Enemies of the people. Shooting

The painting "Judgment Night-2" directed by James Demonaco, who was released in early August, we took us as a commercial thriller

Meanwhile, it is impossible to recall another so tough and conceptual political film screening, made in the 21st century. This is a film about a really representable future in which fascism triumphs

Before hunting: Once a year, the government allows citizens to kill each other

The most amazing thing: how the "popcorn" audience freezes in the hall. She stops chewing, tearing it on mobile phones, suddenly clearly realizing that on the screen, with all entertaining shootings and chases, something important is happening. She begins to project the situation on herself.

And the situation is really still. It is not for nothing that the original name is the first and second parts of the film not “Judgment Night”, but The Purge is “Cleaning”. Political cleaning. "Judgment Night-2" is the name of the film at the Russian box office. Authentic name - "Cleaning: anarchy."

Who and why are cleaned

The action takes place in the United States of the 2020s, where the new fathers-founding nations have. This is a classic anti -utopia - a film about a bad totalitarian future. It is amazing that in America they are not shy about making such films to themselves. American intellectuals are able to treat their country critically and develop, including in the cinema, harsh scenarios of the future, the cause of which are the ugliness of the present. It is impossible to imagine that such a film about the nightmare in Russia can be shot in principle. If only because such a picture is a direct path to the shelf.

So: the new founding fathers managed to overcome the economic crisis and almost eradicate crime due to the fact that they came up with the night of long knives-permissible fascism. Once a year, from the evening of March 21 to the morning of the 22nd, for twelve hours, killings were legalized. You can finish the wrong wife, the corrosive boss, an annoying neighbor and just anyone - and you will not be anything for it. This allows society to release steam, and at the same time get rid of useless members - beggars, patients, as well as marginals of all stripes that do not fit into the system. The rest of the time, any crimes are punishable by super -sett. Orwell probably liked such a plot.

Since the crime rate and unemployment has decreased, the majority of the population encourages a judgment. She does not affect the elite at all: her palaces are fortresses, in its areas - silence. But elitist youth organizes their own punitive detachments, which go to a bloody night hunt for civil duty and entertainment. Thus, the moral appearance of the new American is formed.

Civil duty - kill

Judgment Night No. 1

The essence of the first “Judgment Night” was that it is impossible to hide from the fascist regime, even if you confess the ideology of non -participation and non -complication. In this film, a crowd of elite gopniks attacks the seemingly well-fortified house of intellectuals who dared to save some person who these gopniks pursued.

Film lessons: Hope for someone else, distant, but not for you? You will get too.

You hope: you can sit out and in the morning everything will still be-perfectly, quietly, peacefully, with flakes in milk at breakfast, as if there was no bloody night? There will still be no longer in the morning. You are right for yourself that there is no point in acting, because the power is strong, and still nothing will achieve, nothing will change? It will change - for the worse.

Judgment Night No. 2

In the new film, the action is transferred from the rooms of the house blocked by steel shutters to the night streets overwhelmed by violence, where five random people are in the role of driven. In this film - new turns. We will not comment on the next specific dirty tricks of the founding fathers-everything is clear with them. Other thoughts of the film are more interesting. Firstly, it is that the fascist-anti-intelligent-ideology raises the most embittered cattle from the bottom, for whom the right to be creamy given once a year is the only joy of life. Secondly, that permissiveness is corrupted not only by power, but also by the elite that has been fed by her. This is now not about elite youth, as in the first film, but about dads and mothers. It turns out that some of them do not spend the ship night locked up, and in a special night club, where specially hired bandits bring to the slaughter of the defenseless ones, which were caught on the streets or captured in their own houses.

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All these crimes are underway under the banner of the Almighty. One of the night bandits on the mask is drawn "GOD"

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And all these crimes - which is also relevant for our sixth (or how much is it left there?) Parts of land - are created under the banner of the Almighty. One of the night bandits on the mask is drawn "GOD". And the bossy propagandist broadcasts: “Go to the streets - and fulfill your civic duty (that is, kill). And may the Lord be with you. ”

As for the very power, then, ultimately, both parts of the “Judgment Night” indicate that if the power is uncontrolled, then it will inevitably destroy all living things. And they analyze what you can finish if the people suffer any dirty laws of their government, at first seeming not anti -people, but aimed only at restrictions on the freedoms of individual groups of citizens who sincerely sway you. You can finish to play to anything. Someone will object that the "Judgment Night" describes what in the modern world there can be. But in fascist Germany, the Stalinist USSR, China from the time of the cultural revolution, campaign, and the countries of radical Islam were not like that. And the laws and actions of our authorities have already begun to untie the hands of the most black forces that are gaining confidence that they will soon be allowed.

How long is the absurd to real blood? Not long. And the path can be very surrealistic. From Facebook: “Tomorrow, GDP will require children for breakfast and virgins in the pool, Dugin will justify this ideologically, and Glazyev -“ economically ”, the Soviet will vote. And you will joke jokes. ” More: “When they came for Gorgonzola, I was silent, I do not like Gorgonzole. Then they came for octopuses, I was silent, I do not like octopus. Then they came for the capers, I was silent, I do not like capers. And then they came for me. "

Sounds scary. Terribly convincingly.