And all I have seen are the trailers.  Haven't read and write ups or
reviews, etc.  I don't pay attention to critics in choosing to see movies
or not as none of them know what they are talking about!

But if we had a 12hr period where all 'crime' was legal, I'd be headed to
DC...
On May 25, 2013 9:14 PM, "Alexis duprey" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
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> On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Raymond Feist/New ATT <
> [email protected]> wrote:
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>> If anything it's got more in common with Shirley Jackson's The Lottery
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>> Keep in mind, for all their apparent mayhem, the Dasati had a very
>> strictly organized social system with hard and fast rules.
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>> Best, R.E.F.
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>> > "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
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>> > "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
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>> > "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names
>> the streets after them." Bill Vaughan
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>> > "The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil
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