Everyone fusses and frets over how awful it is, but also accepts that Snow and every other living member of the government is blameless. This sense of helplessness and blamelessness is important because it transmutes the horror of the Hunger Games from atrocity to tragedy. No one wants to watch an atrocity, and if you end up seeing one it makes you angry.
But tragedy is one of the oldest forms of entertainment, and seeing one of those makes you feel sad in a morally uplifting sort of way. It suggests change is impossible, reinforcing that sense of helplessness on which the whole thing depends.
I like this idea of atrocity vs tragedy. Ultimately, the gravity of the situation was never fully realized, so it just felt like a bad weekend. This is not a description of any realistic political system. There is no such thing as a govt that has no supporters. Every govt, no matter how apparently hideous, that survives for any length of time, is supported and approved of by some group of people. A govt cannot simply order literally everybody around like slaves on pain of having their tongues cut out, because who, in that scenario, would do the cutting?
The leaders can maybe drive most of their people like slaves with the whip, but what about the man who holds the whip? To him at least they must make some kind of positive appeal.
Rather than the character dynamics or anything like that, I liked the artistic design. Both the capital and its residents felt different but not totally alien.
You could almost see how contemporary design tastes in fashion and architecture changed over time to produce what we see, and that helped ground the film more in reality for me.
I thought it was a brave choice since genre films and TV shows tend to skew towards a mundane style nowadays. It was a risk on screen, even if it was already part of the book Hunger Games, but it ultimately worked and upped my investment in the movie. I agree with Belinkie that Katniss gets off easy.
If not for Rue and that redhead girl, Katniss would have been killed several times over. This is one of the points where the movie is kind of weak compared to the book.
As for the training facility, although the movie only briefly touches upon this point, her light training regimen is a deliberate stratagem, so as not to reveal her abilities to the other competitors. I think in the book she spends this whole period learning how to tie more effective knots, which would have been fairly dull portrayed onscreen.
However, no one says she was telling the truth, she could have been lying to hammer her point home. It does matter that they get to that point though. I think there are a lot of clever things about the third book. I love the way District 13 puts Katniss to work on propaganda, even kidnapping her prep team. I love the climatic scene where she chooses not to kill Snow. Every single person is shattered. It sort of subverts what you expect to happen, which is that Katniss finally blossoms into the powerful woman we always knew she could be.
But I found the ending very moving, with Peeta and Katniss living together in their bombed-out District, trying to heal each other.
Is Peeta going to snap and kill her one day? Is Katniss ever going to escape from the nightmares. To give you an idea of how this is done, here's an excerpt from The Hunger Games via Slate Magazine :. We're on a flat, open stretch of ground. A plain of hard-packed dirt.
Behind the tributes across from me, I can see nothing, indicating either a steep downward slope or even a cliff. To my right lies a lake. To my left and back, sparse piney woods. This is where Haymitch would want me to go. Thanks to the constant noise of TV and the Internet, this is the future of writing.
Yes, there may still be a place for long-form, but the burden of proof has shifted. Now, shorter is better, because it means the reader will actually stay engaged.
The Hunger Games is not a children's book or movie. It's full of bloodshed and adult themes. Like teenage kids battling it to the death as a form of entertainment for a futuristic dystopia, in which the government controls the population through forced sacrifice. If you're a storyteller, this is important. The world is dark and hard and full of pain. But there is still hope. Which is why a story like this is so powerful.
She never emerges unscathed from her battles, but her scars show how that battle was worth fighting. She's an eternal reminder to teenage girls that — if they are angry enough and determined enough — they can break the world around them. Johnson agrees about the impact of promoting emotional, as well as physical, muscle.
Madeleine Deliee writes, teaches, and parents in the Washington, D. She sometimes tweets about mostly geeky stuff at MMDeliee. Change Makers.
Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories. The idea of competition and survival of the fittest is compelling to many. The strong female lead attracts many viewers.
Katniss the main character is portrayed as both a mysterious and strong girl. The movie has both romantic and action scenes which makes the movie exciting for many teenage consumers. I think that the Hunger Games also had a very strong marketing strategy to gain attention for potential viewers causing it to have a major success in the box office. I think part of what makes The Hunger Games so compelling is that is embodies a lot of what adolescents, in this case mostly girls, want out of their lives.
In both the book and the movie she is portrayed as a no-nonsense but also very pretty and very capable teenager who loves her younger sibling and resents her mother for being, in her eyes, useless.
She has an handsome best friend and another attractive guy pining after her but she is just too no-nonsense to notice. As for the dystopian setting itself, I think young adults as a rule are always attracted to rebellion, and what better thing to rebel against than a totalitarian state just as Katniss and her friends do? The obvious evil of The Capital and its cronies provides a very nice and very satisfying outlet of rebellion.
One of the most initial aspects of the book that makes the story so captivating is how it draws you in. However, what captivates them and draws them into the plot, is that she is a normal girl placed in a not-so-normal situation.
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