Its crazy how entertainment and good promotion can do that. I remember how the promotion for Prometheus had me pondering all kinds of questions related to the origins of life.
Still, to have folks thinking Purge laws are real is some damn good marketing. Reminds me of Orson Welles doing War of the Worlds over the radio. Dude had a significant portion of the nation shook.
Welles scares nation - Oct 30, 1938 - HISTORY.com
Perhaps as many as a million radio listeners believed that a real Martian invasion was underway. Panic broke out across the country. In New Jersey, terrified civilians jammed highways seeking to escape the alien marauders. People begged police for gas masks to save them from the toxic gas and asked electric companies to turn off the power so that the Martians wouldn’t see their lights. One woman ran into an Indianapolis church where evening services were being held and yelled, “New York has been destroyed! It’s the end of the world! Go home and prepare to die!”