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A parallel universe: Humankind has lost its natural roots and has
become a genetically engineered race, humans are created in labs, not in
wombs, and their brains are programmed to fulfill their designated jobs -
and for two reasons: 1) to fight unemployment - if everybody has his or
her designated job according to a masterplan, and is trained for it from
before birth, how can anybody become unemployed. And 2) to ensure
happiness. Everybody's employed, so everybody's happy, right? And since
everybody's programmed for his task in life, nobody will have unreasonable
ambitions and the like. Oh, and since happiness is all-important to the
gouvernment, emotions like love are expressly forbidden - as is
questioning authority and the like. All that said, there is of course,
dissent, an underground organisation called The Strays, a group
that rejects the gouvernment-ordered artificial happiness - and thus the
gouvernment hunts them down like dogs. Layla (Sarah Breen) has been
designated to be a sex worker, doing porn on a BDSM website, and she has
never questioned this (or anything much) has always thought she leads a
happy life - until one day during a session, she realizes she can't
perform anymore, not so much mentally but physically, and something is
soon tearing her down. Eventually, she is arrested and learns that she has
been hooked up with a drug by her secret lover Peta (Meda Royall), a drug
Peta has told her is a aphrodisiak, but actually it's going to kill her in
only a few hours time if she doesn't get more or treatment. The police
refuse to offer her either, because Peta is actually a Stray-leader, and
Layla is supposed to track her down for the police - since her life
depends on it. So with her health rapidly deteriorating from withdrawal
symptoms, Layla is thrown back onto the street to find Peta - though Layla
hasn't got the first idea how. When Layla is literally on the verge of
dying though, Peta picks her up and gives her a fix - but this one doesn't
come for free: Peta wants to use Layla as her hitwoman, as a sort of
undercover prostitute supposed to drug influential men into submission.
Layla, who has never taken any sides, politically, can't, and soon she's
on the run from both the police and Peta, but eventually, she learns a bit
more about the Strays when spending a night at a Stray comedy, and she is
tricked by a TV producer (Michael F Cahill), whom she has actually saved
from Peta's drugs - and after being made a monster in one of his shows,
she ends up back in an arrest cell, one of those where people are made
ready to donate organs. But instead of being cut up for the sake of
others, she's brought to the head of the facility - Peta ... Purge
tells a very fascinating dystopian story the low budget way: So don't
expect any big action setpieces, flashy CGI interludes, lavish sets and
locations and the like. Instead Purge concentrates on the story as
such, on creating a world of its own based on (sci-fi-)logic, and on
characters. This is helped by camerawork that might seem a bit too flashy
at times, but more often emphasizes on the emotions of film's lead
character, her growing paranoia and withdrawal symptoms, to life quite
beautifully. Add to this some really nice twists and turns and a thought
through surprise ending, and you've got yourself a pretty good movie!
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