Obscurity, Violence, And Suspense In The Movie 'The Purge'

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Terror Within Us
The movie The Purge is built on suspense from not knowing who is going to kill you or who is behind you. The obscurity is not knowing if the people who are following the guy that was let in the house also came in or not. In the horror genre they uses the sublime theory of Burke by building the obscurity, violence, and suspense on the audience. In every scene one of this items are played out and create people to think of ideas that can happen.
The suspense of the movie starts when Charlie sees on one of the cameras that a stranger is running down there driveway and yelling for help. The son unarms the house to the stranger that’s when the father and mother run down stairs to see what was happening and to arm the house again. …show more content…

That scene shows how violent the movie is going to be and how the suspense is going to build up. When the people are starring into the camera the whole family is scared and that’s when the mother and father start to look for the intruder that is inside the house. When they are looking for the person, the other group of people that is outside start to come inside the house through the windows opening the doors. Once they are inside the house it seems like they are playing hide and seek, but when they find the people they are looking for they kill them. In the whole movie everyone is hiding and trying not to get caught so they won’t …show more content…

When the audience keeps jumping to ideas it makes the movie very intersecting because everyone has different ideas of who can be under the mask and what is their motive of purging. So when the end of the movie it ends of being the neighbors because they hate how this family lives and how perfect their life’s are. They kill the father at the end and are about to kill the mother but the guy the little boy help saves her and the family. At the end when the man that was save comes out again makes the viewers wonder where he was through the whole movie. It gives the movie a different kind of twist to the movie, because he only appears couple of times in the movie, and hi saving the family is like thanking them for saving him from being killed.
It has them wonder was he shot or killed, but there is this scene when the boy had built this remote car with a camera and with that he helps the guy hide in secret place. Then from there the guy doesn’t come out into the end. The boy keeps him saved and when he is hiding, it makes people wonder if he is going to get caught or not. Neither the family nor the group of people know where the guy is at. The family does not want anything to happen so they try to find the guy so the individuals can leave without harming their family. But they can’t seem to find him at

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