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(released as The First Purge in 2018) is the fourth installment and chronological prequel to the The Purge film series . Directed by Gerard McMurray, the film shifts the franchise's focus from broad home-invasion horror to a grounded, politically charged action-drama that explores the racial and systemic origins of the annual lawless night . Plot and Origin Story

Set in 2017, the film depicts a United States in the midst of a massive economic and social collapse. A new political party, the New Founding Fathers of America (NFFA), rises to power and proposes a radical sociological theory to reduce crime: for 12 hours once a year, all acts of violence (including murder) will be legal. la primera purga