Headscratchers / The Purge: Anarchy

• The couple talk about telling the husband's sister about the separation - however this brings up some Fridge Logic in the surviveability rate of the Purge. With all the destruction and collateral damage, what are the chances of a random relative or acquaintance surviving the night?
  • There can no real number be given. It does depend on wealth, skin colour, and where they live, including size of the settlement. But in general it can be said: The better off you are, the safer you are.
• It is mentioned on the truck as a plot point that "only the government has access to the city surveillance system". It is not brought up that it is purge night, so technically hacking in is probably legal.
  • This remark is less about the hacking then about the access. Probably the cameras are secured enough so that only the government should have access and in combination with the expensive equipment it is pretty logical to suspect the government.

• If Big Daddy is trying to kill the poor because they (apparently) aren't targeting each other enough, why does he gun down people who are obviously enroute to kill others (the first couple he guns down)?
  • 'cuz he's a jerks
  • It's pretty clear from how he treats the girls that this is not just business to him. Also, we can't be certain those people were out to murder, for all we know they were out to join Carmelo.

• Is Carmelo and his resistance somewhat supporting the Founding Fathers' ideas by attacking during the Purge? Seems to me that it would be more effective to suddenly attack some time after the Purge. The Founding Fathers imply there is little violence (and therefore preparation against) the rest of the year. The wealthy wouldn't be hiding in their bunkers or vacationing, and the military would not be as mobilized as say, the week before the Purge. In addition, the fighters would not have to worry about being harassed by rogue groups of psychos. Chances are they could do a lot more damage by hiding out, looting for useful resources and otherwise preparing DURING the Purge to begin their assault on a particular date. I assume they'd have more communication leeway for plotting with less chance of their plan being foiled by government surveillance, since the government operations appear to change during the night.
  • He's explicitly trying to turn the Purge back upon the wealthy who thought they could control and exploit it. Doing it on Purge night is his point. And it's also worth noting that if he hadn't been flinging around flashbang grenades, his little mini-revolution would have been entirely legal.