This is my first time doing the purge series but with people from my town
MAN:
Who are you angry at?
Everyone.
Everything.
MAN: What do you do
when you get angry?
I pipe up!
(INHALES DEEPLY)
- (SLAP)
- (GRUNTS)
Fuck my lungs with smog.
Do you have an outlet
to release this anger if you...
- can't get high?
- No.
I want to lash out.
Release this...
this deep fucking hate
I have for everyone,
everything!
- (THUMPING CHEST)
- Just to fucking purge
all this shit that eats me up!
- (MAN PANTING)
- (CLOCK TICKING)
"Purge."
Interesting term.
You may have a chance
to purge soon.
REPORTER: Unemployment rising
across the nation.
REPORTER 2: Stock market down
another 2,000 points
in the largest drop
in its history.
REPORTER 3: A subprime mortgage
crisis worse than 2008.
REPORTER 4: Neighborhoods
across the country
destroyed by
an opioid epidemic.
CROWD: God shed
his grace on thee...
REPORTER 5:
Protests across the nation.
Americans are looking
for a necessary change
in these tumultuous times.
REPORTER 6: Citizens
growing angry as they face
a collapsing economy.
REPORTER 7:
A new party is arising
as a substitute to
the Republicans and Democrats,
calling themselves the New
Founding Fathers of America.
REPORTER 8:
The New Founding Fathers
rising in polls with
the NRA now endorsing them
and supporting them
financially
with large donations
to the NFFA war chest.
REPORTER 9:
Can the NFFA seize control?
Will Americans fall
for their fear mongering?
As your elected president,
with my fellow
New Founding Fathers,
we make this promise.
- We will revive this country.
- (CROWD CHANTING "USA!")
The American dream is dead.
We will do whatever it takes
to let you dream again.
CROWD:
USA! USA!
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Whoa, whoa, whoa
P-P-P-P-Play somethin',
bitch
I'm rallyin' in this bitch
They like, uh-oh
Carryin' on some shit,
they like, uh-oh
You mad 'cause I'm rich,
nigga, uh-oh
Fully loaded clip,
better duck low
I'm rallyin' in this bitch,
they like, uh-oh
- Carryin' on some...
- (TURNS ON TV)
REPORTER 10:
We are now only days from this
controversial experiment,
this night of legalized crime
that people are now
calling the Purge.
And there are protests
all over.
Conflict between
anti-Purge protesters
and Purge supporters broke out
early today in North Carolina.
REPORTER 11: Yes, Susan,
I'm here in Charlotte.
There's been about
20 arrests so far,
and we'll keep you informed
as protests
are continuing.
(DISTANT SIREN WAILING)
LA, the chosen site,
has become the focus
for the entire world.
We have reporters
across the island
who will be giving live updates
for the next several days.
Let's go now to correspondent
Van Jones, who's in Beverley's hills.
VAN: Yes, James. I'm here
outside the Beverley hill Towers,
a high-income housing project,
and I can see citizens are...
Mich, our tower
made the news.
Mich:
Are you serious?
(GROANS) Goddamn it.
(GROANS)
(SIGHS)
Nina. Good morning.
Have you seen Tony?
My sink is leaking again.
Good morning, sweetie.
I'm so sick of this
piece of shit building.
The damn elevator's
down again, too.
As bad as my asthma is, got me
sweating like a fucking snitch.
We need five or six supers
in this raggedy motherfucker.
I'll let him know what's up
if I see him.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome, sweetie.
Hey.
This bullshit experiment
really happening,Wesley?
- Talk to you later, okay?
- All right, sweetie.
The Pope has continued
his condemnation of the Purge.
And France's president,
Lemercier, has called upon...
I'll see you later, bro.
I'm out.
- I'll see you tonight.
- A'ight.
