The Hunger Games
(Gary Ross, 2012) Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games, a televised fight to the death in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to compete.
Just before
watching this adaptation of Suzanne
Collins’ novel I took the time to properly read the source material and
have an informed view on Gary Ross’
adaptation of the whole thing. Let’s call a whore a whore and get to the truth
that the novel written by Collins is a very good teenage literature that is
well conceived and full of parallels with Reality television, the Olympics, propaganda,
and all the things that make television one of the most evil inventions of men.
However, The Hunger Games isn’t a denunciation
of television or the violence that it often depicts. It is about the involvement
of teenagers and sometimes child in the ways of bloodthirsty governments in
their way to keep the power and its oppression on his people. As subtle as it
can be. Or in the case of the Hunger Games as bold as it can be.
