Saturday, March 31, 2012
The Hunger Games
I cheated a little bit and watched The Hunger Games today instead of tomorrow since I have work every Sunday. It was great! I haven't read the book so I think I missed out on a lot of the little details that I would have noticed otherwise. Plus I was slightly confused about the background of the story and so I had to keep whispering to everybody during the movie. I'm sure they can all attest to my annoying comments (which kept going all two and a half hours)! I found the plot to be very interesting and extremely disturbing. After the movie, we had a philosophical discussion debating whether or not people would actually allow the publicized slaughter of children if the government sponsored it. I certainly hope not, but you never know. There are some crazy people out there. One thing I definitely did enjoy was Gale. Beautiful man. I would highly recommend this movie to everyone!
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I went with Gwen to watch the Hunger Games a day early as well since we work together on Sunday and it was definitely one of the highlights of my week. I read the first book for the Humanities Scholars book club last quarter and immediately found myself in love - like many other readers. Over spring break I finished the entire series and was anticipating the release of the movie. Of course, there were a few minute details of the book that didn't make it onto the big screen but that's to be expected. Aside from that, I think the directors did a great job of interpreting Collins' story, although people like Gwen who hadn't read the book wouldn't know that the story is actually told from Katniss's point of view and not the Capital's. In our discussion Gwen mentioned, I think we could all agree that the brutality of the story could have been portrayed a little more (sacrificing the PG-13) since that was such an important factor of the storyline. The government of Panem actually sanctioned and forced the slaughter of innocent children for the "misdeeds" of the past, and I think for people who hadn't read the book previous to seeing the movie it would have been more impactful to understand the full scale of the atrocities the Capital supported.
ReplyDeleteHunger Games is such a great movie that we went to theater to watch it twice! And I have already started readying the novels. The story is so scaring but easy to attract audiences. Everyone was holding their breath for Katniss and Peeta. I cant imagine what I would be if I was in the Hunger Games. Cant wait for the second one.By the way, everyone is crazy about Josh now. I cant deny he is soooo cuteeeeeeee!!
ReplyDeleteI went to see the Hunger games, once again and it was so good. I loved it 100% and it was pretty close to the book. I could watch this all the time. P.S. no lie. Josh Hutcherson is pretty cute. The actors were great and I was very happy about every single one of them. It's just sooooo addicting.
ReplyDeleteWatching the Hunger Games with my roommates for a Humanities event was certainly a fun affair. The movie displays both beautiful and grotesque sentiments in this battle-to-death, one-man-left-standing story. As Gwen noted, we discussed the possibility of a similar event happening in real life. In that event I would be largely disappointed in mankind, the cruel and inhumane act of killing children for power seems to be one of the most unjust acts to happen. However, it is this element that makes the story of The Hunger Games so important. There is poverty, child slavery, and war-torn government issues all across the world. It is this problem that we must combat so that something like this never occurs.
ReplyDeleteThe Hunger Games was a very good film, and after reading the book for the Humanities Scholars book club, it was interesting to get to see how the movie compared to the film. Overall, it was a faithful adaptation of the book, and was very well done. I enjoyed getting to read the book as part of the book club and get to see it as a film not long after.
ReplyDeleteThe Hunger Games is an amazingly complex and futuristic book which translated beautifully into film. The film was extremely amazing and I was afraid to blink in case I missed something. I honestly have to say that I love the book and the movie both, and that Jennifer Lawrence is an amazing actrice.
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