I waited with pleasant anticipation for days, and then I saw on MBC 2 that The Hunger Games would be shown on Saturday, January 12. Unfortunately, I was on duty. I saw the last half, but it was enough. Although I heard a lot about the movie’s promotions and people discussing it on social networks, I had no idea what it’s all about. My response at the end was, “What a stupid movie.”
They crowned the winner like a prom queen. It is a reality show where the very young, barely out of puberty, are trained like athletes in the art of the kill and then let loose in the forest to kill each other. There are no heroes and there are no villains. Kill and survive for a prize. The theme is not new, but the players are so young, I found it absolutely irresponsible to make a movie of this kind at a time when very young people, not only in the USA but everywhere else, turn to mass murder for the smallest of reasons, as if killing is fair game, and the more you kill, the merrier.
Honestly, what was in my mind while watching the movie was Norway’s Breivik blowing away high school students whose ages were similar to those of the Hunger Games participants. He described in horrific detail how, with blazing guns, teens pleaded for their lives. He shot again those showing signs of life to make sure that everybody is dead. He killed 78; I doubt that the makers of this movie had Norway’s Breivik killing spree in their minds while making this movie. What if those youngsters had a chance to defend themselves and fight back?
Not long after Breivik, Holmes walked into a theater in Colorado and started blowing away people all for the heck, fun, and excitement, and then barely months after, Adam Lanza blew his mother away, went to a school nearby, and blew away 6 adults and 20 toddlers, 6-7 years old. If I am a parent of one of those victims, I will sue Hollywood for these kinds of stupid movies that encourage the young to go out and kill and grow up to be gun-hungry for the game of kill. The freaks and the not-so-freaks join the US military to satisfy their hunger games and a license to kill.
It would be fun, real fun if members of the US Congress choose 5 from the Democrats and 5 from the Republicans in another episode of the Hunger Games and let them loose behind enemy lines in the mountains of Afghanistan or in the heartland of Somalia or better still, to Timbuktu of the troubled Mali; places where the USA continues to commit atrocities. The one to come out alive will be crowned speaker of the house.
How about a “Hunger Games” reality show for the USA’s presidency, where Democrats and Republicans aspiring for the White House are let loose in an arena like true gladiators and fight to the death, where the winner is crowned the USA’s president? That will be fun, but not children forced to kill each other for adults’ entertainment.
o Pinkee Romero Quinzon you are right doc. when i finished watching it i was like i thought...what has happened to our movieworld now???;-(
ReplyDeleteArleen Mae Tolentino-Usman I'm not a fan of this trilogy but the story behind the tournament is better explained in the book. The movie wasn't great in conveying the real message of why they're fighting for survival. It lacked depth in the execution.
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