# Spoil "The Purge" for me **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 7, 2013, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-the-purge-for-me/660415 "2013-06-07T19:27:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-the-purge-for-me/660415/1 "2013-06-07T19:27:37Z")
So I was over reading [this](http://io9.com/the-purge-could-be-this-years-most-hamfisted-political-511836629) review of The Purge. The author pretty much rips it apart, which didn’t surprise me. But then he says that the final scene is “genuinely superb”, which did. I will never in a million years watch the movie, but this made me juuuust curious enough about the ending to start this thread. So how does it end, and why is the ending so good? ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-the-purge-for-me/660415/2 "2013-06-07T20:05:53Z")
“Purge” is the name of his sled. Sorry. Couldn’t resist. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-the-purge-for-me/660415/3 "2013-06-07T20:11:01Z")
It was all just a dream. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-the-purge-for-me/660415/4 "2013-06-07T20:24:21Z")
The entire plot is detailed [here](http://www.themoviespoiler.com/Spoilers/purge.html). I would try to boil that down for you, but it probably wouldn’t be much shorter than that anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-the-purge-for-me/660415/5 "2013-06-07T20:36:18Z")
Huh. I read both the review and the plot synopsis and I think the whole movie from beginning to end is fucking dumb and I don’t get what makes the end so great. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-the-purge-for-me/660415/6 "2013-06-07T20:42:18Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Huh. I read both the review and the plot synopsis and I think the whole movie from beginning to end is fucking dumb and I don’t get what makes the end so great. Me too. How is the ending “genuinely superb”? ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-the-purge-for-me/660415/7 "2013-06-07T20:43:54Z")
From the reviews I read, it sounded to me like that old Star Trek episode where they had “Festival!” ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-the-purge-for-me/660415/8 "2013-06-07T20:48:14Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > From the reviews I read, it sounded to me like that old Star Trek episode where they had “Festival!” [You are not of the body -](http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Archons_%28episode%29) And was exactly what I said the first time I saw a preview for this movie… ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-the-purge-for-me/660415/9 "2013-06-07T20:49:47Z")
She has a penis and was a ghost the whole time. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-the-purge-for-me/660415/10 "2013-06-07T21:08:22Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Me too. How is the ending “genuinely superb”? Just read it - “what a twist”… sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-the-purge-for-me/660415/11 "2013-06-07T21:30:52Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > The entire plot is detailed [here](http://www.themoviespoiler.com/Spoilers/purge.html). I would try to boil that down for you, but it probably wouldn’t be much shorter than that anyway. Hijack: A few years ago, I remember finding sites such as that one for plot descriptions of movies that I didn’t want to bother seeing but for which I wanted to know the twist. Now I find that almost every movie and TV show has a detailed plot description right in Wikipedia, so that’s usually the first place I go. Wikipedia pretty much made those sites obsolete. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-the-purge-for-me/660415/12 "2013-06-07T21:52:30Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Hijack: A few years ago, I remember finding sites such as that one for plot descriptions of movies that I didn’t want to bother seeing but for which I wanted to know the twist. Now I find that almost every movie and TV show has a detailed plot description right in Wikipedia, so that’s usually the first place I go. Wikipedia pretty much made those sites obsolete. I just wish they would add a spoiler tag to the available Wiki editing tools. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-the-purge-for-me/660415/13 "2013-06-07T21:59:05Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Hijack: A few years ago, I remember finding sites such as that one for plot descriptions of movies that I didn’t want to bother seeing but for which I wanted to know the twist. Now I find that almost every movie and TV show has a detailed plot description right in Wikipedia, so that’s usually the first place I go. Wikipedia pretty much made those sites obsolete. I hear ya, but personally I prefer the Movie Spoiler site because the plot description is generally much more detailed where Wikipedia prefers them to be more succinct. If I’m going to spoil a movie that I know I’m not going to watch, I want to get in as much detail as possible. ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-the-purge-for-me/660415/14 "2013-06-07T22:18:54Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Huh. I read both the review and the plot synopsis and I think the whole movie from beginning to end is fucking dumb and I don’t get what makes the end so great. You’re not alone. I’d also love some explanation as to how the purge creates a 1% unemployment as the trailers claim. I doubt it would reduce crime, but I can see the idea behind it, but how does it reduce unemployment. Is the idea that all the poor, unemployed people get killed off? ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-the-purge-for-me/660415/15 "2013-06-07T22:31:12Z")
> [@Ibn\_Warraq](#): > > Is the idea that all the poor, unemployed people get killed off? Sounds like it. In the review I linked at the top, it makes it sound like the Purge is a way for the rich productive people to wipe out all of the useless scroungers. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-the-purge-for-me/660415/16 "2013-06-08T01:13:39Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Me too. How is the ending “genuinely superb”? Uh, the movie _ended,_ guy. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-the-purge-for-me/660415/17 "2013-06-08T05:26:53Z")
Landru, guide us! ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-the-purge-for-me/660415/18 "2013-06-08T06:11:49Z")
Isn’t 1% unemployment bad? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-the-purge-for-me/660415/19 "2013-06-08T09:28:51Z")
I’ll wait for the prequel: _The Binge_. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-the-purge-for-me/660415/20 "2013-06-08T10:40:32Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > Isn’t 1% unemployment bad? As I understand modern economic thinking, yes. A good U3 rate is thought to be somewhere in the 3-4% range. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-the-purge-for-me/660415.md?page=2)