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Reviews Comments: Societal Commentary. The Hunger Games film/book review by quiet thinker
The writing quality of the books leaves much to be desired—it seems to be designed for middle-schoolers.
According to my friend, the story line was predictable from the very beginning.
However, I went to see the movie and was pleasantly surprised. The Hunger Games is one series where just watching the movies would almost be better than reading the books. While the author may not have intended it, the underlying theme that came across to me was a critique against our current society. Especially in the movie. Watching the relationship between Peeta and Katniss develop was painful because you realized how fake it was. It made me wonder about the other 'reality' TV shows we watch on a regular basis. The whole inanity of it all was much more apparent in the movie than the book and I enjoyed it for that.
While there's definitely things to be critical about, I enjoyed the commentary, whether or not it was intended to be such.
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To win 20+ other people had to die, how can you just win and forget all that?
When you're never forced to kill anyone who isn't portrayed as an asshole.What I'm saying is if they left it between Katniss and Rue she would sit there until they physically actually killed one of them, which wouldn't be a good audience finale. She'd even defend Rue against threats.
Imagine what would happen if gladiators could just decide not to fight each other and the empire couldn't do anything about it. "Remind me why we're trying to kill each other."