The purge election year, is the third horror instalment of the popular purge franchise, where a female senator is under threat from the government due to her intentions to prevent the annual purges from taking place, which entail all illegal activity legal for 12 hours.
We open to a panning close up shot of a frame on a wall, distorted and hanging, where we can make out a quote within the frame stating " Welcome to our home", immediately making the receiving audience presume a break in, as the eery wind like sounds, make for a very uncomfortable feeling among viewers as the tension builds.
We then suddenly hear a male voice non diegetically, as he excitedly says that there is one more purge game to play, as we see a close up of a blood soaken floor with an unidentifiable metal object next to it, showing the audience that a sense of gore will be prominent within the film. Finally we then cut to a medium shot of a darkly lit room with the male speaker disguised with a blue mask, as we then see a long shot of a family bloody and tied up in front of him on a sofa, showing the audience that this type of horror film, will be gore more of instead of a paranormal based picture.Finally the male states diegetically "which one of you will survive this years purge?", We then pan into a woman on the sofa in glasses as she's covered in blood and screams. We then suddenly cut to the woman clean and nervous looking as she stands behind a podium where titles appear saying 15 years later, and showing that she is running for president, Through her past ordeal it makes the audience sympathise with her character and know that she is the protagonist of the picture.
We then see multiple shots of her on people television sets across america, where they all nod in agreement with what she is saying , with one man stating that "she is going to make real changes", Through their mise en scene we can see they are poorer and less privileged and that is who the presidential candidate is aiming to impress, As she states that the purge needs to come to an end, Although we see multiple medium shots of business men, who we then presume to be congressmen, state that they need to do something about "this senator", making the audience presume that she is under threat again.
We then cut to multiple shots of scary looking blood dripping masks, with people holding weapons, and passing through streets with weapons, making them seem to posing as a threat towards the senator. Immediately after the purge is announced to start, the senator's body guards are shot down, and the senator's main bodyguard states that they have been betrayed, showing that the two will have to go on the run to maintain their safety throughout the night.
We then see a very disturbing long shot, of three bodies in white night gowns hanging from a tree appearing dead, as a fourth individual in a night gown dances around their floating bodies.We then see a high speed pace of shots of the two either fighting, being tortured or running, as the two finally get picked up by some people on the street, showing the audience that the working class don't want to purge and want to protect the senator at all costs so that they can prevent a future purge from occurring.
We then finally see the senator captured and in church as she is tied up in a white gown, in front of a table of weaponry, and a cathedral full of people, as she seems to be about to be tortured, we then cut to the title of the film, making the audience wonder whether the senator will live or not.
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