purge if they wanted it to be more effective
1:01:57 – Laura counters on social structure and context creating the conditions of possibility for behaviors
1:03:29 – Laura challenges Marshall on his ranting and questions his hypocrisy. Ouch.
1:05:47 – Marshall rebuts on hypocrisy and culpability; emphasizes his anger is at injustice.
1:08:33 – Agency still matters and social change.
1:09:07 – Quick, superficial “fixes”
1:12:27 – The truth comes out! Laura largely agrees.
1:13:23 – Durkheim’s anomie
1:14:40 -Political ideologies in relationship to The Purge
1:17:26 – Back to Othering
1:18:00 – Our pitch for another sequel
1:20:22 – Spectrum of self-awareness
Also mentioned is the book Buried by the Times by Laural Leff. It discusses the U.S. ignoring knowledge of the Holocaust while it was happening.
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