Didn't even think about anything I've read when I saw the trailer but I agree the twisted morality of it reminds me of The Lottery. I remember when I first read The Lottery....freaked me out because one of my teachers recommended it but didn't tell me the big reveal. I never really got that vibe from the Dasati probably because the Dasati were so alien in the way they thought it's almost as if they lacked any moral compass. I feel like the whole apeal to things like The Purge and The Lottery are that the characters seem like nice people.
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Raymond Feist/New ATT < [email protected]> wrote: > Not even close, IMHO. > > If anything it's got more in common with Shirley Jackson's The Lottery > than anything else that springs to mind. > > Keep in mind, for all their apparent mayhem, the Dasati had a very > strictly organized social system with hard and fast rules. > > Best, R.E.F. > > On May 25, 2013, at 9:50 AM, Nick Andrews <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Spoiler space........ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Has anyone seen the previews for the movie The Purge coming out soon? > Is it just me or, besides being a great plot concept, is it a fairly > blatant ripoff of the Dasati worlds and the purges or what? > > > > -- > > Nick A > > > > "You know what I wish? I wish that all the scum of the world had but a > single throat, and I had my hands about it..." Rorschach, 1975 > > > > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."- Benjamin Franklin, Historical > Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 > > > > "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the > streets after them." Bill Vaughan > > > > "The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." > Plato > > > >
