Those foreign purgers:
Were you happy when they mowed down those foreign purgers?
shareThat aspect of the movie was kind of cool.
The idea of tourists coming to America solely to purge like the Americans do was a nice little nugget.
Also, their Russian was kind of OK, much better than usual in US movies, and they actually said something meaningful, not the usual бла-бла-бла. Liked that they had Russians drenched in American symbols a lot.
shareBut they are killing people. If they go back to their own country, won't they be prosecuted for murder even if it was legal in the USA?
shareMost likely. At least thats how the law works in scandinavian countries like Sweden, Norway etc. You committ a serious crime like rape, murder etc...you can be tried in court even if the crime was committed in another country by a foreginer against a foreigner. Doesnt matter. In Sweden we even had cases like that.
shareGermany too.
Willkommen im Zeitalter des Trump!
There can only be a murder or rape case against you if there is any shred of evidence.
If ISIS members can return from Syria to Sweden and live free then people who traveled to USA ahead of the Purge day can sure as hell too.
But they were wearing masks, yes their faces were shown when being interviewed at the airport, but there'd be no way to prove they did anything since so many people kill/are killed that night legally, so I bet they don't even bother with autopsies.
shareIt was Purge night, all crime was legal. I doubt they'd be arrested.
I don't give a f*@K about a troll who doesn't pay for his opinion telling me how to review movies.
Interesting question, actually. Something that is legal in one country but illegal at home? What does the law say? I have to assume that the laws of the country where the "crime" is committed will be the deciding factor. In this case, our purging tourists should get away with it.
True Self is righteous. It's a conspiracy to portray Man as a savage that needs taming and policing.
No expert here, but usually its the laws of the country that you are currently in. If you go to another country and break their laws, they will certainly prosecute you for that. If I am an American visiting Canada, I have to follow all their laws regarding traffic and gun rights and drug use. If you commit a serious crime like murder and flee back to your home country, the foreign government will usually work with your government to extradite you back to their country to be prosecuted.
Same works the other way, as far as I can see. Plenty of US citizens between 18 and 21 go to Canada to legally drink and the US government isnt prosecuting them for that. Same thing with going to Amsterdam to smoke weed. I think the reason why is that most laws apply to geographic areas that the local governments agree to enforce. Arizona agrees to enforce the drinking age for anyone within its geographic jurisdiction, rather than enforcing it for any Arizona resident regardless of where they currently are.
Not sure how the Purge would factor into this though. I'm guessing most countries would probably put their own regulations on what citizens can do and whether or not they can leave the country to participate in the Purge.
Yes, the laws of that land would apply. One thing the foreign government can do is making specific laws for it's citizens, banning them form participating in the Purge (like they've done in Europe, making laws to ban people from traveling abroad for military training or joining ISIS), but that's quite unlikely because the Purge would not have any negative impact on home-country; on the contrary, all negative energies would be channeled into the Purge, making it perhaps more peaceful at home.
True Self is righteous. It's a conspiracy to portray Man as a savage that needs taming and policing.